Atheism on Trial

“Atheists reject Religion because they secretly embrace the idea that death defeats karma.”

- Xenocrates

here’s nothing more profoundly silly than advocating disbelief in possible phenomena simply because they cannot be logically quantified. There’re a many things wrong with this ideology and it is inextricably bound to the innate arrogance of mankind. We’re so dangerously confident about our logic that we are often tempted to think it is fool proof. It’s this God complex that we’ve developed along the way that seems to inherently blind us to our ignorance. In fact, most Atheists are a perfect exemplification of this. They’re the type of people who’ve only proven a few things to be false, or have offered a rational explanation for a number of things and like a kid who solved his first math problem, went on a problem solving binge to reason away all of the vacuous things that have plagued humanity. Then, in a desperate attempt to validate their arrogance, they go around the world picking fights with silly theists who can’t prove left from right, like a bully who only picks fights with weaklings. Now I know that religion has its issues (heck, I dedicated four posts solely to tearing apart the false teachnigs in Christianity). However, atheism often makes all the same mistakes that religion does. This one is dedicated to all the people out there who believe that they’re so right that they can’t possibly be wrong.

The True Nature of God

“God is the only being in the universe having any fun.”

- Xenocrates

In the previous post, I examined logical proof for the existence of some God. Today I will examine the nature of that God. One of the key sore points with most theists is that their definition of God contradicts their understanding of the universe. Needless to say, this gives most atheists fuel for their views, and makes most theists easy picking. Theists, particularly Christians, believe in the classical definition of God which are categorically false or self contradicting. It is by this that it becomes clear that most theists either don’t know what they believe in, or more likely, don’t understand what they believe in. A curious question can be asked from this point:

Is a belief, even if logically flawed, still transmutable to the correct idea on which it is based, or is belief bound to the idea on which it holds, even if it is an incorrect version of the original idea?

The Mechanized Universe

“The Universe always unfolds exactly as it should.” 

- Xenocrates 

Have you ever contemplated the existence of a God?

Most people believe in some God they can’t even define. Yet others are willing to believe so blindly that they are easily fooled and led to believe in virtually anything their gullible minds are capable of absorbing. The trouble with belief systems is that they rely on the believer to have faith - which is simultaneously our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. Faith is a form of hope based on unsubstantiated evidence - that’s why it’s not without a sense of deception. As such, any system of belief that requires faith for solubility, is an intrinsically dangerous belief. Because it is through these unprovable systems of belief that peoples have been oppressed and / or slaughtered - all for an idea for which people cannot substantiate.

I do not subscribe to blind faith based religion. In fact, if anything, I subscribe to a sustainable philosophical way of life. When the ideology becomes bogged down with the inexplicable specificity of religion, then it looses its philosophical meaning and becomes more about the rituals than the philosophical ideology. It doesn’t matter what labels people choose to use for religion. At the end of the day, they all boil down to the same thing - worship of the great unknown. Men have always worshipped the unknown. We’ve all been hard wired to subscribe to this idea through some genetic permutation, which no doubt is a part of the grand design. It is that grand design that fascinates me, and which led to my first truly deep philosophical epiphany:

We live in a Mechanised Universe.