Critical thinking, the original sin.
IT IS MY AIM TO PROMOTE CRITICAL THINKING, GET MAD IF YOU WANT, IT JUST MEANS YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT IT.
DANCING IN THE SPIRIT! A CELEBRATION OF SELF!
Ever since i was little i watched pentecostals dance about "in the spirit." This is nothing that i have ever gotten into myself mostly because i was too embarrassed to do it (giving into the flesh and all that.) As i aged i watched many people from many different churches "dance in the spirit" and most of it seemed fake or showy at best. in the video below (1) I could name at least 6 dance moves, growing up it was mostly jigs based on a persons individual physical ability, as time went on tho it became acceptable to allow "interpretive dance" into "individual religious celebrations" (dancing in the spirit.) Getting the blood pumping during these "celebrations" cause all kinds of crazy stuff to switch on in your body. any high school kid taking a biology class can tell you about the effects exercise can have on the brain. getting all amped up in church makes you more susceptible to what is coming over the pulpit. I will admit, while growing up it looked as though my fellow church goers were smitten by christ himself and filled with the holy spirit to the point that they just couldn't hold it in any longer. As an adult i look at them and see precisely how self serving it all is, they are saying with their bodies that they are better christians than the rest of the people in the room because they have more jesus in them.
THE BLOODLUST OF CHRISTIANS!
This video brings me to the next part. Christians all throughout history have taken part in some of the most bloody endeavors to convert the word and bring the truth of jesus by force to the ignorant masses. psychology today (2) writes, "Nevertheless, just as it would be wrong to simplistically attribute the violence entirely to religion, it would be similarly inappropriate to deny the obvious religious connection. Any objective assessment, not just of these events but of religion itself, must seriously ponder the chain of causation that so often leads from religion to irrational violence." Most of the sermons that are going out to the public right now are laced heavily with "voting for the godless Obama is a sin" rhetoric. It is hard for the categorically undereducated and intolerant christian masses (4) to pick the pieces of truth out of irrational arguments like this especially when those arguments are backed by the almighty tv spin machine (5). Religion flatly states that you must believe the TRUTH (that is subjective to whom is speaking at the time) and if you don't you will DIE / be eternally punished. Posing ultimatums like this, especially to children, as choices are infact not choices at all. of course none of us want to die. but die all we heathens will, if we do not obey the one true god. (Again this is subjective to whom is speaking at the time.) As of 2011 there are upwards of 2000 deities being worshipped on this earth, and all of their followers believe that they have the golden ticket to heaven. You better believe it too, or die! But is there is a way to be good without god? Yes, yes there is. Humanism, read on.
HUMANISM, LIFE AFTER THEOLOGY!
In the end of it all. it harms no one to be kind to one another or maintain a "pay it forward" attitude in life. Humanism, in my opinion, is the next logical step of atheism. It takes all the good in the bible, removes the magic, bases actions in reason and sound science and makes the world a better place. psychology today writes (3) "But more than ever, many now achieve these ends without institutions or beliefs grounded in supernatural theology, by instead utilizing humanist organizations, secular institutions, or other means to fill such needs. These people find peace, mindfulness, goodwill, community, ethics, perspective, and culture without the assistance of theology or religious institutions. These people are post-theological, and many of them are humanists." Humanism is all the church without the blood, hatred, venom, bigotry,violence, exclusion and fear. i feel that teaching others, children especially so, that being awesome to each other is a far better thing than god will kill you and you will burn forever if you make him sad.
Take some time and think about your world view. Try to suspend you natural susceptibility to belief perseverance and inherent confirmation bias(6) and THINK for 30 minutes or so about your life and the contributions you have made to society, are you honestly making this world a better place by doing the things you do? i get asked all the time, what if you are wrong and there is a god! The answer is easy, I will burn in hell. Me, just me. and the world will ultimately be a better place for having me in it because i gave of myself to help others without any thought of reward.. When i ask the reverse question tho, what if your life long endeavor to please the wish granting zombie sky jew is in vain? what will you have done to make this world a better place? Do you want to count preaching exclusion hatred, venom and bigotry? Voting against human rights? perpetuating lies and class warfare? This is where i usually lose my audience... Inherently good people don't like being called bad people, it upsets them. Being faced with the idea that while trying to live a good sinless life they ended up living a selfish and self serving one is shattering to most and causes them to have an "intense" reaction that usually involves cursing and sometimes hitting.
Be smarter than the generation before, embrace intelligence, reason and sound science over fantasy and bigotry. It is wrong for us to use religion to justify bad behavior and it is time to stop.
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