Atheist Manifesto
A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth.
-Wikipedia
Once upon a time humans did not understand the world around them or the strange creatures in it. They had no real understanding of the complex forces governing the universe or their place in the grand scheme of the cosmos. In time we invented philosophy, spirituality, and science so that we may arm ourselves with a means of answering at least some of these questions and save us from the fear of the unknown. For all of the deep questions that plague us such ‘what is the meaning of life’, because there is no answer, we have allowed ourselves to be lied to and deceived by clothed old men who had a fantasy and were kind enough to share it with anyone who would listen. Belief derives its power from faith with derives its power from ignorance which derives its power from fear. There was a great deal of fear in the beginning, and so the elites who were put in charge of religion took advantage of it and built the biggest temples, sacrificed lots of virgins, and spread the fear and ignorance through time and space, and they made sure to give us a good reason to stay in check
This is by no means meant to be an attack on any particular religion, rather, its an attack on ALL religions. In a nuclear age where any wacko with a nuke can point at any group and call them an enemy of God no one can truly call themselves truly safe.
The religious people cannot be challenged, their belief requires absolutely no proof and is in the U.S. defended by the Constitution.
Throughout time forward thinking men like Galileo and Copernicus indirectly challenged religion by posing some odd questions and invariably they were encoraged to ‘shut up’.
It is time for the non-believers to assert themselves and reassume dominion over the insane who allowed themselves to be ruled by their superstitions and emotions. The religious have the conceit to believe that because they believe in their higher power they are superior to a ‘heathen’, I suggest that someone who has beliefs based in reason and logic is superior to someone who does not. I do not want a leader who talks to God and believes in a talking snake and that the Earth is 6000 years old and that humans and dinosaurs lived together. I don’t believe that there was a Garden of Eden, or that it was in Missouri (which Mormons believe), and anyone who does is either stupid or crazy. There is hope for us non-believers (a term which was invented by the wackos and is a misnomer because it suggests that anyone who doesn’t believe in God has no legitimate right to belief anything, which is nonsense) as we constitute 15% of the population of the U.S. , a significant minority in this country larger than Blacks, Jews, or NRA members.
No religion 15%
African Americans 12%
Asian 5%
Homosexual 1.51%
Judaism 1.2%
We as a people have the right, power, and duty to lobby congress so that we may elect leaders who will not be basing the most important issues facing our nation (or other nations in the case of our foreign policy) on the whims of any kind of fictional creature.
As Bill Maher said, maybe an atheist president may be less willing to send men off to be killed in a pointless war if he didn’t believe they would go to a paradise when they died.
If you are an atheist and you are tired of being preached to, lectured to, judged, and called absent of morals by these hypocrites then take up the cause and join me. This is the atheist manifesto, we are many, we are growing, and we will not be told to ‘shut up’ or have ‘faith’ in a dated system invented by some middle eastern shepherds 6000 years ago any longer.
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Originally Posted by Maraud
, if you're gonna pidgeon-hole me into some blanket term Ill label with something: ass pirate.
