Religious Tactic’s That Will Not Work On Me

Even though I accept the label of Atheist / Anti Theist there are aspects where I differ from fundamentalist Atheist’s or Anti Theist’s.  I want to stress that where I differ from them is due entirely to what I have experienced in my life.

That being said I want to make it very clear that I see no evidence or reason to believe any God exists.  To put it simply a more advanced / evolved Alien race simply is Not a God.  I don’t care what Ancient people may have thought.

What I want to cover here is a small list of the Religious Tactic’s that simply will not work with me.  I will explain with each why that tactic will not work.

1. Scare Tactic’s / Threats of Hell – The reason this will not work with me is I refuse to be manipulated / intimidated by anyone.  Especially someone that wants to claim to be giving a message of Love.  If your message is so loving how about giving it without the threats of what will happen to me if I don’t Think as you demand.

2. Thought Crime – This connects to the first one in some ways but it is also different in itself.  No one has the right to try and dictate what Thoughts I have.  Telling me I must believe in your Jesus is trying to dictate my thoughts.  My thoughts are my own.  If i wish to share them that is my choice but Freedom of Thought must be maintained otherwise there can be no Freewill at all!

3.  Claims of Jesus Christ – I’m just going to say this flat out for all Christian’s.  There is No Historical Evidence supporting the existence of a Jesus Christ.  Not One Historian, Philosopher or even Satirist from the alleged time of this Jesus wrote a single word about him.

To make matters even worse for the Jesus claims Christian Fraud in the 2nd & 3rd century AD is not only not evidence of your Jesus but hurts your credibility.  The truth of the matter is no Scholar from as early as the 1800′s considered Jesus Christ to be a Historical figure.

4. The bible is the Inspired word of God – This is something I hear that must be an absolute joke.  The creation myth was originally a Sumerian story not an Israelite one.  The Flood Story was also Sumerian.  It was the Epic Of Gilgamesh.  While the Ten Commandments were stolen from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.  Spell 125.  The wording was changed slightly but the basic premise was there.

While the New Testament was completely made up by Christian’s after the 3rd Century AD.  Which By The Way was about the same time the City of Nazareth first appeared.

5.  Faith – Frankly if all you have is telling me, “It’s a matter of Faith” you can really save your breath.  When I hear Faith what I think of is Delusional Disorder.  Because the way Delusional Disorder is defined fits Faith perfectly.

Delusional Disorder is – A Firm belief or conviction in something despite evidence to the contrary.

When that fits what you believe about Invisible, Sadistic, God Men and you have nothing else just admit it You Have Nothing.  It is ok to not know it all.  Scientists admit all the time, “We don’t know it all.”

This isn’t a problem it only means you must keep your mind open to new Evidence.  Not close your mind to anything that isn’t in an ancient book of Death & Scribblings.

I am not opposed to the idea of a consciousness behind the universe.  However this would no more be making demands on us then we would go making demands on Inchworms.

If you are yelling at inchworms that they aren’t living up to your standard you really need a visit from the men in the white coats.