A girl once asked why I was irreligious. I can’t remember exactly how that question was asked, but I remember my answer.
I admitted I didn’t know everything. I admitted that there have been a lot of questions and personal experiences I didn’t have answers to, that even science cannot explain. But that I was very firm in my belief that religion’s nothing but a control tool. That I didn’t buy into it at all.
Religion makes no sense.
This person laughed at and made fun of me as she thought I was a fool.
Someone reads just one book which they have refused to question even when there are a lot of absurdities therein that you can only accept because you’ve refused to be logical.
And another has decided to question everything, be constantly curious and look for answers.
Who is the fool?
I prefer to refer to myself as being irreligious rather than an atheist. If you look around you, you’d see atheists are as delusional as their religious counterparts. They steadfastly hold on to their beliefs, they’re VERY dogmatic and befuddled by the very same dogmatism they think they stand against, they believe it’s their own idea that’s superior to anyone else’s.
I remember someone, the first atheist I knew actually, who was angry with me the first time I indirectly admitted atheism wasn’t entirely for me. He needed me to be somewhere specific. Was I a theist or an atheist? He was very condescending towards me, the way atheists are known to be very condescending to anyone who doesn’t share in their black and white belief. If you admit to still being curious, they snicker at you and call you a fool, a coward. They have so much in common with religiosity that at the end of the day, they’re just as delusional as the religious folks they condemn everyday. Atheists are not curious, and I’m getting over my shock that they can actually be very dumb, short-sighted and not open-minded at all. There’s too much stagnant murky water in their minds and it makes them smell.
The only difference is they haven’t started killing YET, like their religious counterparts. If they have a systemic backing, they also would.
Everyone forgets that life isn’t black and white.
That the universe hasn’t survived all these while by being rigid, by holding on to one thing and refusing to move, to expand, to be curious. That nature abhors stagnancy.
And so while I hold on to the obvious fact that religion is just a control tool for the masses, I have been very curious to know more. I have refused to take a side. The theists are foolish and sensible at the same time, the atheists are fools and sensible at the same time. Because, remember once again, that life is too complex to be black and white. It’s laziness that make us want to split everything into those two colours, when there are so many other colours and shades of colours in existence.
There must be something connecting the two. There must be something somewhere I’m yet to find out.
I’ve been reading Osho and Dan Brown for some time.
I am still confused.
I still don’t have all the answers.
But that’s better than being scammed for the whole of my lifetime by religion, and living in fear.
And that’s better than holding on to vehemently and blindly disagreeing that something doesn’t exist, and becoming dogmatic while at it.
I’ve read about the war history between science and religion and I’m confused on how Dan Brown is trying to reconcile the two.
But if there’s one thing I know, it is that science would end the reigning era of Abrahamic religions; especially Christianity. Christianity will last longest and it’s the most dangerous. The rest are too obvious and would finish themselves by themselves, while Christianity understands the power of being subtle and controlling minds.
There are lots of things in the Bible that science has disproved. For example, the sexist book says women would give birth in pains. And science is looking at making sure babies can be made in pods. No wonder religion keeps sabotaging scientific innovations. We would have gone past where we are at the moment but for the religious sabotages.
The day science exposes they’ve found the answer to immortality, religion will crash.
But I predict science will, one day, generally be used to oppress and control the human race just like religion, and it’s even already started on a small scale. Because almost everyone who is anti-religion is still being religious, set in their ways, dogmatic, rigid, never flexible and allowing for different perspectives. These are ingredients for inequality, and subsequent oppression of others.
I’m just randomly drafting this because where I live, every Sunday, little children are gathered by my window and told over and over how they’re dirty sinful little bastids.
And that someone somewhere loves their little sinful selves.
And that is simply just so wrong.
What business do children have with screaming “I am a sinner, forgive me”?
Children should be left alone.
They shouldn’t even be given scientific books or anything. But because of the forceful pervasion of religion, they should know there are many other choices asides what they’re being told. Their curiosity should be encouraged. That’s all we need to do.
The human race would evolve faster that way.
Rather than staying in a box and convincing others to join us in our own boxes.
When everyone could be roaming freely on the vast field and making so many discoveries for eternity.
The fear of the unknown is driving everybody crazy.
Nobody knows everything, and that’s okay.
At the end of the day, I suppose the problem is neither atheism nor theism. The problem isn’t about God or anything. We’re not even sure if that entity exists or not.
The problem is among we, the human race. We just find others to use as excuses and what better scapegoats to use than entities we can’t see, like the Devil and Jesus and Angels and Demons.
While we are the problem all along.
The problem has never been about our beliefs or whatever we believe in.
I don’t think I would have issues with religion if I’m not forced to believe in it, and severely punished if I don’t. Either here or in some after-life.
I wouldn’t have any issue with any belief that doesn’t seek to control me, burn me, oppress me, and call me a dirty sinner and a fool.
So you see? The problem all along has been human’s affinity for power, for wickedness, for greed, for hatred, for constantly seeking to overpower the other. It’s been about fighting for superiority of beliefs so we could use that superiority to oppress others.
I believe in this, I have this organ, my skin colour is this, therefore I proclaim I am better than you and I have the right to break you. The extent of human’s stupidity can never be comprehended.
We’re no more in the wild.
Drop that animalistic instinct.
We don’t need to overpower the others anymore.
We have everything we need to really start being human.
Written by Sisí Afrika.
