Tuesday, July 6, 2010

What happen to these people???????

This was written by an atheist from an article in Malaysia Today. Another urgent prayer needs so that these group of people will repent!

Check this out:
http://www.malaysia-today.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32659:switch-jew-for-muslim-and-it-would-remain-the-same&catid=20:no-holds-barred&Itemid=100087

" I can't believe there are some people who still choose to base their decisions on fairy-tale books like the Bible, Torah and Koran over their naturally-evolved brains.

If anyone accuses me of attacking religions, let me say this - Yes I am, and I am not sorry about it. If there are people who prefer to use irrationality , I have the right to employ basic rationality.

Several reasons why:
1. These so called holy books are not holy at all - they are more graphic and violent than any pornographic materials that are being condemned for "corrupting minds". One can just flip to any page in any of these holy books and chances are one can find sanctioned, recurring themes of women persecution, absurdity, perverted sexual stories, unjustified racism, genocides et cetera - than makes one wonder why these themes are allowed in the first place if the main intent of making these books holy to supposedly "lead and educate the masses". Also, remember that scripture-writing is no more than a process of gathering hearsays and introducing one's bias into the process. The Old Testament applies to Jews only (Christians please don't kid yourself), Jesus's teaching in New Testament is for Jews only (it's Paul who took matter into his own hands and give the false perception to non-Jews that they are covered by Jesus's sacrifice insurance - surprised now?), and I won't talk about Koran because I have yet to finish the book (or, lest that I risk my head for talking about Islam)

2. Religions advocates faith, and faith is all about believing in things in irrational manner. And of course, using the "Eddington Concession" method, one can employ irrationality and selective quote mining to justify any irrational thoughts and actions, like "jihad" and "crusades" and whatnot. And put this in the hands of people who wields political power, how worse can it get?

3/ Religions are made by men - they are evolutionary products of man's interaction and attempts to understand the world. Science has again and again trumped religions, and it is high time that rationality and reasonings being used to understand the world, and not using "awe" and "fear". I dislike the statement "to put the fear of God" because why would a Creator (if it exists, though I can't find any reasons to do so" want to scare its own creations? I'd rather have a loving, earthly father whom I can see than a supposedly omniscient and omnipotent, unseed "Father" God who takes so much pain to hide him/it-self.

Finally -

4. Seriously, do one truly require God, or some sort of divine messages as source of morality? Morality, in its most rudimentary form, is a mixture of one's personal view of the world, and shaped by its interaction with the world. If this is too complex to understand, study this analogy - We are like apples, but there are red apples, green apples, apples that are suitable for making pies, and apples that grow well in wild forests, or even apples that aren't suitable for making ciders. Fitting in morality in the apples' analogy is akin to saying that God-sourced morality can be compared as to saying "I don't like red apples simply because I hate the color red and so I being the sweet delicious green apple is better than you because I think that my Creator favors green color to red color", as well as making reasonable comparison as to saying that interaction-sourced morality equals as saying "we are all different types of apples, but we all have our own uses, and no apple is above another apple, and we are all here as results of billion of years' interaction through evolutionary means, so let us be nice to each other because if one of us is not here then all us will not be here". Which of course, brings us to the topic of "evolution vs there-must-be-a-Creator-and-my-Creator-kicks-your-Creator's-ass", but I'll not venture there as this is a mighty wide digression.

Anyway, all I'm saying that religions are man-made products and religions insult our intelligence, no matter how much basic morality can one find in these holy books because holy books are no more than an Amway catalog trying to cheat you of your money and life and it takes irrational faith to believe in these books to create self-deceiving perception that holy books are good and holy."

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