Me: I don't believe in a God as is popularly defined.
You: Ah, so you are a skeptic. Skepticism is all well and good, but don't you think that there is something higher than you?
So what is wrong with that conversation, you ask. It seems like a natural conversation between an atheist and a believer. But it is not a natural conversation. It is a perverted, upside-down discourse. To see how that is so, let's turn that conversation on its head.
You: I believe in God.
Me: Ah, you're gullible. Gullibility is all well and good, but don't you think that the stark reality is that this is all that there is? No one is responsible for you but yourself.
But the second conversation is not the norm in polite company, and the first one happens regularly. Do you know why? Because it is somehow assumed that the default position is the belief in a God who is all-loving, yet who sometimes unaccountably shoves giant tsunami-shaped dildos up humanity's ass to demonstrate his love. If wholesale and indiscriminate slaughter of men, women, and children is love, then fuck that shit. I spit on that love.
It is assumed that the default position is theism and we the skeptics are the deviation from this position. That is so assbackwards and fucked up that the mind boggles.
We are all born atheists. So that is the default position. And then, depending on which group of people get to brainwash you before you reach the age of consent, you start believing in an invisible sky bastard with the head of an elephant, or in a murderous goat-fucking Middle Eastern God pimped by a child molesting medieval Arab death merchant, or in a two thousand year old Jewish zombie who had to get nailed to a fucking tree just so you could safely screw over your friends and co-workers all your life, beat up your wife, jack off thinking about the neighbour's pre-teen daughter, and still get to go to heaven. It is so retarded that just the thought makes me want to throw up in my mouth a little.
Yet ninety percent of humanity believes in variations of this mind-numbing nonsense because it is easier and more comforting to simply accept the lies and bullshit fed to you by your family and peers instead of taking the harder road of thinking for yourself and making independent decisions about yourself. Pathetic.
Doesn't it strike you that if indeed there existed an omni-everything god with oversight of all humanity, the knowledge of this god would be uniform? That there would not be the need of pre-adolescent brainwashing by your well-meaning family and friends that turns you variously into Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. That you would instinctively be able to figure out which one the One True God is and not have to cut each other's throats to prove whose god is the bestest. You cannot do this automagically today because there is no fucking god.
No you see, I am not a skeptic. I am a regular average guy. You are fucking gullible.
6 comments:
I gave up on this conversation a long time ago. It was just too tiring and nothing pissed me off more than being told pityingly 'God will come to you when you're ready for him'.
Ick!
Sougata
Take a chill pill. Things are not going to change in a hurry. And besides, I've realised that it doesn't really matter in the long run. There is a difference between knowledge and enlightenment. Ignorant people do not know that they are not enlightened, but knowledgeable people have a headstart and a better shot at it. What I define as enlightenment - coming to terms with knowledge and making peace with oneself and others. Sit back and enjoy this cosmic joke we call life.
Jyoti
Very true, how does one explain the random acts of violence if there were someone watching you all the time.
As you said, the time for atheism to be acceptable has not arrived.
The real problem is that you keep entertaining these discussions.. have you ever heard of 'changing the subject'?
:)
An on-the-rocks argument. I tend not to be too aggressive about my lack of beliefs. I have grown comfortable with what I feel and have also begun to let other people live with what they want to. Just as long as they dont try to force me with their peculiar notions of the good and the bad in the world.
You're back, yes? Now post.
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