The God Delusion

Posted in Religion at October 5th, 2008 ()

Surely one of the best books I have ever read, maybe even the best. I read at this book all my thoughts plus some interesting facts which I didn’t know. And I don’t need to praise Richard Dawkins, he proves himself.

Still I can’t help but wonder, where is this world going to anyway? Instead of all of us understanding or trying to understand why we are here, we insist on hanging on the words of incompetent imbeciles who only want our money. And in order to take it they keep us blinded and feared. Religion started as a worship of things people could not understand. Now it is a way of controlling the masses.

The Bible is not really a proof of anything at all. Childish stories, by people afraid of their future, written ages ago, by uneducated people, who lived in a totally different environment. Still most of us choose not only to believe in it, but also to live our lives by it and affect the lives of others around us. As if we wouldn’t be moral without a book, which supposedly tell us what to do.

If you read carefully all these ancient fairy tales you’ll find really annoying details. In all of them, without any exception. They refer to times when people were in constant fear of war, diseases and death. And all these books have in common the fact that they are recycled older stories or myths. No history in them whatsoever. Even their symbols are stolen.

But all major religions had really good marketing. That’s how they survived until today. And I accept that 2000 years ago people were poor, afraid, had no education, and there were some smart ones who saw a perfect business. How are we today in the same place?

If you think about it, despite the changes, many things are the same. We spend most of our lives working in boring jobs, end up with someone just because we have to make a family, buy houses and try to just survive. Media keeps us feared, even with their commercials, but most effectively by news. If you pay a little attention you’ll see that a major drama isn’t really a major one, it’s ordinary things happening to people.

And as there is no god there is no devil, people always did stupid or crazy things, it’s human nature, not a beast. And people can be kind by nature. To preserve their genes. No invisible forces urge us to act one way or another.

You just have to wake up one day and act if there is nothing. Unless you are a priest and you’ll lose your job and therefore your salary, nothing else is different. Same sky, same people, same job, same food. You work for your life, you fight for it, nothing really helps you, except in some cases the people that love you and care for you.

Anyway if you are born in a specific country, you adopt it’s religion. That in itself proves that it’s just popular belief, not a truth. If we were free we wouldn’t be baptised, we would have proper education and the freedom to choose for ourselves.

That’s where church interferes with the state. If a government decides to take religion out of schools it will die and the priests know that very well. That’s why they will never allow it.

All we need is a brain shake, like milk shake only without the milk.

One Response to “The God Delusion”

  1. 1 Gerard
    November 29th, 2008 at 2:25 am

    Good post! You reminded me that I started this book some time ago and somehow never finished it. Now I’m wondering where the hell I left it!

    I remember thinking that Dawkins’ brand of atheism was an interesting but slightly scary proposition. The militant angle may give a focus to atheists, but does it move toward creating some kind of antagonistic movement? I hope not.

    I think the best thing about atheism is that there’s no ruling body, no-one to potentially ‘profit’ from grouping atheists together.

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