Heads up advice for atheists.

[abaris]

That is the unfortunate thing about humans, we are so wrapped up in thinking our clubs and politics and religions are unique we don't understand the evolutionary reality that our species perceptions are notoriously flawed.

It's sheer arrogance. During the last few decades scientists learn more and more about animal intelligence and their ability of abstract thinking. They're different than our species, but that doesn't mean they're less suited for their own environment. Sometimes they even show compassion.

There's a video around on the internet, showing a Zodiac at a hungarian zoo, fishing a flapping and drowning crow from a pond. He could have ripped the bird apart with his teeth, but he gently lifted it by the wing, put it on dry land and went on to have a snack, which wasn't the bird.

Come to think of it, I was an agnostic atheist for most of my life. As a child I was afraid of what god could do to me or my loved ones. That's what those theological bastards told us at every given opportunity. I never even tried to comprehend the trinity. For me, Jesus was kind of the good guy, who had this angry old man as a father. But I never really prayed. I tried it a few times, but it didn't sit well with me and bored me rigid. So I grew up, still calling myself a catholic, but really not giving a damn until I grew that angry with that whole religious business to call myself what deep down I've always been.

For any theist, I would really recommend to watch some videos about animal intelligence. Maybe somewhere along the line, some of them might learn that we're not that special, unique and adorable. And that this passage from Genesis is actually presumptuous bullshit: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."