After hundreds of conversations with both fanatic defenders of theism and the casual theists, I find myself having what is essentially the same conversation so often that I know my responses, as well as theirs by heart. It baffles me, we as a civilization stand at the precipice for a bright technological future. I mean really, this is the time to be alive. Over the next few centuries, we will undoubtably branch our civilization throughout the solar system, hopefully the galaxy. We will learn new methods of producing efficient energy that further moves our technological capabilities. Unless we annhilate ourselves, the next few generations are going to be born into a civilization so far beyond what we can fathom today it will be unrecognizable. Consider the leaps we've had in the last century alone. I am ecstatic for what this century offers and almost wish I were immortal so I could see it. We've learned so much in the last five decades alone, about ourselves, about our planet, about the cosmos. It seems so obvious to me, and others that what we have been taught for millenia about where we came from is so far removed from the facts that it should have been dismissed with flat earth and geo-centrists doctrine long ago. But it hasn't. Half the population of the US believes scientists are part of some global anti god conspiracy. Presidential nominees are asked if they believe in evolution, and in the US, a museum exists passing the Flintstones off as documentarial demonstrations of human history. How do we as a species outgrow this archaic and juvenile dogma so that our seemingly bright future, is as bright as it should be, and not impeded by those of us who wish to remain in the dark?
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
