History of abolishing God from the society
February 25, 2022 at 2:21 am
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2022 at 2:29 am by Fake Messiah.)
I wrote this little retrospective of how people are abandoning God (mentality) more and more in and as a society.
Maybe it was just for myself, but, nevertheless, I would appreciate some additional input. I guess it comes in handy when you are faced with some theists claiming how atheism will perish or that atheism is ridiculous, that in reality society is striving towards abolishing God from its branches so that it can function better.
God out of medicine - perhaps one of the last symbols of clinging to God in medical problems was during the last years of Romanov rule in Russia. Their only son, the prince, had hemophilia and all they did was pray. Empress lived inside of a church. Leading them to think that Rasputin was sent by God to heal their son, and we all know what happened then. It never occurred to the empress that those "dirty" peasants around her had the key to the cure for her son if only she invested her money in godless medical research for the cure. Indeed, there is a cure today so that that boy could have a normal life just by taking it. Which is a mentality of today: if there is some incurable disease, people don't pray but organize foundations to collect money and invest it in medical research.
God lost authority in politics - it was considered that bishops had all the answers from their holy books on how to run a country, but now with humanism, it is considered that human feelings are the most important. So you have the voter deciding what is best for the people and you don't ask God or the Pope. You go to each human and ask him or her what they want. You don't go anymore and tell people "Yes, you might think that and feel this, but you are wrong because there is a higher authority saying that you are wrong," like it was in the middle ages, and is in now Islamic theocracies.
God out of art - in the past, philosophers claimed that art is objective, that people should look for the divine in art, but now the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Ever since Marcel Duchamp in 1917 took a urinal and proclaimed it as art, people consider art to be subjective, that if you think something is beautiful and are willing to pay for it, then there is no authority to tell you that you are wrong.
God out of ethics and morality - in the past, people went to the priest and asked him what is good and he would tell them "Homosexuality is bad because God says it is bad, or the pope says so." Nobody cared what people thought. But today, people don't care for what God says, or the Bible, or the Pope. What is authority today is what people think and feel. Now, there are some harder ethical questions that need further discussion, but they are all centered around human feelings and thoughts, no one takes out the Bible and looks at what the divine commandments say.
God out of education - people were used to be educated on what God supposedly thinks so that they project that into the society, but today people are educated to think for themselves because thinking for yourself to know what you want is the highest part of the authority in a democracy.
Maybe it was just for myself, but, nevertheless, I would appreciate some additional input. I guess it comes in handy when you are faced with some theists claiming how atheism will perish or that atheism is ridiculous, that in reality society is striving towards abolishing God from its branches so that it can function better.
God out of medicine - perhaps one of the last symbols of clinging to God in medical problems was during the last years of Romanov rule in Russia. Their only son, the prince, had hemophilia and all they did was pray. Empress lived inside of a church. Leading them to think that Rasputin was sent by God to heal their son, and we all know what happened then. It never occurred to the empress that those "dirty" peasants around her had the key to the cure for her son if only she invested her money in godless medical research for the cure. Indeed, there is a cure today so that that boy could have a normal life just by taking it. Which is a mentality of today: if there is some incurable disease, people don't pray but organize foundations to collect money and invest it in medical research.
God lost authority in politics - it was considered that bishops had all the answers from their holy books on how to run a country, but now with humanism, it is considered that human feelings are the most important. So you have the voter deciding what is best for the people and you don't ask God or the Pope. You go to each human and ask him or her what they want. You don't go anymore and tell people "Yes, you might think that and feel this, but you are wrong because there is a higher authority saying that you are wrong," like it was in the middle ages, and is in now Islamic theocracies.
God out of art - in the past, philosophers claimed that art is objective, that people should look for the divine in art, but now the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Ever since Marcel Duchamp in 1917 took a urinal and proclaimed it as art, people consider art to be subjective, that if you think something is beautiful and are willing to pay for it, then there is no authority to tell you that you are wrong.
God out of ethics and morality - in the past, people went to the priest and asked him what is good and he would tell them "Homosexuality is bad because God says it is bad, or the pope says so." Nobody cared what people thought. But today, people don't care for what God says, or the Bible, or the Pope. What is authority today is what people think and feel. Now, there are some harder ethical questions that need further discussion, but they are all centered around human feelings and thoughts, no one takes out the Bible and looks at what the divine commandments say.
God out of education - people were used to be educated on what God supposedly thinks so that they project that into the society, but today people are educated to think for themselves because thinking for yourself to know what you want is the highest part of the authority in a democracy.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
