It has appeared to me through some additional arguments with family members that there is no way to please the Mormon perspective of who I am. I had long sought to seek compromise but it is hugely apparent that none is possible while concerning those who refuse to know better.
I had decided to with hold my church resignation letter to avoid further controversy within the family (they notify family members and issue a "second chance" letter when a resignation has been submitted), but now the point is moot.
They expect me to say silent. They require that I sensor my ideas and convictions in some desperate hope that my atheistic philosophy is some bad dream that will go away, but it will not.
I am usually one to seek unity before I seek to deepen the divide between the secular and the religious, but some things must first be destroyed. Some things require collapse before one can construct anew. Some times a forest fire is necessary for the reproduction of pine trees and the destruction of parasitic bark beetles.
I propose to you that the Mormon faith needs deconstruction. I propose to you that the Mormon faith requires a collapse, a monumental schism at least. I propose to you that the fire of reason and rational thought must invade the Mormon parasitic territory and the territory of many other cousin fundamentalist religions.
Christopher Hitchens brought a brilliant fire. One of class and civility. He may not have convinced enough people but he put the atheistic ideas on the map during his life. Richard Dawkins, has done the same. Neil deGrasse Tyson does his way through science promotion, and a damn good job of it. We had Sagan, another great science promoter. If we can't burn religion out, we can sure drown it out with science.
Tomorrow I submit my resignation letter, and with it a fervor and excitement strengthened for the secular community and the requirement that it grows and strengthens exponentially. We may have a bad public image, but with enough time, that can be cured. I, we, all secularists must be so fucking awesome that it creates the utmost cognitive dissonance imaginable for those thinking that atheism equates immorality and incivility.
I'm not too keen of the Zerg on Starcraft, but dare I say, I'm ready for the swarm.
The swarm of science and reason.
I had decided to with hold my church resignation letter to avoid further controversy within the family (they notify family members and issue a "second chance" letter when a resignation has been submitted), but now the point is moot.
They expect me to say silent. They require that I sensor my ideas and convictions in some desperate hope that my atheistic philosophy is some bad dream that will go away, but it will not.
I am usually one to seek unity before I seek to deepen the divide between the secular and the religious, but some things must first be destroyed. Some things require collapse before one can construct anew. Some times a forest fire is necessary for the reproduction of pine trees and the destruction of parasitic bark beetles.
I propose to you that the Mormon faith needs deconstruction. I propose to you that the Mormon faith requires a collapse, a monumental schism at least. I propose to you that the fire of reason and rational thought must invade the Mormon parasitic territory and the territory of many other cousin fundamentalist religions.
Christopher Hitchens brought a brilliant fire. One of class and civility. He may not have convinced enough people but he put the atheistic ideas on the map during his life. Richard Dawkins, has done the same. Neil deGrasse Tyson does his way through science promotion, and a damn good job of it. We had Sagan, another great science promoter. If we can't burn religion out, we can sure drown it out with science.
Tomorrow I submit my resignation letter, and with it a fervor and excitement strengthened for the secular community and the requirement that it grows and strengthens exponentially. We may have a bad public image, but with enough time, that can be cured. I, we, all secularists must be so fucking awesome that it creates the utmost cognitive dissonance imaginable for those thinking that atheism equates immorality and incivility.
I'm not too keen of the Zerg on Starcraft, but dare I say, I'm ready for the swarm.
The swarm of science and reason.
"Just call me Bruce Wayne. I'd rather be Batman."
