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Atheism essay draft one Religion has long been the subject of great controversy worldwide. Countless wars, crimes, and terrorist attacks have been committed because of faith. Never has human dignity been so offended. Never has a war or terror attack been committed by ones lack of faith. Nobody has ever crashed a plane into a skyscraper for evolution. This is because religion states that all opposition to God must be destroyed, and provides not only motivation, but rewards for these actions. “…But thou shalt surely kill him [the atheist] ; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die." - Dt.13:6-10

I am not saying that atheists don’t commit crimes, because there are certainly ones that do. The difference is why they commit crimes. If all the atheists in America were deported, we would only lose 1% of the national prison population, and lose 97% of the scientific community, sending America into a scientific relapse. This would then place all Americas scientific knowledge onto what is laughably called “religious science”, a system where we explain everything with “God did it”. If America wanted to improve, everyone should become, or at least act, like an atheist. This would render churches obsolete, creating more time to work on things that will matter. The United States has a population of about 300,000,000 people, 75% of whom are Christian. If all those people gave up their faith and did something productive, we would have 225,000,000 more people working towards a goal. Praying every Sunday morning will never advance America in any way. In fact, it pushes America back towards the Middle Ages. If everyone worked towards a common goal (more efficient solar energy, teleportation, etc.), then those advances would come 100% faster, it not more. This would not only boost out scientific value, but morale as well. Without a religious reason to ban basic human rights (gay marriage and such), our nation would be a more connected and happier place. We would be able to grant humans the rights they are guaranteed in the constitution.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” "Declaration of Independence

Another thing is that religious people are actually less moral than atheists. A Christian doesn’t harm anyone because he wants to go to Heaven (that is, for personal benefit and reward), whereas an atheist is good for the sake of being good and helping others (that is, being good at his own expense). Theists also need to be told by a figure in authority not to kill, cheat, and steal, yet historically, they do all three chronically. Atheists figure out not to do these things because they harm others. For example, if a Christian and an atheist were put in a room, and told that God demanded they kill each other, who would be the one to start attacking? Obviously the Christian. He has consent from the highest authority to commit that crime. The Christian has motivation for killing the atheist and knows he shall be rewarded upon completion. The atheist declines because he has no reason to kill an innocent man. When the Christian does inevitably attack, then the atheist has full legal right to defend himself. Let us examine the seven sins. Most, if not all, are basic human responses, instincts, and emotion. This is a way for religion to control not only your mind, but your body. The sins are: Gluttony (eating beyond necessity) Wrath (anger) Sloth (resting beyond necessity) Lust (sexual feelings for another) Pride (feeling good about yourself) Envy (jealousy) Greed (desire for more than you have)

None of these acts cause harm to another or even the self. If you have a snack, you have eaten beyond necessity, and therefore have committed gluttony. If you feel proud of your accomplishments, you have committed pride. The list goes on and on. All of these are basic human qualities easily explained by simple biology and psychology. By making you feel guilty about yourself, religion has you trapped until you confess, and the cycle begins. Something else that is interesting is that sloth is a sin, but also according to the Bible, doing anything but resting on Sunday is a sin. So you need to commit a sin to not commit the other. You are trapped. People often accept religion because “that’s how I was raised”. If nobody ever told you about religion, or even brought it up until you were out of high school, and then tried to get you to believe it, you’d think they were hopping mad. This is because the adult mind has learned to spot contradictions, plus the fact that you have lived your life learning from a scientific standpoint. You would ask for proof. Since there is no proof, you would not believe it. Because religion is based on faith (believing a claim with zero evidence or backup), you have no way of explaining it. Imagine a young child. If he asked “how was the world created”, and kept asking “why” or “how” to a religious explanation, the conversation would be extremely short, since there are no supporting parts. A scientific explanation, however, would have support from all sides, quenching the child’s thirst for answers. The Big Bang theory has been attacked by theists because it is classified as a theory. To a theist mind, “theory” is defined as “some story some guy made up to explain something”. That sounds a lot like the Bible, doesn’t it? Theory is actually defined as “a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena”. Religion would be classified a hypothesis, defined as “a mere assumption or guess”. Since we have a valid explanation for the creation of the Universe, religion has been disproved. We already know the Universe is around 13.7 billion years old. This is fact. This is where intelligent design comes in. Intelligent design is the thought that God made everything in a specific and complicated way. Such as saying evolution is true, but God made it so animals could evolve. It basically boils down to when something is proven; it switches from “it’s an atheist lie!” to “it was God’s plan”. This is a slap in the face to science. Christians (somewhat) follow their morals. They cherry-pick what rules they want to follow. For instance, a man who thinks homosexuality is a sin, but has tattoos. Christians act moral so they can get into Heaven. Atheists are moral because it is the right thing to do. Atheists get no reward for their good behavior, they just are. Being good for personal gain is the same as lying. You are acting false for a reward. One who is good doesn’t and wouldn’t need a reward for being so. I could kill you if I wanted, but I don’t, because I have empathy, I would feel my actions to be wrong, I would feel guilt. A Christian doesn’t feel this way. A Christian murder would not feel guilt or remorse because they believe they will be forgiven. They believe they are doing God’s work. They have Gods permission to do this. This is how religion causes violence. 9/11 taught us that religion is no longer harmless myths. They are motivation for unspeakable crimes. The 9/11 hijackers no doubt believed they were doing a heroic act and would be rewarded with 72 virgins. 9/11 was a completely religious act. Theists will say “oh, it was political”, but it wasn’t. Al-Qaeda (the organization that caused 9/11) is a militant Islamist group, which means militant religion, not political. They were fighting the “evil” America. Let’s shift from Muslim terrorism to Christian terrorism. Recently, in Norway, a man named Anders Breivik single-handedly killed 77 people and injured 150 more during a rampage at both the nation’s Capital of Oslo but also a youth camp. He was armed with a pistol, assault rifle, and shotgun. He shot everybody he could, in addition to killing 8 people with a car bomb. His motivation was to restore Norway to its Christian glory and to eradicate the Muslim plague. This is more terrorism that came from a “peaceful” religion. The Bible goes against basic human knowledge. Sixty people over 1600 years, on three different continents in three different languages could not have written a coherent historical text. It also goes against modern science. No one man could build a ship (or ark) large enough to hold two of every animal, plus all the food and equipment to take care of them, for a year and ten days. Yes, the Bible says it rains for fourth days and nights. That’s how long it rained. The actual flood lasted another year. The ark that was discovered in Turkey by a team of researchers wasn’t anywhere close to the dimensions needed. Even an ark the size of an aircraft carrier would be too small. Also, scientists did the calculations; the ark found was too small. The Bible also states that Noah lived to be 800 years old to finish the ark. That is a fallacy right there, with no way out. No human can live past 200 years, much less back then when the life expectancy was around 50 years old. Not to say that one lie renders the whole story false, but follow with basic logic. He didn’t live to be 800, which means he couldn’t have finished the boat in 50 years, which means the story is false. There is no physical evidence for anything the Bible says. Jonah and the whale, Noah’s ark, etc. There is no evidence for any of them. All have been proven impossible or false. We have hard evidence of the Big Bang. Science doesn’t bend to your beliefs. Science is always right, but sometimes we interpret it wrong. For being a “peaceful” religion, most Christians are overly hateful people. In history, the Christians have attacked the following groups: Jews, Muslims, atheists, blacks, Native Americans, gypsies, Pagans, homosexuals, Asians, and more. In all of history, atheists have never attacked anyone as an organized group. This is where Christians bring up one of two arguments. One is “oh, those hate groups aren’t REAL Christians”, otherwise known as the “No True Scotsman” argument. The No True Scotsman argument is a logical fallacy and cannot be used to strengthen your side of an argument. This fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule. If they follow the Christian doctrine and believe in the Christian God, they are Christian. The other argument is “Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were atheists”. First off, Hitler was Christian. He was raised Christian, believed Christianity, and aspired to be a priest as a child. The Nazi’s uniforms said “Gott Mit Uns”, or “God With Us”. The Holocaust was a religious based event. “We are convinced people need and require faith. We have therefore undertaken to fight against the atheistic movement.” Case Closed. Stalin is a bit different. Yes, Stalin was an atheist, but his atheism wasn’t a driving factor in his regime as it was for Hitler. Stalin was simply a cruel man. He didn’t kill because he didn’t believe in God; he killed because he was an amoral man. You cannot commit a crime because of something you don’t believe in. “I’m killing because I do not believe in unicorns” doesn’t happen. He didn’t kill for atheism. If you believe humans cannot be good without God, let us play in a hypothetical scenario. God has given you a morality-free card. You have a blank slate. You can do whatever you want and still go to heaven when you die. This includes murder, rape, anything. Do you commit these acts? If no, then that’s where atheists get their morality. Basic love for our brethren. If you answer yes, then you are the evil one in this scenario. So, either atheists are moral and you are not, or we are both moral. I have heard the quote “If I didn’t think I would be punished, nothing would keep me from killing people.” This worries me that the only thing keeping people from being murderers is a delusion. I am going to examine some common arguments. 1. 1. If we came from apes, why are there still apes? For such a logically flawed argument, it gets asked way too much. Humans did not evolve from modern apes. Apes and humans both evolved from a distant ancestor. To say, one species evolved into two different species to fit their needs. That common ancestor is extinct. 2. 2. Something cannot come from nothing. This references the Big Bang Theory. Christians think that the Big Bang was some random explosion that made everything appear out of thin air. This is a ludacris claim. The theory states that all matter started out as a singularity, a single point of infinite density, which expanded in all directions at great speeds, similar to an explosion. There is also heaps of evidence to support it. The mass separates over billions of years, collects, organizes itself, and settles to make a new structure. Hydrogen formed into stars, where hydrogen atoms fused together to make helium, and those fused to make metals. The hottest stars created the heavier metals we know of today. All matter was part of a star at some point. To turn this argument around, where did God come from? How can something come from nothing? 3. 3. Look at the world. It’s too complex to have happen by chance. There must be a creator. Look at snowflakes. They are perfectly symmetrical. It is too complex to have happened by chance. And yet, it does. There is no snowflake smith who makes them. How could God create the world? If there was nothing before, how did he create it from nothing? Didn’t you state that something cannot come from nothing? What did God do before he created the Earth? Did he sit there twiddling his thumbs for infinite years before creating us? We know the age of the Universe. It is a fact that the age of the Universe is about 13.7 billion years old. 4. 4. God is all knowing, all powerful, and all good. Explain all the natural disasters and atrocities committed in history. No perfect being would allow this type of violence. He would not lean back and watch. If God knows all, then why pray? He already knows what you are going to say. 5. 5. The Devil caused those things. Satan is no more than an “independent angel”. He was one of the three angels mentioned in the Bible by name. God has power over all the angels. An all-powerful God would render Satan powerless. In the Bible, Satan gave humans knowledge and punishes the evil. God kills people who don’t do as he says. Who is the good one again? 6. 6. The Old Testament no longer applies. “For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass the law until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven,” (Matthew 5:18-19 RSV). Jesus himself said that. Contrary to popular Christian belief, atheism is by no means Satanism. Christians are more Satanic than any atheist. Atheists do not believe Satan exists, while Christians recognize him as a deity, making them believe in Satan. There are two branches of Satanism; Theistic Satanism, which is the cliché “devil worship”, and LaVeyen Satanism, which is atheistic. LaVeyen Satanism says neither God nor Satan exists, but you are the controller of your world. In recent years, atheists have become more outspoken. We used to live and let live, but our “live” part is being restrained. We atheists are forced to see religion every day, even though it’s a basic violation of the First Amendment. We have God in our Pledge, on our money, on our billboards, on our television. Theists will call us intolerant, when it is us who have been doing all the tolerating. Killing Muslims doesn’t sound tolerant to me. Restricting our speech because of our beliefs is disgusting. We have let churches grow and pastors speak, but if we put up a billboard, then we are causing the “downfall of American society”. America wasn’t founded on Christianity, or any religion for that matter. You do not listen to us when we speak, so it is time for us to yell. © 2011 Hayden

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Reviews Gretchen Clarke It's nice to read something that says exactly what one is thinking, isn't it?

Thank you for writing this; this truthfully needed to be said.



Posted 6 Years Ago

Rating /100 LamentedHaven "This is because religion states that all opposition to God must be destroyed, and provides not only motivation, but rewards for these actions."



It was wrong of you to generalize all religions into this statement because The New Testament of Jesus Christ states no such thing in regards of followers destroying all opposition with physical force - prior to this you were summarizing war, violence etc. Actually The God of the Holy Bible who is the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit says that vengeance belongs to Him alone. It was Christ who said be wise as serpents and harmless as doves and forewarned his disciples to love those who persecuted them and turn the other cheek. So yes there was a law punishable by death in the Old Testament, but salvation is obtained under the New Testament and the old was a schoolmaster to bring us to Jesus Christ.

Concerning your Big Bang explanation: It does state that something came from nothing which began the evolutionary process which contradicts the second law of thermodynamics. The BB states that living matter can come from non-living matter and the force or particles that caused the BB had to either be eternally in preexistence or come from nothing? However God is outside of time, outside of space and outside of matter so for Him to manipulate or create these stations that we are confined to would be no problem would it? I've got one for you - The heart cannot pump without the blood flow and the blood cannot flow without the heartbeat so which one came first?



Posted 6 Years Ago

Rating /100 Diomaz That was really interesting, good job!



Unfortunately, Theists often look at these arguments and have some sort of short-term memory mental relapse type of scenario happen. This renders our debating useless because they are incapable of contemplating what we say.



Unfortunately there will always be religion in our world. Unless we non-theists set up a base on the moon. Thatwouldbesoawesome.



Posted 8 Years Ago

Rating /100 MindCage whoa, this is net. you put some time in this.



Posted 9 Years Ago

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