There is no God

by deadseraph

At one point I contemplated the unlikely circumstance of religiosity being an attribute that is genetically acquired. I never genuinely thought it could be, but pondering the fact that it was due entirely to environmental factors led me to my present state of mind - THAT THERE IS NO GOD!

A bold statement, I suppose, but I am not alone in this belief.

Where to begin? Recently a Jehovah’s Witness came to my front door. He had been a couple of times before, and I have accepted his holy propaganda on occasions. However, I have always refused to engage in an argument on the front doorstep - if he’s gonna go around the neighbourhood knocking on every fucking door, getting abused, ignored and humiliated, then I would assume that his mind is pretty much made up. Well, that’s his problem, not mine. I’ve accepted the literature with the intention of reading it, so that I might shoot the theories therein full of holes in the privacy my living room. Actually though, I can seldom be bothered reading it at all. Anyway, recently I acquired a pamphlet, one of those ‘Watchtower’ things, entitled ‘What is the purpose of life?’, and while I enjoyed the Christian bashing that it contained, I wholeheartedly disagreed with its overall content. Anyway it got me thinking, on this need that we as a race have for some almighty purpose, driven by an almighty being. Why do we find it so hard to admit that we are ultimately unimportant?

We are not born with a genetic gearing toward religiosity, I’ll say that from the start. Yet I would favour that we do have an inherent need to explain (and ultimately conquer, but that is another subject entirely) our surroundings, to assure, and continually reassure, ourselves of our place in the great scheme of things. This explanation need not be religion, lest your religion be science.

Understandably this is hard to swallow for some. Convincing ourselves as a race that our role is just that of another animal, albeit infrequently a highly intelligent one, with no greater genetic purpose than to procreate, is not easy - because let’s face it, most people are stupid! Procreation, the will and want to fuck, is an unyielding genetic trait. We are sexual creatures, all of us, in spite of all the prudes out there, and the purpose of sex is procreation. Through feelings of extreme pleasure our bodies drive us to have children - we are slaves to the will of nature.

It is easy to see how creatures with imaginations as great as our own would have invented creation stories to explain our presence, and the existence of the stars, sun, etc., and perhaps these were little more than stories originally. Then they became half-truths. Then reality. Each generation would believe the stories a little more, until myth finally became so entwined in truth that they became one and the same. And so, Religion was born. It could be argued that religion serves a purpose - it guards the weak among us from the insanity of having no real answer for themselves, the world and the universe.

I would suggest that my theory is proven as many times as there are religious cults on our planet. What other explanation is there for the fact that since the beginning, up until this very point in time, new religious groups have sprung up every other day. Another will probably start up tomorrow - and some idiots will believe in it, believe that it offers them some kind of salvation. I do not hesitate to proclaim them fools.

All of these cults, old and new, borrow and steal ideas from each other, further illustrating the safety that they perceive in established notions of religion. These people just want to be told that everything is alright. They are afraid of death, and consequently they are afraid of life. They shelter behind symbols, statues and stained glass. Their lives are not, as I have heard some of them claim, full of freedom. Freedom is doing what you want, not doing as you are told lest you incur the wrath of a vengeful god! Freedom is contained only in the worship of the Self. The only church worth joining is the Church of the Self.

There are different cults the world over, faiths that are ever changing as their members migrate to different places over the years and capture the imaginations of other weak-minded people. This proves that religiosity is without doubt a product of environment and human imagination. This multitude of cults have differing gods, scriptures and ideas of good and evil, all fitting their own personal outlook and ethics. And I haven’t even began to talk about religion as tool for greedy opportunists making the most of an abundance of stupid ‘sheeple’.