Searching for Meaning: Arguments Against Organized Religion

Man will walk the Earth in peace, not however, until the dissolution of religion. It divides us and submits us to another. Man cannot be free of itself until it is free of the slavery of their gods. A time will come when rational thought permeates our thick-headed foolishness.

Gods are the justification of hate, of separation, of inequality. How can one be free of hate, of division, or of inequality when yet they stick to a sectarian community. Divisions in the heart are subject of division in community. And never shall we be free until we think ourselves at heart and in existence equal, thus banishing the sectarian divisions of religious belief.

For the world to be good we must push aside the archaism of this life being a transience between birth and the next life, a way to suffer and earn eternal bliss. Until man focuses on the here and now, we will remain imperfect, we will remain divided, and hateful. Until we decide that this life, be there one after it or not, is worthy of effort, mankind will remain hateful and if there is another life after this present one, continue they have to deny themselves the pleasantries of that life too.

Long Live Blue's Clues

V is for Victory and it's good enough for me. Haha, haha, hahaha. I told you so. True blue through and through. And dispose one bottle of Rum and we're set for a two year Duck season. Just so long as we don't go hunting in mixed company. Liable to get shot. Ah the feeling of a good firing... Two for the Nancy boys and six more in this Op's Ed. And remember never to count on a Red Virgin you'll always draw short. Long live Blue's clues.

Tomorrow

What is man but the culmination of all their actions? We are what we make ourselves. No one can make these decisions for us. We believe what we choose to believe. We like what we choose to like. Hate what we choose to hate. We are influencible yes, but not stuck to conforming to that influence. In the end, we must make a decision and that decision guides who we are and who we will become. This is the person that others see in you and the person that they like or hate. That said, vote tomorrow. Vote for the way that your children will see you and your peers. Vote for the way you want to be perceived. Just vote.

Rantings of a Mad Man Part XI: Diatribe of a Blind Man

Man is set with his vices, stationary with his opinions and firm in his beliefs. We are a people of ancients. We rather the tried and true (or not so true so long as tried) path than set out and create our own way. Our biases are centuries old and our mindsets older still. Man is still trapped by the mistakes of its past and continues to make them relentlessly into the present. Friendly skies flown the wrong direction are more traveled than stormy ones headed the right.

No one said change was easy. Yet as time passes, man's grasp of certain archaic principles will become increasingly unseemly to those of us who break with tradition and form our own paths.

Religion, marriage, sexuality, superstition, and traditional values akin to these are up for grabs and I'm the merchant. Religion is the pacifier of the masses; it excuses the actions of leaders and trendsetters as they say: "This life is imperfect and must be tolerated. The next life will be great."

The problem remains that this life is imperfect because people look to the next, take the easy way out, and are pacified into complacency.

Marriage and sexuality (the expression and kinds of love) are dictates from religion. The sanctity of marriage. Sexuality is reprehensible and many times abnormal and immoral. These are the guilts brought on by religion. They are means of control, ways to push religion into people's lives. Marriage is a shackle and a safety net, a double-edged blade whose good justifies its bad. This makes it ever tricky. Sexuality is the expression of love. Religion promotes moderation, moderation of love. This diminishment of love is perhaps the greatest crime of all.

Superstition is a queer sort of concept and proves that man is capable of fighting the confines of religion. Superstition conveys the innate belief that there is something extraneous to gods or religious beliefs. This may very well become the fall of monotheistic religion and there upon contemplation, the fall of all religion. Man will notice that superstition will overtake gods and religious belief. It will become clear that nothing changes. The world will not end; we will not become profoundly unlucky; karma will not kick us in the teeth. And there our eyes will open and we will see our views of religion as they have been since prehistoric times a fallacy and a means of control of the meek by the powerful and the dominating.

The men of theses traditional values travel the lighted path and in the wrong direction. I travel the path of darkness, an unknown path on which I do not float but careen. A race in the darkness I plow through picking up as much knowledge as I can as I go. My understanding of this new path is not complete, surely not as yours of the beaten path. But my knowledge is worth more, as it is the ideas of man's future and not his past misconceptions manifested continuously on his present.

In short, I am a blind man in a dark world. I am unable to see all that I experience and comprehend even less. Yet you are a blind man in a world of light. To be blind alone as to the future of my path, though unhelpful, is not nearly as bad as being blind of one's own mistakes in a light that is six billion persons strong.

I am blind but I am not a follower. You can see yet you are enslaved to the ideals of the herd. Ergo, I am the future and you are the past. The only question remains is how long it will be before I can pull you from the herd, or more threateningly so, see for myself in the darkness. Then man will be free of his past. Only then shall we all truly see.