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The following is their message…
Billions of people attend millions of churches around the world to worship God. Yet the God they worship is completely imaginary. Their belief represents a delusion.
How will we change the world, so that it becomes rational rather than religious? It is fascinating to think about how the transition will occur. Here are two things to consider:
There once was a time in America when no women could vote. Yet, somehow, even though women could not vote, they all have the right to vote today. How did that happen?
There was once a time in America where the large majority of people smoked cigarettes. Smoking was allowed everywhere — even on airplanes and in public restrooms. Yet today, smoking is banned in most public spaces, including airplanes. How did that happen?
The answer is that those two processes had to start somewhere. There had to come a point where some group of people in the minority said, “This is wrong, and we need to fix it.” They began openly talking about the problem. Then other people in the minority agreed. Then, eventually, the minority began to influence those on the outer edges of the majority. Once that process started and gained sufficient momentum, the majority (e.g. smokers) became the minority. And now we all understand that smokers have a problem. Smokers were unfortunate to become dependent on a highly addictive drug as teenagers, at a time when their rational brains were not fully developed. As a society, we now do our best to discourage teens from getting hooked and to help those who are already addicted.
Here is a simple question: Can we have the same sort of effect on religions like Christianity? Can we change Christianity from a “majority” activity into a fringe activity, and in the process replace it with something much, much better?
The idea of unseating something as strong as Christianity sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? But then, when women first started talking about gaining the right to vote, that sounded ridiculous too. We have to start somewhere.
This web site represents a starting point.
The way to change the world is to change people’s minds. As more and more people openly discuss the fact that “God” and “Allah” are completely imaginary, the world becomes a better place. The people who believe in “religion” look sillier and sillier. Eventually, religion becomes a fringe activity that is meaningless.
Whenever anyone says “God,” we should reply, “God is imaginary.”
Would you like to help speed up the process? It’s easy — Spread the word about this web site. Here are a few easy things that you can do today:
Link to this site in your own profiles, personal pages and blogs. For example, if you have a page on MySpace, add a link. If you frequent forums, put a link in your signature. If you have a blog, put a link in the sidebar.
Email a link to this web site to your friends.
Talk about the fact that God is imaginary. Encourage discussion and help others to start thinking rationally about religion.
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Taboo Jiver
1 Oct 2011It is difficult to disagree with the view that ‘God is imaginary’ when there is no way to prove the existence of God. The idea of God can’t even be proven in court and yet, people are made to put their hand on the Bible and swear to ‘Tell nothing but the truth so help them God’
tsudo pop
1 Oct 2011to say that religion and rationality exist on the opposite side of a spectrum is a logical fallacy. rationality exists, generally, as an operation of reason, which comes from an extension of the brain. scientists have found that there are parts of the brain that generate our belief system, and thus have come to be known as ‘religious’ parts of the brain, and thus in that sense religion and rationality are linked through various synapses and your argument has no basis.
plus, you don’t seem to have a problem with God more so than you have a problem with some sort of Christian God, or Christianity in general, as if to say there is a distinction from religion to religion on the exact God, when there isn’t. the three major religions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, all believe in the same God. and what you seem to be proposing is not only unconstitutional but unreasonable, and thus against the very rationality that you endorse, since by going around telling people how to believe is religious suppression and represents what Christians did to the Native Americans, the East, Indonesia, the Crusades, and in the Spanish Inquisition. essentially, you sound exactly like the people you seem to not like. perhaps not in the details–since i don’t think you’re proposing any sort of violent compulsion–but more so in the ideology.
ideology, i believe is what you should start saying is imaginary. you’re ideology is very much imaginary. you’re just cutting-and-pasting generic arguments into a string of thinly constructed syllogisms that are even less founded than Aristotle’s argument as to why slaves should be slaves. having religion doesn’t constitute as a crime against humanity, it doesn’t affect you in any way. if you don’t want to believe in a God or gods, then don’t. stop complaining with unjustified arguments. now, to complain about people using religion and religious scripture to justify violent acts and suppression of civil liberties all in the name of God, then i think you might have a legitimate argument. but you’re just saying people shouldn’t believe in God because they just shouldn’t. and the point isn’t to prove that there is a God, but rather to believe, since proof would then lead to knowing and knowing is the very inverse of belief. i think you should really go back and reexamine whether or not you had a point and whether or not that point actually had any reason in it, because you seem to only have intolerance for those who believe in God–specifically Christians– and not reason as to why people shouldn’t believe.