False Beliefs and Ideas

A noted thinker, Thomas Jefferson noted, “It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.” The advice sounds good and accepted by one and all to be truthful. But the theist's world does just the reverse of above in-spite of its accepted truthfulness. The fundamental question that arises and need to be answered is what is the test for a falsehood of an idea or some belief being wrong.


human civilization has come a very long way to be a regime in its own right parallel to that of Nature. In many spheres of life, the nature's harshness is isolated from human life to eliminate its dangers to survival. As a result, mortality is reduced and longevity is enhanced. Hence, the Nature is no more supreme, or in other words, human intellectual resources, which have taken the human civilization so forward, have proved to be super to be treated at par with Nature. Further, potential of human intellect seems to be boundless and it can do much much more in future. The essence of this statement is that humanity can and must rely on its intellectual resources for all purposes of life including ideas and beliefs.


The idea of God and belief in it have never been verified by human intellect and to circumscribe the problem of verification, theists declare this idea beyond knowing by human intellect. As such the concept of 'agnosticism' is forwarded in support of this unknowability. Assuming, for a moment, that 'agnosticism' is correct, then what is that which created the concept of God, where did it come from, and how the humanity came to realize existence of God, if it is not from the human intellect. Let there be something agnostic in the universe, then why should humans bother about it if it is beyond knowing through human intellect, the best resource the humanity has at its disposal.
Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided


The fact of the matter is that idea of God and beliefs in it are mischievous creations of some humans through misuse of their intellect to mislead the humanity into an arena of false beliefs. This misleading became a thriving business for a large population all over the globe which has been finding newer ways to reinforce this false belief amongst innocent people.