Theism is Cultural Degradation of Humanity

Firstly, let me explain what is my view of a culture. It is what a children learn from their parents and elders in the society, or in other words, culture is composed of customs and traditions of the society which get naturally cultivated in the mind and lifestyle of children. Wit this definition, it may be or moving in right or wrong direction depending on whether customs and traditions of a society are right (scientific) or wrong (orthodox). So, culture is not a pious word, as is normally understood.


Greater problem with culture of a society is that the people usually pay great regard to their culture irrespective of whether it is right or wrong, and so resist any change in its norms even if it is non-scientific. This degrades the society. Europe critically analyzed its culture about 300 years back and entered into the age of renaissance which changed everything there - customs and traditions - thus, re-cultivating the people's minds and thinking. All people are not that great of being critical to what they are accustomed to. Conversely, India is still suffering with the burden of 2000 year old orthodox and superstitious culture.


The worst contributor of human culture in the history of humanity has been Plato who, in his Academy, researched on social dynamics and found that people can easily be slaved of misconceptions like God, religion, spirituality and other allied superstitions and he managed to float a theist culture all over the then world, particularly in Eurasia. That culture still prevails in most part of the world, blocking fresh thinking by the people for being terrified in the names of God and other Divinities, with various religions working as carriers of this terror. Thus, theism is the culture, exit from which people resist with all their might.


The original religion of humanity had been humanism. After the people were cultivated into theism, the converse of it - atheism, was coined as another name of humanism. Thus, theism and humanism face each other as opposite of each other. Unfortunately, for the huge and continuous investments in theistic religions by vested interests all over the world, most of the people today are theists forgetting everything about the real humanism. Even Jesus Christ, in whose name Christianity was floated about 200 years after his death, was opposed to misconceptions of religions and Gods for the whole of his life which he spent on Indian land along with his Theo (Dev) friends.