The words 'Atheism' and 'Atheist' are derived from Greek roots 'Atheos' which means non-existence of Theos'. So, an understanding of these terms starts with understanding of the word 'Theos'. My research work of nearly 20 years now is focused on 'Theos'. I would like to put fort my views here.
Theo was an ancient race originally residing on the piece of land now known as Thailand, which should have been 'Theoland' indeed. Theos had a great family of Purus about 2,500 years back from now. On expansion of the family and their confidence of building a vast civilized humanity, three brothers of the family Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwar, moved to a vast piece of flat fertile land, now known as Indian subcontinent. Here, the rivers were in plenty to provide potable water and they decided to make human settlements in areas covered by rivers Ganga and Yamuna in north India. Here Theos were called as 'Devas' who developed a new language 'Devnaagaree'. They also recorded their scientific developments and historical facts, as 'Vedas' and Puranas, the most precious scriptures of India even today.
At that time, this piece of land had forests all over with sparse human population which neither knew agriculture not had techniques of building houses. Purus started clearing forests, building houses for the population, processing minerals obtained from the land and started cultivating land for growing food-grains. Their achievements were great and the land soon became rich in wealth and human population. They started trading their commodities to other human populations, particularly Greece, another citadel of human civilization at that time.
At that, many human races were wild wandering from place to place to ward off hardships of temperature variations over climatic cycles. It soon became their profession to attack civilized human populations, particularly the Greeks, and get away with whatever they could find for their consumption. These races were mainly on the piece of land now referred to as West Asia.
Reputation of India as a rich land soon reached their ears also, and they arrived in India in the name of spreading a religion - Judaism, and settled themselves in southern part of Indian subcontinent. Soon Krishna became their leader who used to pose as an incarnation of God. Struggles between Theos and Judas ensued culminating into a world war referred to as 'Mahaabhaarat', in which Theo group was defeated. This war was participated by Alexander from the side of Judas and Aryans on the Theos side.
To eliminate the reputation of Theos from the people's minds, the Judas mistranslated the scriptures in another language now known as modern Sanskrit to spread concepts of religions and God through these scriptures. For this purpose, real meanings of terms used in scriptures were altered to serve their nasty purpose of misleading the people. These nasty translations are still popular in India. They also spread that Theos were imaginary super-natural divinities, different incarnations of God. Thus, the word 'Theo' became synonym with 'God'.
Those believing in existence of God are now known as Theists, and those opposing this misleading concept are Atheists. Here, it is noteworthy that Atheists are not anti-Theos, but only anti-God.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Absolutism and Genesis of Atheism
Whatever we know, we know it with reference to something else or we can say that we live in a relativistic world. Things are known as bigger or smaller relatively, as black or green as compared to assumed names of different shades, of this or that size as compared to a given scale, etc. All such examples prove that human brain perceives things in relation to some thing else used as a reference, and not anything in absolute terms.
Hypothesis of God or theism is based on absolutism of this concept, so is beyond human perception. And whatever is beyond perception, can not be even put forward even as a hypothesis honestly. This proves that absoluteness of God is hypothesis put forward with malicious intentions to confuse people and do a fraudulent business in the field of Godliness.This is the basis of agnosticism.
Another meaning given to 'absolutism' is 'knowing something fully'. Although this definition is not correct, even knowing a thing fully blocks further efforts of knowing the thing in more detail through scientific investigations, and thus is paralyzing to human curiosity. Since, knowledge base about everything remains always expandable, no knowledge is or shall ever be absolute. So even this definition of absolutism is infeasible.
When we always have limited knowledge, we can never say anything with surety. What may be best said is with relative to the current knowledge base of humanity which is ever expanding. Any malicious element in this knowledge base gets also expanded through hypotheses after hypotheses. In case of theism, these are made prevalent in society through terrorizing people in the name of a super-power named God, which no body knows.
As a general rule, people get afraid of unknown things and forces. Since God remains unknown since its inception about 2,500 years back, its terror continues in the minds of people which some cunning business-persons of this field take undue advantages thereof. this is the reason for genesis and continuance of theism in the world.
Nobody need to oppose a concept if it is not demoralizing to humanity through terror. Since, theism is used to terrorize people and dehumanize them, a counter-attack became necessary giving birth to atheism.
Hypothesis of God or theism is based on absolutism of this concept, so is beyond human perception. And whatever is beyond perception, can not be even put forward even as a hypothesis honestly. This proves that absoluteness of God is hypothesis put forward with malicious intentions to confuse people and do a fraudulent business in the field of Godliness.This is the basis of agnosticism.
Another meaning given to 'absolutism' is 'knowing something fully'. Although this definition is not correct, even knowing a thing fully blocks further efforts of knowing the thing in more detail through scientific investigations, and thus is paralyzing to human curiosity. Since, knowledge base about everything remains always expandable, no knowledge is or shall ever be absolute. So even this definition of absolutism is infeasible.
When we always have limited knowledge, we can never say anything with surety. What may be best said is with relative to the current knowledge base of humanity which is ever expanding. Any malicious element in this knowledge base gets also expanded through hypotheses after hypotheses. In case of theism, these are made prevalent in society through terrorizing people in the name of a super-power named God, which no body knows.
As a general rule, people get afraid of unknown things and forces. Since God remains unknown since its inception about 2,500 years back, its terror continues in the minds of people which some cunning business-persons of this field take undue advantages thereof. this is the reason for genesis and continuance of theism in the world.
Nobody need to oppose a concept if it is not demoralizing to humanity through terror. Since, theism is used to terrorize people and dehumanize them, a counter-attack became necessary giving birth to atheism.
Faith and Intellectualism
Faith and intellectualism are two opposite ends of ideology of an individual. In faith, the person believes in the matter without questioning its authenticity. this amounts to blocking the intellectual component of the person's personality. In intellectualism, the persons verifies the authenticity of a matter before him/her and believes only when the matter is found to be true. In this way of believing, the person makes full use of his/her intellect and in the process sharpens it further.
Intellect is the most precious attribute of a human-being making it superior to all other species of life on earth. So, it is distinctive of humanity and without this or without making use of it, the human-being is like any other animal, or in other words, the intellectualism is true humanism.
All matters of God, religions, spirituality, etc. demand faith of people without questioning, or without any intellectual intervention by the person, so are contra-humanity. And conversely, atheism is the real humanism. All faithfuls are just like beggars who live on others' mercies.
All humans have curiosity as a natural instinctive attribute, and curiosity includes knowing a thing in its depth trough use of logic and/or intellect. Use of logic and intellect is intellectualism and need no blind faith. Thus, atheism is an instinctive gift of nature for all those having intellect, and conversely theism is artificial and anti-instinctive.
Intellect is the most precious attribute of a human-being making it superior to all other species of life on earth. So, it is distinctive of humanity and without this or without making use of it, the human-being is like any other animal, or in other words, the intellectualism is true humanism.
All matters of God, religions, spirituality, etc. demand faith of people without questioning, or without any intellectual intervention by the person, so are contra-humanity. And conversely, atheism is the real humanism. All faithfuls are just like beggars who live on others' mercies.
All humans have curiosity as a natural instinctive attribute, and curiosity includes knowing a thing in its depth trough use of logic and/or intellect. Use of logic and intellect is intellectualism and need no blind faith. Thus, atheism is an instinctive gift of nature for all those having intellect, and conversely theism is artificial and anti-instinctive.
Science and Religion
Every one of us faces confrontations of scientific facts and religious feelings. Religions, not being based on scientific methods and conventions, always feel inconvenience due to growth of scientific knowledge, and fight it to eliminate it. Religions put a person on infinite paths of hope and which is never fulfilled. But the hope keeps the person engaged in itself without any results.
Religions preach following something of ancient origin with no margins for updating. Since, knowledge never gets saturated and tends to grow, nothing can ever reveal ultimate truths. This includes religions also which suffer from their built-in infinite inertia. Inertia is never a force but an opposition to dynamism. So, religions are opposed to dynamism of thinking which we humans are naturally gifted. Thus, religions are anti-humanism.
Sciences may not be revealing ultimate facts but always tend to moving in that direction so make a dynamic force to influence humanity. This dynamism is opposed by religions through their inertial attribute.
All religions tell us that God is infinite and so can not be known by finite human intellect. Scientific knowledge is also expanding and tends to extend to infinity, but is never assumed to be beyond capacity of, so-called finite, human intellect. This logic makes religions and sciences having mutually opposing notions.
Some religious experts claim religions to be sciences of humanism. Psychology is the greatest of sciences as far as understanding human behavior is concerned. It studies both possibilities - taming and expanding - of human mind. Religions use it for taming purposes to gather more followers. So, religions too make use of science of psychology, and up to this extent, their working is scientific - though a negative use of the science. Sciences are another name for rationality while religions have no rational basis and are based on mere hypotheses, so are not a science.
Religions preach following something of ancient origin with no margins for updating. Since, knowledge never gets saturated and tends to grow, nothing can ever reveal ultimate truths. This includes religions also which suffer from their built-in infinite inertia. Inertia is never a force but an opposition to dynamism. So, religions are opposed to dynamism of thinking which we humans are naturally gifted. Thus, religions are anti-humanism.
Sciences may not be revealing ultimate facts but always tend to moving in that direction so make a dynamic force to influence humanity. This dynamism is opposed by religions through their inertial attribute.
All religions tell us that God is infinite and so can not be known by finite human intellect. Scientific knowledge is also expanding and tends to extend to infinity, but is never assumed to be beyond capacity of, so-called finite, human intellect. This logic makes religions and sciences having mutually opposing notions.
Some religious experts claim religions to be sciences of humanism. Psychology is the greatest of sciences as far as understanding human behavior is concerned. It studies both possibilities - taming and expanding - of human mind. Religions use it for taming purposes to gather more followers. So, religions too make use of science of psychology, and up to this extent, their working is scientific - though a negative use of the science. Sciences are another name for rationality while religions have no rational basis and are based on mere hypotheses, so are not a science.
Concept of God blocks Rational Thinking
Whole philosophy of God is based on mere faith in the unknown. This faith is created through terrorizing minds of the subjects by something unknown. People don't often know future events but have a desire to know. An alternate of knowing the future is provided by the concept of God, which preaches not to try knowing the future but to leave it to the unknown forces known as God. Thus, the concept of Gods blocks thinking on the future.
Future is solely governed by the past through cause-and-effect principle. Therefore, if humanity knows the past events and their effects, knowing the future becomes possible. This needs a rational thinking. Blocking efforts for knowing the future is equivalent to blocking rational thinking. Rationality is not only a product of intellect but is also a measure of this. Blocking the rationality is paramount to blocking the human intellect.
Humanity differs from other species of life in its highly developed intellect only. Therefore, blocking use of intellect is blocking rational thinking and blocking the most precious asset of human-beings - the intellect. This derives to the fact that the concept of God, the Theism, is anti-humanity.
Most of us are prone to adopting the most convenient paths in or routine lives. The concept of God provides the most convenient way to living through replacement of thinking and making efforts by faith in God. This was probably the reason for evolving this nasty concept by enemies of humanity to degrade the humanity and its intellect.
Future is solely governed by the past through cause-and-effect principle. Therefore, if humanity knows the past events and their effects, knowing the future becomes possible. This needs a rational thinking. Blocking efforts for knowing the future is equivalent to blocking rational thinking. Rationality is not only a product of intellect but is also a measure of this. Blocking the rationality is paramount to blocking the human intellect.
Humanity differs from other species of life in its highly developed intellect only. Therefore, blocking use of intellect is blocking rational thinking and blocking the most precious asset of human-beings - the intellect. This derives to the fact that the concept of God, the Theism, is anti-humanity.
Most of us are prone to adopting the most convenient paths in or routine lives. The concept of God provides the most convenient way to living through replacement of thinking and making efforts by faith in God. This was probably the reason for evolving this nasty concept by enemies of humanity to degrade the humanity and its intellect.
Atheism, Rationality and Religions
All religions fail on rational scrutiny so they disallow it and blame the scientific community, and particularly the atheists, to interfere in their matters of faith. But they never provide justification why even the faith should not be scrutinized. What is rational may be, many times, circumstantial and subjective, but this too does not mean that we allow anything irrational or be like this in our behavior and actions. From atheism point of view, however, there may always be a need to improve upon considerations of rationality.
What all religions flourish on is the terror of not remembering God and other Divinities, thus is a promotion of theism through negative feelings in the minds of people. Religious preachers often remind the people of the day of judgment after their respective deaths to terrify people and make them surrender to the imagination called God through the religions and religious agents. This has become a flourishing business all over the world with concentration in the developing and the under-developed world.
Absolute truth is always the only one and if God is the absolute truth, there can not be different ways to promote Him. This means existence of a single religion on the earth and that is 'humanism' mutilated, damaged and destroyed by multiple religions with vested interests.
The only logic for faith put forward by the theist is that 'seeing something is not necessary for believing in existence of that, it could be through information from those who had seen the thing'. But such a belief must be verifiable through actually seeing or through derivation by the subject if need be. Has anybody claiming to see the God shown it to anybody else? Such so-called divine souls simply play psychological games to make fool of the innocent people and thus misguide them to serve their vested interests.
Another school of thought which has come up to bypass rational scrutiny is 'fideism' which completely forbids rational scrutiny of faith. Indeed it is no thought in any way but just the empiricism.
Whole Nature is transient by its nature itself and this fact has been misused by the theist to preach the search of something stable and they call it God - just an imagination. How and why the stable God will create everything transient?
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Another argument put forward by theists is the infinite universe which, they say, must have a creator. They forget and make others to forget that the Nature evolves through its transitory nature, and the whole creation is the result of this evolution. Nothing has been created in a moment but everything has evolved through cause-and-effect principle of Nature.
What all religions flourish on is the terror of not remembering God and other Divinities, thus is a promotion of theism through negative feelings in the minds of people. Religious preachers often remind the people of the day of judgment after their respective deaths to terrify people and make them surrender to the imagination called God through the religions and religious agents. This has become a flourishing business all over the world with concentration in the developing and the under-developed world.
Absolute truth is always the only one and if God is the absolute truth, there can not be different ways to promote Him. This means existence of a single religion on the earth and that is 'humanism' mutilated, damaged and destroyed by multiple religions with vested interests.
The only logic for faith put forward by the theist is that 'seeing something is not necessary for believing in existence of that, it could be through information from those who had seen the thing'. But such a belief must be verifiable through actually seeing or through derivation by the subject if need be. Has anybody claiming to see the God shown it to anybody else? Such so-called divine souls simply play psychological games to make fool of the innocent people and thus misguide them to serve their vested interests.
Another school of thought which has come up to bypass rational scrutiny is 'fideism' which completely forbids rational scrutiny of faith. Indeed it is no thought in any way but just the empiricism.
Whole Nature is transient by its nature itself and this fact has been misused by the theist to preach the search of something stable and they call it God - just an imagination. How and why the stable God will create everything transient?
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Another argument put forward by theists is the infinite universe which, they say, must have a creator. They forget and make others to forget that the Nature evolves through its transitory nature, and the whole creation is the result of this evolution. Nothing has been created in a moment but everything has evolved through cause-and-effect principle of Nature.
Atheism and Secularism
Secularism is not discriminating between various religions and faiths by the society, and when this principle is applied to the State, it means freedom of all policies and matters of the State from all religions and faiths. This perceptional difference between the society and State creates a great contradiction as far as whole humanity is concerned. This is because of the religions and faiths being imposed on the humanity artificially to serve vested interests of a few. Conversely, the concept of atheism being quite natural to humanity supports secularism in both the sectors - society as well as State.
If the concept of religion were natural to the humanity, there could be no multiplicity of religions on the earth. In that case, that only religion would have been religion of humanism needing no atheism and no secularism. Multiplicity of religions also proves their falsehood. And this falsehood itself has given rise to the concepts of secularism and atheism.
Ensuring existence of a secular State has the greatest difficulty from religious/theists persons in political authority. They can't be free and fair to followers to all religions for their individual biases because a person is first an individual, then a family-person, then a social creature, and lastly a political authority. Since, the first three of these statuses of the person have religious biases, his/her fourth status can't be free from this bias. So very existence of theism and religions mars possibility of a secular State unless those in political authority are atheists.
A religious person may subscribe to secularism by recognizing everyone else's rights to follow faiths of their individual choices. But, the religious persons are regularly persuaded to be fanatic about their respective religions, and this influence, they forget rights of others and follow path of secularism. Conversely, an atheist is by own nature itself is certainly a subscriber of secularism by heart and mind. Other humanistic aspects that the atheists have above all creeds of religious people are discussed below.
Fairness without Fear
Some of the theists follow path of truthfulness for their belief that God is observing all their deeds and if they speak a lie, they shall be punished by Him sooner or later. Although such a fear is baseless, this has a sobering influence of these theists. This is good for the society in some way, but is not right from morality point of view. Doing something under fear is against human moral standards. Apart from these few God-fearing theists, all others know it in their heart and mind that the very concept of God is a falsehood and aimed at cheating others. Higher the level of theistic displays in the person, more is his/her knowledge about falsehood of the concept of God. This makes them more immoral than anybody else. Conversely, all atheists have no fears and are thoughtful and courageous persons. For these attributes, they stick to moral values and stay fair under all circumstances without any fear.
Unbiased Opinions
Atheists are free from religious biases and their multiplicities, so they have a higher possibility of having a free and fair opinion on any matter related to humanity. Because of an all-pervading influence of religions, a religious bias touches all aspects of life of a theist and prevents his/her mind to think freely and fairly as a matter of habit. Religious institutions add fuel to this fire against humanity. This also mars their thinking capabilities.
Truly Democratic
All religions of the world have evolved to be autocratic in nature and functionality in line with the imagined autocracy of God. Thus, in the realm of God and religions, there exists no possibility of a true democracy which is so far considered to be best system of governance of a humanity. Thus religions and theism bias the people in favor of anti-democratic autocracy which is against the evolved conscience of humanity to be democratic. It is only the atheists, who can afford to be truly democratic.
Free Thinkers
All religions are dictum of their prophets and divinities and no body is ever allowed to speak against them. Some religions even prescribe inhuman punishments to those expressing their free thoughts on God and religions. Thus, religious followers can never be free thinkers as a matter of their evolved natures of being religious. Conversely, all atheists are free to think and they practice it as a matter of their individual habits. For them logic plays the superior-most role in their lives which is part and parcel of thinking process.
Creative Beings
All arts and sciences are the most refined forms of creative expressions. Out of these, arts have limited roles of entertainment in human life while sciences influence every aspect of it leading the humanity to be more civilized and more creative. Religions are generally against scientific way of life and thinking and hence prevent scientific creativity in their followers. On the other hand, atheists are of scientific temper and they are atheists for their being of scientific temper and continuously nourishing this trait of theirs.
Neutrality and Arbitrariness
Freethinkers: A History of American SecularismHumans, for having the most developed intellect of all forms of life, must be guided by their own free conscience but the religions put social and parental pressures on each individual since birth and make him unable to make his/her free choice of faith. So, religious persons are reduced to less than the true humans with intellect. Conversely, the atheists are free from such psychological bondages and so are neutral in their decisions.
This drives the point that true secularism could be achieved through wiping out all religions from the earth. Further in that case, no secularism will ever be needed.
If the concept of religion were natural to the humanity, there could be no multiplicity of religions on the earth. In that case, that only religion would have been religion of humanism needing no atheism and no secularism. Multiplicity of religions also proves their falsehood. And this falsehood itself has given rise to the concepts of secularism and atheism.
Ensuring existence of a secular State has the greatest difficulty from religious/theists persons in political authority. They can't be free and fair to followers to all religions for their individual biases because a person is first an individual, then a family-person, then a social creature, and lastly a political authority. Since, the first three of these statuses of the person have religious biases, his/her fourth status can't be free from this bias. So very existence of theism and religions mars possibility of a secular State unless those in political authority are atheists.
A religious person may subscribe to secularism by recognizing everyone else's rights to follow faiths of their individual choices. But, the religious persons are regularly persuaded to be fanatic about their respective religions, and this influence, they forget rights of others and follow path of secularism. Conversely, an atheist is by own nature itself is certainly a subscriber of secularism by heart and mind. Other humanistic aspects that the atheists have above all creeds of religious people are discussed below.
Fairness without Fear
Some of the theists follow path of truthfulness for their belief that God is observing all their deeds and if they speak a lie, they shall be punished by Him sooner or later. Although such a fear is baseless, this has a sobering influence of these theists. This is good for the society in some way, but is not right from morality point of view. Doing something under fear is against human moral standards. Apart from these few God-fearing theists, all others know it in their heart and mind that the very concept of God is a falsehood and aimed at cheating others. Higher the level of theistic displays in the person, more is his/her knowledge about falsehood of the concept of God. This makes them more immoral than anybody else. Conversely, all atheists have no fears and are thoughtful and courageous persons. For these attributes, they stick to moral values and stay fair under all circumstances without any fear.
Unbiased Opinions
Atheists are free from religious biases and their multiplicities, so they have a higher possibility of having a free and fair opinion on any matter related to humanity. Because of an all-pervading influence of religions, a religious bias touches all aspects of life of a theist and prevents his/her mind to think freely and fairly as a matter of habit. Religious institutions add fuel to this fire against humanity. This also mars their thinking capabilities.
Truly Democratic
All religions of the world have evolved to be autocratic in nature and functionality in line with the imagined autocracy of God. Thus, in the realm of God and religions, there exists no possibility of a true democracy which is so far considered to be best system of governance of a humanity. Thus religions and theism bias the people in favor of anti-democratic autocracy which is against the evolved conscience of humanity to be democratic. It is only the atheists, who can afford to be truly democratic.
Free Thinkers
All religions are dictum of their prophets and divinities and no body is ever allowed to speak against them. Some religions even prescribe inhuman punishments to those expressing their free thoughts on God and religions. Thus, religious followers can never be free thinkers as a matter of their evolved natures of being religious. Conversely, all atheists are free to think and they practice it as a matter of their individual habits. For them logic plays the superior-most role in their lives which is part and parcel of thinking process.
Creative Beings
All arts and sciences are the most refined forms of creative expressions. Out of these, arts have limited roles of entertainment in human life while sciences influence every aspect of it leading the humanity to be more civilized and more creative. Religions are generally against scientific way of life and thinking and hence prevent scientific creativity in their followers. On the other hand, atheists are of scientific temper and they are atheists for their being of scientific temper and continuously nourishing this trait of theirs.
Neutrality and Arbitrariness
Freethinkers: A History of American SecularismHumans, for having the most developed intellect of all forms of life, must be guided by their own free conscience but the religions put social and parental pressures on each individual since birth and make him unable to make his/her free choice of faith. So, religious persons are reduced to less than the true humans with intellect. Conversely, the atheists are free from such psychological bondages and so are neutral in their decisions.
This drives the point that true secularism could be achieved through wiping out all religions from the earth. Further in that case, no secularism will ever be needed.
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