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I may be an idiot, but I still believe in mankind?s greatness. I still believe that we are capable of doing things that have the ability to dwarf any other accomplishment that we?ve done in the past. I honestly believe that religion is the main reason that we haven?t been able to make great advances in our medical sciences over the past hundred years. Religion is a fundamental evil that we humans, humanity itself, has been forced to deal with for thousands of years now. It was created as a simplistic way to explain common events that our primitive brains could not comprehend. You see a lightning bolt? That?s Zeus throwing his weapon at you, you?ve offended the gods. Instead of working out the event using critical thinking, you instead attribute it to the great unknown, you give in to the believe that there is a force out there much greater than yourself so you believe that that force is what drives your very existence.
Nearly all of the major religions share the same attributes, especially when concerning their version of god or savior. Eventually, religions share another attribute which is the single worst thing that can happen to man: they teach men to be afraid of the great unknown. Question your god?s infallibility? You get to spend eternity in your respective version of hell. Get out of line by trying to invent your way out of a problem, rather than turn to a magical unicorn with a shiny hat? Blasphemy! If we as a species can survive all of the crazed religious zealot fundamentalists of the world in the here and the now, surely religion will eventually fade into utter obscurity and will be remembered by all of our future ancestors as an absurdity.
In essence? I truly believe that the sky is the limit for the human race. We are capable of so much more than what the religious freaks of the world would have you believe. Instead of living for a make believe deity and an afterlife that consists of eating clouds made of marshmallow, we should start living for the here and the now. No.. for our children?s futures, and for their children?s futures, we HAVE to start living for the here and the now. We need to make our world healthy again, we need to better our earth because just face it folks: We don?t have another home. There isn?t a magical land of unicorns when you die. All we have is the here and the now? the legacy we leave behind here today needs to be for our children to have a far better life than we had.
When we look and head towards the future, we should be looking for a way to live with no wars and no famine, with no diseases. If we continue to look to books of pure fantasy to solve all of our answers, will we ever be able to achieve all of this? Will we as a species be able to achieve ANY of this? You can?t be oppressed by religious chains any longer people. Life is just far too short for you to be worried about offending a unicorn wearing a shiny hat. Don?t live your life just to die people. Live your life to live.
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