Through the years, I have written a lot about the tragedy that came as a global -and monstruous-earthquake over the Ancient World, that is, the coming of Abrahamanic Religion in the disguise of Christianity, which later on was "crowned" with the arrival of Islam. Still today one is hearing -with helpless dismay- that we must worship some character that has lived 2000 years ago. And that this character is alive, and that this character has "died for us", and that this character is going to save us...Forever.
That those that are advocating this unfounded belief come from a religion that has slaugthered the body, soul and mind of millions through the centuries, is something that apparently goes on without further comments.
This is one leg of the threefold table.
Then we have the father and mother of this global conspiracy that has passed through the ages as something respectable, and more, even quite holy, the Jewish texts that proclaim a so called God that thrives through the decapitation of children and the slaughtering of women and the torture of men. A so called "God" that is Jealous, and vindictive, and who -what a coincidence- asks for human sacrifices.
Then we have the third leg of the table. Those that even today put into practice and give that so called "God" what he apparently needs, the flesh and blood of the "infidels". Inviting self-immolation and treating women as a sort of lesser animal in the worst possible sense.
The maintenance of this kind of "reasoning" is damaging for brain evolution. I will repeat and clarify:
To sustain most of the so called "religious thinking" goes against brain evolution and in fact damages human nervous system possibilities in terms of evolution of its higher faculties. Indeed the higher instances of the brain are atrophied, and the most primitive ones are enhanced.
These are simple facts than only people with no knowledge of the human brain and nervous system could ignore or deny.
I wanted to make my point clear, because sometimes I have pointed my guns against people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, "accusing" them of lacking enough information and/or experience about what Religion may mean at large.
There is a very important part of Religion, that most so called "religious" people as well as so called "atheists" like Dawkins and Harris simply ignore. That is the "Re-ligare" aspect, the Perception of Unity in Nature and the Universe. This perception is the natural state of a well functioning brain and nervous system, and of course, has nothing to do with organized religion of any sort. In fact, is a perception that cannot be sustained into the framework of organized religion.
I have stated very clearly my position toward people engaged into organized religion. Now let me be also clear about what I think about so called "atheists". It is a contradiction in terms of the most ordinary kind.
What does "atheist" mean?
They are negating a negation in itself.
If they say that "God" -whatever that may mean to them-does not exist, how and why they could be "atheists".
What would you think of people that call themselves "Adonaldists" or Amickeymousics". Could someone with a sound mind define himself or herself as a denier of the existence of Donald the Duck and Mickey Mouse?
Now, you tell me, how could people with a sound scientific background as Dawkins and Harris -and so many others- come with this self-defeating nonesense?
I will tell you how:
They have been taken by the Religious Meme, from the reversed side, which is part of the same "coin". The meme grows from both the support of active believers and active disbelievers.
I propose to let the Meme alone. Do not feed it in any way. Let the Meme starve!
Thriving, instead, in the Direct Perception of Reality.
And then let see what happens.
Manuel Gerardo Monasterio, Walden, Cordoba,Argentina,on March 5th 2010 (of the false calendar)
