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data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/album-garda_big.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Sunrise at Lago di Garda\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022960\u0022 height=\u0022540\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei took this picture exactly 12 years ago, early in the morning, at lake garda in italy.\nit\u0027s a very special photo for me \u2013 it marks a day i now consider the first day of my new life \u263a\ufe0f\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eas a teen i used to partake in language courses in padova, italy.\nthey were organized by an order of catholic monks whose main mission is to\u2026 pray for more priests.\ni\u0027m really grateful to have had this experience. i was able to go on a vacation to a beautiful country\npractically for free \u2013 not something that my former family could afford otherwise,\nor at least not for like 6 years in a row. i\u0027ve learned a language there, spent amazing time with friends,\nhad plenty of valuable new experiences, got crazy, learned to be a bit of bad boy too.\ni\u0027ve learned so much about myself over there\u2026 padova trips have always been time for reflection and self-discovery,\na break from reality, with a mysthical atmosphere (at least in my head), perfect for prayer and soul-searching.\ni\u0027ve spent hours upon hours in the chapel or on a windowsill in a quiet part of the building,\ncontemplating my life, ethical dilemmas,\ntrying to reconcile my sexuality with my faith, my faith with my reason\u2026\nlearning how to be a person.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ebut those trips weren\u0027t being organised purely out of the priests\u0027 good hearts, of course.\nconsidering that their main mission is to get god to send them more priests,\nan implicit goal of those courses was to recruit us to join a seminary. oh well, mission failed successfully\n\u2013 i really did find my true calling there, but it wasn\u0027t what they\u0027d like \ud83d\ude05\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ethe last year i was there felt different than all the rest. least of all because it was happening in a different city, desenzano de garda.\nmy life had already gotten so much different at that point. i was 19, finally legally an adult.\ni have passed my high school exams (which are, nomen omen, called \u201cmatura\u201d in polish \u2013 \u201cthe maturity exam\u201d), started uni,\ni was seriously doubting my faith and openly questioning it during catechism classes at school (yes, it\u0027s a thing in poland)\nand in conversations with priests etc. i came out to myself as queer; then to a few closest friends.\ni started dating. i gained my first sexual experience (i refuse to call it \u201closing my virginity\u201d \ud83e\udd2e).\nall of that a span of last year or so.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ejust a few weeks before desenzano i also went to regional catholic youth days \u2013 not just as a participant,\nbut also as a \u201ccamp counselor\u201d \/ \u201cguardian\u201d for a bunch of teens from my parish.\ni remember taking advantage of the perks and freedom that came with it, by cutting myself some slack in my ongoing cosplay as a christian \u2013\ni was skipping most church services, and instead was hanging out with my friends \/ wards, and playing guitar together\u2026\nmy gay friend lived in a village near where the youth days were taking place \u2013 so one day he came to meet me,\nand we were openly cuddling in front of a park full of nuns and catholic teens.\nthis was one of my first, relatively subtle coming outs, as well as acts of rebellion against the church,\nthe homophobic society and the patriarchy.\ni remember it feeling so freeing, so empowering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei remember wearing very faggy, green skinny jeans over there. i was just starting to develop my style\u2026\nnah, not just that, but i started to even \u003Cem\u003Ecare\u003C\/em\u003E how i look and what i wear in the first place.\nwhen i look back my old photos, ugh\u2026 no wonder i was so unfuckable in high school,\ni wouldn\u0027t invite that old me to a party either \ud83d\ude05\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eanyways\u2026 back to desenzano. it was different than the previous years in padova. after years of personal arguments\nbetween organisers, us teenagers behaving terribly, and a bunch of other drama, we weren\u0027t welcome in padova anymore.\nbut in desenzano i didn\u0027t \u003Cem\u003Efeel\u003C\/em\u003E welcome either. or at least i didn\u0027t feel like i belonged.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei barely even remember that trip to be honest. a few random memories. only one of them in the local chapel.\ni remember that even though i was there for the services, i didn\u0027t pray anymore\u2026 like, i recited prayers, sure, but that\u0027s different.\nit\u0027s my first clear memory of not believing, just performing faith.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei definitely have been doing that for a while at that point \u2013 but that the first moment i can pinpoint in time and space.\nit\u0027s the first moment when i could not only say that i\u0027m gay and an atheist, but also that i \u003Cem\u003Eknow\u003C\/em\u003E that,\nthat i\u0027m \u003Cem\u003Esure\u003C\/em\u003E of that. i knew i was already a different person by then, i knew that the thing i was doing right now\nwas something that i\u0027m leaving behind.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei think there was talk that the course wouldn\u0027t continue next year, i\u0027m not sure.\nbut i definitely knew that it was a goodbye for me. from the trips, from italy, from the church,\nfrom my community and from my former family.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ealthough there are so many things about them all that i\u0027m gonna miss terribly, on that day i wasn\u0027t feeling sad.\ni don\u0027t remember anymore what kind of stupid interpersonal drama was playing out there,\nbut even though i was a queer heretic coming back to live with their fundamentalist parents,\ni was feeling kinda happy to leave that place. bittersweet. mostly, i was relieved.\ni didn\u0027t fit in with that community anymore, and i was at peace with that and the decision to leave it behind over time.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eover the next year and a bit i would come out to my parents, get outed by them to the rest of the family,\nfinally stopped going to church, met my future husband, moved out, and started my life as an independent adult.\nit\u0027s been a long and painful process.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ebut also a beautiful one \u2013 because it was the process of\u2026 becoming me.\ni realised \u003Cem\u003Ei don\u0027t have to\u003C\/em\u003E be a miserable, unhappy clone of my parents.\nthere is a \u201cme\u201d out there that i \u003Cem\u003Ewant to\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003Ecan\u003C\/em\u003E be.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eso if i am to celebrate that process somehow, i can think of no better moment to mark the occasion\nthan in that beautiful sunset, over that beautiful lake, early on that refreshingly warm morning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["faith","atheism","coming out","queer","new life","rebirth","celebration"],"hasMore":true,"image":"https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/album-garda_small.jpg","introLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/album-garda_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/album-garda_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Sunrise at Lago di Garda\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022135\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei took this picture exactly 12 years ago, early in the morning, at lake garda in italy.\nit\u0027s a very special photo for me \u2013 it marks a day i now consider the first day of my new life \u263a\ufe0f\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/album-garda_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/album-garda_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Sunrise at Lago di Garda\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022135\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei took this picture exactly 12 years ago, early in the morning, at lake garda in italy.\nit\u0027s a very special photo for me \u2013 it marks a day i now consider the first day of my new life \u263a\ufe0f\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eas a teen i used to partake in language courses in padova, italy.\nthey were organized by an order of catholic monks whose main mission is to\u2026 pray for more priests.\ni\u0027m really grateful to have had this experience. i was able to go on a vacation to a beautiful country\npractically for free \u2013 not something that my former family could afford otherwise,\nor at least not for like 6 years in a row. i\u0027ve learned a language there, spent amazing time with friends,\nhad plenty of valuable new experiences, got crazy, learned to be a bit of bad boy too.\ni\u0027ve learned so much about myself over there\u2026 padova trips have always been time for reflection and self-discovery,\na break from reality, with a mysthical atmosphere (at least in my head), perfect for prayer and soul-searching.\ni\u0027ve spent hours upon hours in the chapel or on a windowsill in a quiet part of the building,\ncontemplating my life, ethical dilemmas,\ntrying to reconcile my sexuality with my faith, my faith with my reason\u2026\nlearning how to be a person.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ebut those trips weren\u0027t being organised purely out of the priests\u0027 good hearts, of course.\nconsidering that their main mission is to get god to send them more priests,\nan implicit goal of those courses was to recruit us to join a seminary. oh well, mission failed successfully\n\u2013 i really did find my true calling there, but it wasn\u0027t what they\u0027d like \ud83d\ude05\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ethe last year i was there felt different than all the rest. least of all because it was happening in a different city, desenzano de garda.\nmy life had already gotten so much different at that point. i was 19, finally legally an adult.\ni have passed my high school exams (which are, nomen omen, called \u201cmatura\u201d in polish \u2013 \u201cthe maturity exam\u201d), started uni,\ni was seriously doubting my faith and openly questioning it during catechism classes at school (yes, it\u0027s a thing in poland)\nand in conversations with priests etc. i came out to myself as queer; then to a few closest friends.\ni started dating. i gained my first sexual experience (i refuse to call it \u201closing my virginity\u201d \ud83e\udd2e).\nall of that a span of last year or so.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ejust a few weeks before desenzano i also went to regional catholic youth days \u2013 not just as a participant,\nbut also as a \u201ccamp counselor\u201d \/ \u201cguardian\u201d for a bunch of teens from my parish.\ni remember taking advantage of the perks and freedom that came with it, by cutting myself some slack in my ongoing cosplay as a christian \u2013\ni was skipping most church services, and instead was hanging out with my friends \/ wards, and playing guitar together\u2026\nmy gay friend lived in a village near where the youth days were taking place \u2013 so one day he came to meet me,\nand we were openly cuddling in front of a park full of nuns and catholic teens.\nthis was one of my first, relatively subtle coming outs, as well as acts of rebellion against the church,\nthe homophobic society and the patriarchy.\ni remember it feeling so freeing, so empowering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei remember wearing very faggy, green skinny jeans over there. i was just starting to develop my style\u2026\nnah, not just that, but i started to even \u003Cem\u003Ecare\u003C\/em\u003E how i look and what i wear in the first place.\nwhen i look back my old photos, ugh\u2026 no wonder i was so unfuckable in high school,\ni wouldn\u0027t invite that old me to a party either \ud83d\ude05\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eanyways\u2026 back to desenzano. it was different than the previous years in padova. after years of personal arguments\nbetween organisers, us teenagers behaving terribly, and a bunch of other drama, we weren\u0027t welcome in padova anymore.\nbut in desenzano i didn\u0027t \u003Cem\u003Efeel\u003C\/em\u003E welcome either. or at least i didn\u0027t feel like i belonged.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei barely even remember that trip to be honest. a few random memories. only one of them in the local chapel.\ni remember that even though i was there for the services, i didn\u0027t pray anymore\u2026 like, i recited prayers, sure, but that\u0027s different.\nit\u0027s my first clear memory of not believing, just performing faith.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei definitely have been doing that for a while at that point \u2013 but that the first moment i can pinpoint in time and space.\nit\u0027s the first moment when i could not only say that i\u0027m gay and an atheist, but also that i \u003Cem\u003Eknow\u003C\/em\u003E that,\nthat i\u0027m \u003Cem\u003Esure\u003C\/em\u003E of that. i knew i was already a different person by then, i knew that the thing i was doing right now\nwas something that i\u0027m leaving behind.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ei think there was talk that the course wouldn\u0027t continue next year, i\u0027m not sure.\nbut i definitely knew that it was a goodbye for me. from the trips, from italy, from the church,\nfrom my community and from my former family.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ealthough there are so many things about them all that i\u0027m gonna miss terribly, on that day i wasn\u0027t feeling sad.\ni don\u0027t remember anymore what kind of stupid interpersonal drama was playing out there,\nbut even though i was a queer heretic coming back to live with their fundamentalist parents,\ni was feeling kinda happy to leave that place. bittersweet. mostly, i was relieved.\ni didn\u0027t fit in with that community anymore, and i was at peace with that and the decision to leave it behind over time.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eover the next year and a bit i would come out to my parents, get outed by them to the rest of the family,\nfinally stopped going to church, met my future husband, moved out, and started my life as an independent adult.\nit\u0027s been a long and painful process.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Ebut also a beautiful one \u2013 because it was the process of\u2026 becoming me.\ni realised \u003Cem\u003Ei don\u0027t have to\u003C\/em\u003E be a miserable, unhappy clone of my parents.\nthere is a \u201cme\u201d out there that i \u003Cem\u003Ewant to\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003Ecan\u003C\/em\u003E be.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eso if i am to celebrate that process somehow, i can think of no better moment to mark the occasion\nthan in that beautiful sunset, over that beautiful lake, early on that refreshingly warm morning.\u003C\/p\u003E","words":1065,"readTime":5,"lang":"en"}}},"blog\/mythology\/religion-isn-t-really-on-my-mind-anymore":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/religion-isn-t-really-on-my-mind-anymore","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2022-06-03T13:19:48+02:00","publishedAt":"2022-06-03T13:19:48+02:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"religion-isn-t-really-on-my-mind-anymore"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"religion-isn-t-really-on-my-mind-anymore","title":"Religion isn\u0027t really on my mind anymore","intro":"\u003Cp\u003ERecently, I\u0027m getting approached online by people trying to pick a fight about religion\nand about how terrible I am for not being a fan (to put it mildly).\nWhich surprised me quite a bit, since I honestly don\u0027t remember the last time religion was even properly on my mind,\nlet alone having brought up this topic publicly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cp\u003ERecently, I\u0027m getting approached online by people trying to pick a fight about religion\nand about how terrible I am for not being a fan (to put it mildly).\nWhich surprised me quite a bit, since I honestly don\u0027t remember the last time religion was even properly on my mind,\nlet alone having brought up this topic publicly.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESure, it used to haunt me for years. I was brought up very religiously,\nI wasted tons of time in church, on prayers, and on trying to reconcile the scientific knowledge of the world\nwith the massively anti-scientific views presented to me as facts in church and school\n(yes, school, I had more religion lessons in school than biology or physics).\nReligion and the process of freeing my mind of religious thinking, used to be a huge part of my live.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0027ve spent years on researching other religions and non-religious points of view, making up my mind,\nreverting my conditioning; but now it\u0027s just\u2026 not there anymore.\nNow I can separate facts from mythology, I\u0027m happy to live in a secular country,\nI\u0027m not in touch with the birth family, I haven\u0027t been in a church for years, nor have I been proselytised to (much).\nBasically, the topic of religion became so \u003Cem\u003Eirrelevant\u003C\/em\u003E to me that I needed some internet users looking for a debate\nto remind me that it\u0027s a thing, and one that has shaped me so profoundly.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo here\u0027s a thing: I\u0027m happier that way. Openly challenging religion and hearing the same old boring counterarguments\nover and over again was unbeliveably exhausting. And also quite pointless at this point.\nI\u0027ve already said all I wanted to say, I put in writing my reasoning, my anger, my experiences.\nI made sure I had heard everything that could possibly change my mind.\nAnd now I\u0027m basically done \ud83e\udd37\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut\u2026 now that the strong emotions are gone it might be worth pointing out a few things, at least so that people stop bothering me:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJust because I\u0027m not religious and explicitly anti-religion, doesn\u0027t mean I hate religious \u003Cem\u003Epeople\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E.\nI used to be very religious myself, after all \u2013 so I know perfectly well why do people fall for religion.\nIt\u0027s a very enticing scam \u2013 just like astrology, fortune-telling or homeopathy,\nexcept much bigger thanks to passing it on from generation to generation.\nBut speaking out against the scam and the scammers doesn\u0027t mean I hate its victims.\nInforming them about how the scam works and letting out my own frustration about having been scammed in the past\nisn\u0027t the same as hating them.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EI\u0027m absolutely against religious people being persecuted, discriminated against, or having any less rights than anyone else\u003C\/strong\u003E.\nThere are, though, unearned privileges granted to churches in many countries that I\u0027m openly against:\ntax brakes, blasphemy laws, influence on politics, even automatic membership of bishops in the parliament, and more.\nMe saying \u201cthere\u0027s no reason for a church to get a tax break or a for bishop to be guaranteed a seat in the House of Lords\u201d\nisn\u0027t in any way comparable to homophobes calling me slurs, threatening physical violence,\nor legally preventing me from marrying the person I love.\nI get it, me attacking your religion \u003Cem\u003Efeels like\u003C\/em\u003E a personal attack on you \u2013 but it\u0027s not.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReligion isn\u0027t like queerness. It just isn\u0027t.\u003C\/strong\u003E\nI get comments like \u201cyou don\u0027t wanna be attacked for being queer, but you attack religious people?\u201d,\nand it\u0027s such a misplaced comparison. Religion is a belief system, an ideology, an opinion.\nIt\u0027s a subject of debate and criticism.\nTelling a gay person \u201chere are ten reasons why you should stop being gay\u201d would be as pointless\nas explaining to a black person why they should stop being black.\nHowever, persuading people to change their \u003Cem\u003Eopinions\u003C\/em\u003E, including religion, is a perfectly normal thing to do.\nReligious people do it all the time, trying to convert others to their faith!\nYes, it\u0027s possible to discriminate against someone based on their religion,\nand there have been plenty of religious wars and people suffering just because of what they believe in \u2013\nbut me saying \u201cI don\u0027t respect your beliefs, I actually consider them harmful\u201d is nowhere near any of that.\nMe simply saying \u201cI\u0027m not religious, and I believe the society would be better off if nobody was\u201d,\nand explaining why I believe so, is not discrimination.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYes, I do recognise the value of religion in the past, its influence on art, philosophy and even science.\u003C\/strong\u003E\nSure, I\u0027d argue that all of them would probably be perfectly fine, if not better, without the patronage of churches,\nsince the human need to express ourselves and to understand the world around us is universal,\nbut I have to set aside the what-ifs and admit that in the universe we \u003Cem\u003Edo\u003C\/em\u003E live in, the reality has been shaped by religion on a large scale.\nNot just that, I\u0027ll admit that in the past believing in a higher power was actually\u2026 a pretty reasonable thing to do \u2013\nin the absence of better explanations of the world, I\u0027d probably be religious too.\nBut that\u0027s the past. We now live in the world soooo massively different from how it looked like millenia, centuries or even decades ago.\nClinging to outdated belief systems that aren\u0027t compatible with our modern understanding of the universe \u2013\njust because it used to have value in the past \u2013 just doesn\u0027t sound like a good idea to me.\nWe can appreciate the past without still living in it.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYes, I do mean all religions.\u003C\/strong\u003E\nMy personal experience might have been euro- and catholicism-centric,\nbut it\u0027s not like I know nothing about other mythologies; I spent a lot of time in my teens getting acquainted with alternatives,\nfrom different branches of protestantism, to islam, buddhism, taoism or pantheism;\nI was clinging to the religious way of seeing the world while trying to escape the homophobia and dogmatism of catholicism.\nSure, religions are diverse. Some are more queerphobic, others less. Some are more internally consistent, others less.\nSome are more compatible with the scientific facts, others less. Some are more harmful and entitled, others less.\nBut in the big picture they\u0027re all saying the same thing:\n\u201cI claim to know how the world works based on something that ultimately can\u0027t be traced to anything other than some person making it up,\nI can\u0027t provide any convincing proof or evidence for my claims, but you must believe what I\u0027m saying and give me money, or be punished\u201d.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMany people have tried to convince me over the years that I should believe this or that thing.\nAnd honestly, I\u0027m tired of listening to them.\nIf there\u0027s no evidence to what you\u0027re saying, I\u0027m not believing it, simple as that.\nI\u0027m not going to no hell, there\u0027s no samsara, and thunders aren\u0027t cast by Zeus.\nAnd I\u0027m justifiably angry for having been fed those lies in the past by people financially and politically profiting from it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven though I know it wasn\u0027t my fault in any way, I still feel embarrassed and kinda sorry for having been religious.\nThe world would be so much nicer, if we collectively cared more for evidence and reason \u2013\nand I used to be a part of a system actively working against that goal.\nOh well, I did my part trying to counteract that. It was exhausting, and I\u0027m done.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELike, I\u0027m still against religion, I\u0027m still gonna speak up against it if necessary,\nI\u0027m still gonna have an occasional chuckle at its expense \u2013\nbut having taken an hour to write down those afterthoughts above is basically the limit of\nhow much I\u0027m willing to let the topic of religion occupy my mind anymore.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor me, life without religion is amazing \u2013 and that includes flame wars about religion.\nI\u0027m done. Please don\u0027t at me.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["faith","religion","indoctrination","abuse","respect","santa claus","mythology","bigotry","atheism","science"],"hasMore":true,"image":null,"introLite":"\u003Cp\u003ERecently, I\u0027m getting approached online by people trying to pick a fight about religion\nand about how terrible I am for not being a fan (to put it mildly).\nWhich surprised me quite a bit, since I honestly don\u0027t remember the last time religion was even properly on my mind,\nlet alone having brought up this topic publicly.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cp\u003ERecently, I\u0027m getting approached online by people trying to pick a fight about religion\nand about how terrible I am for not being a fan (to put it mildly).\nWhich surprised me quite a bit, since I honestly don\u0027t remember the last time religion was even properly on my mind,\nlet alone having brought up this topic publicly.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESure, it used to haunt me for years. I was brought up very religiously,\nI wasted tons of time in church, on prayers, and on trying to reconcile the scientific knowledge of the world\nwith the massively anti-scientific views presented to me as facts in church and school\n(yes, school, I had more religion lessons in school than biology or physics).\nReligion and the process of freeing my mind of religious thinking, used to be a huge part of my live.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0027ve spent years on researching other religions and non-religious points of view, making up my mind,\nreverting my conditioning; but now it\u0027s just\u2026 not there anymore.\nNow I can separate facts from mythology, I\u0027m happy to live in a secular country,\nI\u0027m not in touch with the birth family, I haven\u0027t been in a church for years, nor have I been proselytised to (much).\nBasically, the topic of religion became so \u003Cem\u003Eirrelevant\u003C\/em\u003E to me that I needed some internet users looking for a debate\nto remind me that it\u0027s a thing, and one that has shaped me so profoundly.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo here\u0027s a thing: I\u0027m happier that way. Openly challenging religion and hearing the same old boring counterarguments\nover and over again was unbeliveably exhausting. And also quite pointless at this point.\nI\u0027ve already said all I wanted to say, I put in writing my reasoning, my anger, my experiences.\nI made sure I had heard everything that could possibly change my mind.\nAnd now I\u0027m basically done \ud83e\udd37\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut\u2026 now that the strong emotions are gone it might be worth pointing out a few things, at least so that people stop bothering me:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJust because I\u0027m not religious and explicitly anti-religion, doesn\u0027t mean I hate religious \u003Cem\u003Epeople\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E.\nI used to be very religious myself, after all \u2013 so I know perfectly well why do people fall for religion.\nIt\u0027s a very enticing scam \u2013 just like astrology, fortune-telling or homeopathy,\nexcept much bigger thanks to passing it on from generation to generation.\nBut speaking out against the scam and the scammers doesn\u0027t mean I hate its victims.\nInforming them about how the scam works and letting out my own frustration about having been scammed in the past\nisn\u0027t the same as hating them.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EI\u0027m absolutely against religious people being persecuted, discriminated against, or having any less rights than anyone else\u003C\/strong\u003E.\nThere are, though, unearned privileges granted to churches in many countries that I\u0027m openly against:\ntax brakes, blasphemy laws, influence on politics, even automatic membership of bishops in the parliament, and more.\nMe saying \u201cthere\u0027s no reason for a church to get a tax break or a for bishop to be guaranteed a seat in the House of Lords\u201d\nisn\u0027t in any way comparable to homophobes calling me slurs, threatening physical violence,\nor legally preventing me from marrying the person I love.\nI get it, me attacking your religion \u003Cem\u003Efeels like\u003C\/em\u003E a personal attack on you \u2013 but it\u0027s not.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReligion isn\u0027t like queerness. It just isn\u0027t.\u003C\/strong\u003E\nI get comments like \u201cyou don\u0027t wanna be attacked for being queer, but you attack religious people?\u201d,\nand it\u0027s such a misplaced comparison. Religion is a belief system, an ideology, an opinion.\nIt\u0027s a subject of debate and criticism.\nTelling a gay person \u201chere are ten reasons why you should stop being gay\u201d would be as pointless\nas explaining to a black person why they should stop being black.\nHowever, persuading people to change their \u003Cem\u003Eopinions\u003C\/em\u003E, including religion, is a perfectly normal thing to do.\nReligious people do it all the time, trying to convert others to their faith!\nYes, it\u0027s possible to discriminate against someone based on their religion,\nand there have been plenty of religious wars and people suffering just because of what they believe in \u2013\nbut me saying \u201cI don\u0027t respect your beliefs, I actually consider them harmful\u201d is nowhere near any of that.\nMe simply saying \u201cI\u0027m not religious, and I believe the society would be better off if nobody was\u201d,\nand explaining why I believe so, is not discrimination.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYes, I do recognise the value of religion in the past, its influence on art, philosophy and even science.\u003C\/strong\u003E\nSure, I\u0027d argue that all of them would probably be perfectly fine, if not better, without the patronage of churches,\nsince the human need to express ourselves and to understand the world around us is universal,\nbut I have to set aside the what-ifs and admit that in the universe we \u003Cem\u003Edo\u003C\/em\u003E live in, the reality has been shaped by religion on a large scale.\nNot just that, I\u0027ll admit that in the past believing in a higher power was actually\u2026 a pretty reasonable thing to do \u2013\nin the absence of better explanations of the world, I\u0027d probably be religious too.\nBut that\u0027s the past. We now live in the world soooo massively different from how it looked like millenia, centuries or even decades ago.\nClinging to outdated belief systems that aren\u0027t compatible with our modern understanding of the universe \u2013\njust because it used to have value in the past \u2013 just doesn\u0027t sound like a good idea to me.\nWe can appreciate the past without still living in it.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYes, I do mean all religions.\u003C\/strong\u003E\nMy personal experience might have been euro- and catholicism-centric,\nbut it\u0027s not like I know nothing about other mythologies; I spent a lot of time in my teens getting acquainted with alternatives,\nfrom different branches of protestantism, to islam, buddhism, taoism or pantheism;\nI was clinging to the religious way of seeing the world while trying to escape the homophobia and dogmatism of catholicism.\nSure, religions are diverse. Some are more queerphobic, others less. Some are more internally consistent, others less.\nSome are more compatible with the scientific facts, others less. Some are more harmful and entitled, others less.\nBut in the big picture they\u0027re all saying the same thing:\n\u201cI claim to know how the world works based on something that ultimately can\u0027t be traced to anything other than some person making it up,\nI can\u0027t provide any convincing proof or evidence for my claims, but you must believe what I\u0027m saying and give me money, or be punished\u201d.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMany people have tried to convince me over the years that I should believe this or that thing.\nAnd honestly, I\u0027m tired of listening to them.\nIf there\u0027s no evidence to what you\u0027re saying, I\u0027m not believing it, simple as that.\nI\u0027m not going to no hell, there\u0027s no samsara, and thunders aren\u0027t cast by Zeus.\nAnd I\u0027m justifiably angry for having been fed those lies in the past by people financially and politically profiting from it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEven though I know it wasn\u0027t my fault in any way, I still feel embarrassed and kinda sorry for having been religious.\nThe world would be so much nicer, if we collectively cared more for evidence and reason \u2013\nand I used to be a part of a system actively working against that goal.\nOh well, I did my part trying to counteract that. It was exhausting, and I\u0027m done.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELike, I\u0027m still against religion, I\u0027m still gonna speak up against it if necessary,\nI\u0027m still gonna have an occasional chuckle at its expense \u2013\nbut having taken an hour to write down those afterthoughts above is basically the limit of\nhow much I\u0027m willing to let the topic of religion occupy my mind anymore.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor me, life without religion is amazing \u2013 and that includes flame wars about religion.\nI\u0027m done. Please don\u0027t at me.\u003C\/p\u003E","words":1300,"readTime":6,"lang":"en"}}},"blog\/mythology\/how-dare-we":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/how-dare-we","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2020-12-28T18:26:51+01:00","publishedAt":"2020-12-28T18:26:51+01:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"how-dare-we"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"how-dare-we","title":"How dare we?","intro":"\u003Cp\u003EMy favourite quote from professor Richard Dawkins\nis not the one where he calls the God of the Old testament a \u201ccapriciously malevolent bully\u201d,\nor any of those where he otherwise openly mocks religion.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0027s one where he doesn\u0027t even mention religion at all, even though he\u0027s destroying its very foundations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cp\u003EMy favourite quote from professor Richard Dawkins\nis not the one where he calls the God of the Old testament a \u201ccapriciously malevolent bully\u201d,\nor any of those where he otherwise openly mocks religion.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0027s one where he doesn\u0027t even mention religion at all, even though he\u0027s destroying its very foundations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(Btw, the quote also got \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qrMwxe2ya5E\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E featured\u003C\/a\u003E in \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/the-greatest-song-on-earth\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-heartbeat\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E The Greatest Song on Earth\u003C\/a\u003E \u2764\ufe0f)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI first read it in his 1998 book \u201cUnweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder\u201d.\nIt was a turning point of my journey towards abandoning the Catholic mythology.\nIt removed the greatest obstacle on the road of rationalism: the fear of death.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0027s the quote:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022blockquote ml-4 pl-4 border-left\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.\nMost people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.\nThe potential people who could have been here in my place\nbut who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.\nCertainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.\nWe know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people.\nIn the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.\nWe privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds,\nhow dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state\nfrom which the vast majority have never stirred?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYes. How dare we? How dare we!?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0027m convinced that every major religion exists for just two main reasons:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Epeople used to have no idea where did they come from and how the world works,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Epeople are terrified of death.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMaking up a story that (poorly) answers \u201cthe big questions\u201d, while also giving you hope that death is not the end,\nis not a perfect idea, but I guess better than nothing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow we have science though! But while it helps with the first part tremendously,\nmy mind was still struggling to give up religion because of the second part\u2026\nDeath is scary, it\u0027s unknown\u2026 Pretending that it\u0027s not real is so very soothing\u2026\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EReligion\u0027s approach to death is to give promises that it can\u0027t deliver,\nwhile using your fear to make you behave the way they want you to (or else you\u0027ll burn in hell!).\nPriests are wolves in sheep\u0027s clothing \u2013 their fairy tales sound soothing, but really they just enslave your mind.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDawkins doesn\u0027t try to be nice or soothing. Instead of making up a story that will make you feel better,\nhe scolds you for demanding a story in the first place.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeath is just an end of something beautiful. Focus on the beautiful. Appreciate the beautiful.\nYou won a fucking lottery of existence! So appreciate it, make the best out of it while you can.\nJust don\u0027t be so arrogant as to demand that it lasted forever.\nIt won\u0027t. You\u0027ll have to deal with it. It\u0027s harsh, but it\u0027s true. And accepting it is liberating.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe quote might sound like it\u0027s about death, but for me it\u0027s more about \u003Cem\u003Elife\u003C\/em\u003E, actually.\nIt puts life into a proper perspective. It makes you focus on the joy and gratitude instead of fear.\nOn the process instead of its end.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccepting that I\u0027m going to die, inevitably, without any \u201cafterlife\u201d to look forward to,\nrealising that things can be wonderful and amazing even if they don\u0027t last forever\n\u2013 that might have been the most liberating moment of my life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["life","death","fear","dawkins","rationalism","atheism","freedom","nightwish"],"hasMore":true,"image":null,"introLite":"\u003Cp\u003EMy favourite quote from professor Richard Dawkins\nis not the one where he calls the God of the Old testament a \u201ccapriciously malevolent bully\u201d,\nor any of those where he otherwise openly mocks religion.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0027s one where he doesn\u0027t even mention religion at all, even though he\u0027s destroying its very foundations.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cp\u003EMy favourite quote from professor Richard Dawkins\nis not the one where he calls the God of the Old testament a \u201ccapriciously malevolent bully\u201d,\nor any of those where he otherwise openly mocks religion.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0027s one where he doesn\u0027t even mention religion at all, even though he\u0027s destroying its very foundations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(Btw, the quote also got \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qrMwxe2ya5E\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E featured\u003C\/a\u003E in \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/the-greatest-song-on-earth.lite\u0022\u003E The Greatest Song on Earth\u003C\/a\u003E \u2764\ufe0f)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI first read it in his 1998 book \u201cUnweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder\u201d.\nIt was a turning point of my journey towards abandoning the Catholic mythology.\nIt removed the greatest obstacle on the road of rationalism: the fear of death.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0027s the quote:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.\nMost people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.\nThe potential people who could have been here in my place\nbut who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.\nCertainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.\nWe know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people.\nIn the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.\nWe privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds,\nhow dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state\nfrom which the vast majority have never stirred?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYes. How dare we? How dare we!?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0027m convinced that every major religion exists for just two main reasons:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Epeople used to have no idea where did they come from and how the world works,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Epeople are terrified of death.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMaking up a story that (poorly) answers \u201cthe big questions\u201d, while also giving you hope that death is not the end,\nis not a perfect idea, but I guess better than nothing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow we have science though! But while it helps with the first part tremendously,\nmy mind was still struggling to give up religion because of the second part\u2026\nDeath is scary, it\u0027s unknown\u2026 Pretending that it\u0027s not real is so very soothing\u2026\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EReligion\u0027s approach to death is to give promises that it can\u0027t deliver,\nwhile using your fear to make you behave the way they want you to (or else you\u0027ll burn in hell!).\nPriests are wolves in sheep\u0027s clothing \u2013 their fairy tales sound soothing, but really they just enslave your mind.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDawkins doesn\u0027t try to be nice or soothing. Instead of making up a story that will make you feel better,\nhe scolds you for demanding a story in the first place.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDeath is just an end of something beautiful. Focus on the beautiful. Appreciate the beautiful.\nYou won a fucking lottery of existence! So appreciate it, make the best out of it while you can.\nJust don\u0027t be so arrogant as to demand that it lasted forever.\nIt won\u0027t. You\u0027ll have to deal with it. It\u0027s harsh, but it\u0027s true. And accepting it is liberating.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe quote might sound like it\u0027s about death, but for me it\u0027s more about \u003Cem\u003Elife\u003C\/em\u003E, actually.\nIt puts life into a proper perspective. It makes you focus on the joy and gratitude instead of fear.\nOn the process instead of its end.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccepting that I\u0027m going to die, inevitably, without any \u201cafterlife\u201d to look forward to,\nrealising that things can be wonderful and amazing even if they don\u0027t last forever\n\u2013 that might have been the most liberating moment of my life.\u003C\/p\u003E","words":589,"readTime":3,"lang":"en"}}},"blog\/mythology\/is-antitheism-intolerant":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/is-antitheism-intolerant","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2020-01-05T00:27:17+01:00","publishedAt":"2020-01-05T00:27:17+01:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"is-antitheism-intolerant"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"is-antitheism-intolerant","title":"Is antitheism intolerant?","intro":"\u003Cp\u003EI get that a lot: \u201coh, you\u2019re gay, you demand \u003Cem\u003Etolerance\u003C\/em\u003E, but you told me\nthat my god is a mythology and that\u2019s soooo \u003Cem\u003Eintolerant\u003C\/em\u003E of you blah blah...\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWell, let me tell you how is sexual orientation different from believing in Santa Claus,\nand why tolerance has nothing to do with it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cp\u003EI get that a lot: \u201coh, you\u2019re gay, you demand \u003Cem\u003Etolerance\u003C\/em\u003E, but you told me\nthat my god is a mythology and that\u2019s soooo \u003Cem\u003Eintolerant\u003C\/em\u003E of you blah blah...\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWell, let me tell you how is sexual orientation different from believing in Santa Claus,\nand why tolerance has nothing to do with it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe thing is...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing gay, Syrian, black, trans, etc. are things that you \u003Cem\u003Eare\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing a Christian is something you \u003Cem\u003Edo\u003C\/em\u003E. You get tought religion. You go to church.\nYou recite prayers. You read a specific book and decide to believe in its content\ndespite the facts not supporting it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYour religion is an \u003Cem\u003Eidea\u003C\/em\u003E. And ideas can be challenged.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETolerance, in the meaning they meant, is about people\u2019s \u003Cem\u003Eidentities\u003C\/em\u003E.\nAbout their very existence. About their human rights.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMythologies, and this might surprise you, are \u003Cem\u003Enot\u003C\/em\u003E humans.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd yes, religious freedom is one of the human rights, but it means\nthat others cannot forbid you to believe and practice your relgion,\nand that they can\u2019t discriminate you based on your beliefs.\nIt doesn\u2019t mean that your unscientific beliefs or specific practices are protected from any criticism.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJust because I disagree with you, doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m intolerant \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffc\u200d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Chr \/\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EP.S. \u201cTolerance\u201d means \u201cputting up with something, despite disagreeing with it\u201d.\nSo me openly disagreeing with theism, while respecting people\u2019s right to believe in it,\nis pretty much tolerant by definition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["antitheism","hypocrisy","atheism","mythology","tolerance","faith"],"hasMore":true,"image":null,"introLite":"\u003Cp\u003EI get that a lot: \u201coh, you\u2019re gay, you demand \u003Cem\u003Etolerance\u003C\/em\u003E, but you told me\nthat my god is a mythology and that\u2019s soooo \u003Cem\u003Eintolerant\u003C\/em\u003E of you blah blah...\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWell, let me tell you how is sexual orientation different from believing in Santa Claus,\nand why tolerance has nothing to do with it.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cp\u003EI get that a lot: \u201coh, you\u2019re gay, you demand \u003Cem\u003Etolerance\u003C\/em\u003E, but you told me\nthat my god is a mythology and that\u2019s soooo \u003Cem\u003Eintolerant\u003C\/em\u003E of you blah blah...\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWell, let me tell you how is sexual orientation different from believing in Santa Claus,\nand why tolerance has nothing to do with it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe thing is...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing gay, Syrian, black, trans, etc. are things that you \u003Cem\u003Eare\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing a Christian is something you \u003Cem\u003Edo\u003C\/em\u003E. You get tought religion. You go to church.\nYou recite prayers. You read a specific book and decide to believe in its content\ndespite the facts not supporting it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYour religion is an \u003Cem\u003Eidea\u003C\/em\u003E. And ideas can be challenged.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETolerance, in the meaning they meant, is about people\u2019s \u003Cem\u003Eidentities\u003C\/em\u003E.\nAbout their very existence. About their human rights.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMythologies, and this might surprise you, are \u003Cem\u003Enot\u003C\/em\u003E humans.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd yes, religious freedom is one of the human rights, but it means\nthat others cannot forbid you to believe and practice your relgion,\nand that they can\u2019t discriminate you based on your beliefs.\nIt doesn\u2019t mean that your unscientific beliefs or specific practices are protected from any criticism.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJust because I disagree with you, doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m intolerant \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffc\u200d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Chr \/\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EP.S. \u201cTolerance\u201d means \u201cputting up with something, despite disagreeing with it\u201d.\nSo me openly disagreeing with theism, while respecting people\u2019s right to believe in it,\nis pretty much tolerant by definition.\u003C\/p\u003E","words":239,"readTime":null,"lang":"en"}}},"blog\/mythology\/atheism-is-freedom":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/atheism-is-freedom","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2019-11-21T14:36:41+01:00","publishedAt":"2019-11-23T00:16:00+01:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"atheism-is-freedom"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"atheism-is-freedom","title":"Atheism is freedom","intro":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/atheism-tattoo_small.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022640.24279210926\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg 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It might sound stupid for some (\u201cif you don\u2019t believe in god, why do you care so much about the nonexistent?\u201d), but it\u2019s a really important thing for me. 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It might sound stupid for some (\u201cif you don\u2019t believe in god, why do you care so much about the nonexistent?\u201d), but it\u2019s a really important thing for me. Let me tell you why.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019ve always been a curious kid. Asking thousands of questions about the world, reading popular science journals, being super diligent at school...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMy greatest fear was not understanding things. I was honestly suffering psychologically and emotionally from not being able to wrap my head around some concepts. Having a \u003Cstrong\u003Emental mess\u003C\/strong\u003E in my head was just painful.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd there was one issue in particular that was bothering me \u2013 how did the world and humans \u003Cem\u003Eactually\u003C\/em\u003E come into being? At school I was taught about the big bang and about evolution, while at church I was told about a guy who \u003Cem\u003Ejust existed\u003C\/em\u003E and who took six days to \u003Cem\u003Esay things\u003C\/em\u003E and they just \u003Cem\u003Emagically\u003C\/em\u003E appeared. Two equally valid and reasonable hypotheses, right?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor a reasonable adult, of course not! But for a ten-year-old who\u2019s been taught practically from birth to trust their parents and to believe whatever priests says? Who has learned to get on their knees and recite prayers earlier than learning to count? Who\u2019s been indoctrinated practically every day of their childhood?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EParents and catechists seemed not to notice \/ to actively ignore the obvious contradictions between their favourite book and what science \u003Cem\u003Eactually\u003C\/em\u003E knows about the universe. So I had to put my mind at rest by inventing a worldview that would somehow combine both of them: with a god who caused the big bang and then watched over the universe until the Earth formed, who created the first single-cell organism and then watched it evolve into humans... I swear, I\u2019ve never heard of \u201cInteligent Design\u201d at that age. I just went on with whatever made sense under the assumption that no one is \u003Cstrong\u003Elying to me\u003C\/strong\u003E. I didn\u2019t know that was an option.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThen came the teenage years and I can\u2019t even begin to describe what a horror it was to realise that I\u2019m a horny bitch. Not only I had sexual fantasies, not only did I masturbate and liked it, but I also started to think that I might be \u003Cstrong\u003Einto boys\u003C\/strong\u003E more than into girls.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow I know those are all amazing thing, but back then I was a good catholic boy. And to quote Stephen Fry:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022blockquote ml-4 pl-4 border-left\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s the strangest thing about this church \u2013 it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No. We have a healthy attitude. We like it, it\u2019s fun, it\u2019s jolly; because it\u2019s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult.\nIt\u2019s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic Church in a nutshell.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere wasn\u2019t a week going by in which I wouldn\u2019t hear voices condemning \u201cimpure thoughts\u201d, masturbation, pornography or homosexuality... And the punishment for all of them was the eternal damnation in hell, worse than any suffering you can possibly think of. Can you imagine what damage being in this cult can do to a developing mind?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf the Catholic Church gets you to really believe in their bullshit, you start \u003Cstrong\u003Ehating yourself\u003C\/strong\u003E. Everything you do is potentially a sin. You have to regularly go to a cult guru and tell them all the worst things about yourself. Seriously, what sadist came up with the whole confession thing?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGoing back to slightly more mundane things than psychological damage: religion can take up a lot of your \u003Cstrong\u003Etime\u003C\/strong\u003E. I didn\u2019t just go to a mass every Sunday. I was an altar boy, I was singing in a band, I was learning their bullshit at school, as if those were facts, I was going on pilgrimages, I was praying every day, I was spending a massive chunk of my time trying to reconcile my sexuality and morality with the \u201cmoral\u201d teachings of the Church... There\u2019s so many more useful things I could\u2019ve spent those hours and hours...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOh damn, it was supposed to be just a short note, but it\u2019s already gotten quite long... And I didn\u2019t even start complaining about all the awful and pointless traditions, about facing the catholic homophobia from my own family, about all those matters who didn\u2019t affect me personally but are still shitty, like opposing women\u2019s rights, the Rwanda genocide, pedophilia, anti-condom campaigns, etc. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI know, I know, I\u2019ve been bitching about the Roman Catholicism, not religions in general, but the truth is, they all operate under a similar framework. It can be better (like Protestantism, being less dogmatic and less homophobic), it can be worse (like Islam, threatening death to apostates), but the underlying principle is the same: blind faith is more important than reason, and whatever rules we make up, you have to follow, or else...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s abuse.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGetting out of my cult \u003Cstrong\u003Efelt like escaping a prison\u003C\/strong\u003E. It took me years to get there. 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I just went on with whatever made sense under the assumption that no one is \u003Cstrong\u003Elying to me\u003C\/strong\u003E. I didn\u2019t know that was an option.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThen came the teenage years and I can\u2019t even begin to describe what a horror it was to realise that I\u2019m a horny bitch. Not only I had sexual fantasies, not only did I masturbate and liked it, but I also started to think that I might be \u003Cstrong\u003Einto boys\u003C\/strong\u003E more than into girls.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow I know those are all amazing thing, but back then I was a good catholic boy. And to quote Stephen Fry:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s the strangest thing about this church \u2013 it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No. We have a healthy attitude. We like it, it\u2019s fun, it\u2019s jolly; because it\u2019s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult.\nIt\u2019s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic Church in a nutshell.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere wasn\u2019t a week going by in which I wouldn\u2019t hear voices condemning \u201cimpure thoughts\u201d, masturbation, pornography or homosexuality... And the punishment for all of them was the eternal damnation in hell, worse than any suffering you can possibly think of. Can you imagine what damage being in this cult can do to a developing mind?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf the Catholic Church gets you to really believe in their bullshit, you start \u003Cstrong\u003Ehating yourself\u003C\/strong\u003E. Everything you do is potentially a sin. 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And I didn\u2019t even start complaining about all the awful and pointless traditions, about facing the catholic homophobia from my own family, about all those matters who didn\u2019t affect me personally but are still shitty, like opposing women\u2019s rights, the Rwanda genocide, pedophilia, anti-condom campaigns, etc. etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI know, I know, I\u2019ve been bitching about the Roman Catholicism, not religions in general, but the truth is, they all operate under a similar framework. It can be better (like Protestantism, being less dogmatic and less homophobic), it can be worse (like Islam, threatening death to apostates), but the underlying principle is the same: blind faith is more important than reason, and whatever rules we make up, you have to follow, or else...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s abuse.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGetting out of my cult \u003Cstrong\u003Efelt like escaping a prison\u003C\/strong\u003E. It took me years to get there. 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I\u2019m finally free to think for myself without worrying about dogmas and blasphemy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI enjoy my life.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo yeah, that freedom is certainly worth being celebrated in a form of a little \u201cA\u201d on my shoulder.\u003C\/p\u003E","words":983,"readTime":4,"lang":"en"}}},"blog\/mythology\/i-don-t-hate-god":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/i-don-t-hate-god","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2017-07-02T08:33:58+02:00","publishedAt":"2017-07-02T08:22:00+02:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"i-don-t-hate-god"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"i-don-t-hate-god","title":"I don\u0027t hate god","intro":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hate-god_small.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Do atheists hate god?\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022270\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hate-god_small.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Do atheists hate god?\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022270\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI can\u2019t count how many times I\u2019ve been accused of \u003Cem\u003E\u201conly being and atheist because I hate god!\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E. How the hell can I possibly hate something that I claim \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-pastafarianism\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E does not exists\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut no worries \u2013 if he existed, I\u2019d hate him so much!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hate-god_big.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Do atheists hate god?\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022960\u0022 height=\u0022540\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACQAAAAUCAYAAADlep81AAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAHLklEQVRIiS2VS5OdVRmFn335vnNOn\/Tp09dcGhIINBAIWkTL2w9wQDlkpHOn\/hbLuUPLKkdaWk6kdKJYKKmUBYoEigTSgfT93L7L3vt9XwftX1jPWs9yf\/vtz81Zj1jAnENLRtThDFQMxXAozoS+N7xlnHMMKsgWqKLivON0LmhqcRjBQxjUmChNs2IwqNEQ0dLS98Li7IJmtaLte\/ok+MEIy4WmK7ifvPMjwzt2tiaczVb89Mc\/BJRf\/PL3fO+tA\/74539y88YuB7eu8rt373Nzfw8theGwYmtzg39\/8jnvvP19ru+s85s\/vMfG+hrXdre5\/9Fn3Hlpn\/f\/9ZC6rnnrtT3ePNjh3b8+5GTegnn6LiFEgndsb004OZkR9\/b2CAHOZ3M2JmOq2uNN6VPiydcn3L1zm4MXdnn\/\/qd476nrmjgasLM9YXc6xLjJrf0tlsuGriinT045m60Qc9x9eZe+W\/Hpl8dsrEW8Jla98NrtPT74zzGvPD\/hw88XvPTclFDVbE8n+KZtOD2fsX9tG5WCD4GnJzNeffk6TdvirGNYGffu7nNlPMQhLFctR8enzOYLnCaCU3zwbE+v8MbBDcxgd1IxbxJqnhAqOq3xfsB0POCzxzPGlefpUcPmes3h8QofK6bjAe7BX35lIQCW6PtEEUHzDJEMWpCScVQ4HyliiEaKGi4EqsrhfEWXC81szlrtWc3nRAr1cA2LESmFIg3OD3CqqBSkdMxnC7qszNpAs+pRyQxKR5S8wnLBeUFLomkdUVucGYZh6jEt+ErBHH1xeOeQvoU4IIogoowGjtw11HWE4MmmBO\/xwxpbCX0HVtfMV5nFLGGtkNtMcI699ZqjowVdTkQVIQTFiuBNwAwH+GCoQqwg94WcIecAoaKuCl1x6HxBKomUBA+ICC54audw3lPUsVhkzo4XtDkxGlSMbcXVUaDUYy7yGbGuL0dSe9xonVgFMBHUBFC8JQAMwwcPZmCK9xVxNCIXT06CtjNm5ysCheCUJhnrWxOIkeyHNDmwOGvRds7Ohse7AWW54OizJ4iL+LUrOCdoKQgBH0eIKrHJBVMleCMA0QshBHAOE8N8wMWIMkSosNSTc4tmoe96pO+5ur9Db5lldthyRWrOkb5jfX3As6dPcbefI1TK2dEpxwvhfNUwGvVcWatQIk+P51Qh4EyIRTzewDtDzcA52j4zqDyiRslKKQqukIsSAHOePoGpY\/vGNQ4PT5nu7jC7mDE\/PqMzx6rtuPjwgqs3d5jOl5ydLHl8OOfjx0e0Ijy\/O2W7DDiftXx93jCKgfF4SKQUcII4xQHBe4L3NG3BOwCHaU3KRpcvCyxdhpSp60iQjDoHg5orGxOuXp2SVWlXHXp7l9PzFf948IgvDs9oUmFvf5vv3HsF5yNd27GPcCCR1LV88fAJsfYFVQGTy+ao4FBMC847RBwpBRaznmFUNgfQ1pco2y7x3gcPefPeXaphjbeCrxyWjdlF4ujoBBMhRs+dV64x3ppy4\/oWk\/UxXYbRzoi+gFLTp8TjR0+J5grOFbxTSin0XUdKQtsmnPOUBKuLhrW6Is1O+eh0yfrGmNWyYXOyxvMv3iQMh6gKg8phagzrAcOhcWVU0XbGi7euMdnZJDplMhmBtBiRSE\/ya1TBMO\/pq0hcNiAlI7lDRCk547WQWqGYY7lIfHne8NwVQ2YXvPr6bQzHyeExZ8vCYBqJKLUKpe\/xdUCB8dqQr7qeq89do\/aB8dBRxYDXDlOl8opRE53ig5LMsbc1Ic5XiZx6Up+gJEqfyVkQNVyoOU\/Gnx484u1vv8Sbt1+kuDUePT7m8HDGzdu32N3dxFQQEWJV0TcdvRg5Zda3thjGgKgQQ4UzQbSQxWN5SaGm6ZWcChIrdjYmxJPTFm+ZyhsBz3Q6Zmd7zGBYsVxepvXfJ8d8nWvuuIoH9x8y74V733idyWRECOAMAkZKmZwNNU8VHHubA8z+jxJFVHDOk8UjGunVU1SxGDFT1kaReOeFdQY1mCRw4JwH5yhdojQtWgrfvDHg13\/\/mPXlBq8d3GS6OWVQVXguJaqhQtWBNyZXBPURF4aYCSkLJfU0XcJh4DxdFmKowddUVcFwtMsF3aohVtFfHmCCVBSHgBS6ruXo6JzPHx2yubPNz975Abub65SUKKkQafDBkJyQMmEwHBLqIaUktO\/o24SK0PWZNnXU0RG4dJ25Gj+MlJVwcXpOs5gTY0TwxPnFEu8DfUpIyWhJPPvqhE8fP2FrZ4973\/0Wg7URVoSSO4IlCBVFjOgD6oegStN2eO8Q6WjaBKaYGWY9wRnOgeFJ2SGSmJ\/NaC9mqK9YH2+gVjh7dkTsmxa80jUtz56d8cnjYwg1b7x6wPUbe3gHWjIhBOo6UsWK1QoCmdQbXa\/UowrvjL7twRwhRLQUUslgNd4rXYb+\/ILSC12zQlOPB+qtMf2yRZyQCPwPtuqJTm3SiSAAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hate-god_big.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Do atheists hate god?\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022960\u0022 height=\u0022540\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \u003Cfigcaption\u003E\n                    \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wHaWwYqpoy0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\n                        \u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E\n                        youtube.com\/watch\n                    \u003C\/a\u003E\n                \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI can\u2019t count how many times I\u2019ve been accused of \u003Cem\u003E\u201conly being and atheist because I hate god!\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E. How the hell can I possibly hate something that I claim \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-pastafarianism\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E does not exists\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut no worries \u2013 if he existed, I\u2019d hate him so much!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat the fuck is all that pointless suffering about? Especially among little children, who die terrible deaths before they even reach the age of reason. There\u2019s no way it\u2019s a punishment for some wrong they did, or that a \u201cgreater good\u201d comes out of it somehow. It\u2019s just plain cruel.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s perfectly understandable coming from a neutral, mindless, soulless universe. But if there were an omniscient, omnipotent being, why the hell doesn\u2019t he do anything about it? This guy would be a sadistic dictator!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is but one thing about god that does exist and I genuinely hate it. His fun club. Those guys that have spent last twenty centuries oppressing women, discriminating against LGBTQ people, controlling our sex lives, raping children, murdering non-believers and impeding scientific progress.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFuck them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["atheism","cruelty","dictatorship","existence","god","hate","religion"],"hasMore":true,"image":"https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hate-god_small.jpg","introLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hate-god_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hate-god_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Do atheists hate god?\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022135\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI can\u2019t count how many times I\u2019ve been accused of \u003Cem\u003E\u201conly being and atheist because I hate god!\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E. How the hell can I possibly hate something that I claim \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god.lite\u0022\u003E does not exists\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut no worries \u2013 if he existed, I\u2019d hate him so much!\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hate-god_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/hate-god_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Do atheists hate god?\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022135\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption\u003E\n                    \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wHaWwYqpoy0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csmall\u003Eyoutube.com\/watch\u003C\/small\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n                \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI can\u2019t count how many times I\u2019ve been accused of \u003Cem\u003E\u201conly being and atheist because I hate god!\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E. How the hell can I possibly hate something that I claim \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god.lite\u0022\u003E does not exists\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut no worries \u2013 if he existed, I\u2019d hate him so much!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat the fuck is all that pointless suffering about? Especially among little children, who die terrible deaths before they even reach the age of reason. There\u2019s no way it\u2019s a punishment for some wrong they did, or that a \u201cgreater good\u201d comes out of it somehow. It\u2019s just plain cruel.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s perfectly understandable coming from a neutral, mindless, soulless universe. But if there were an omniscient, omnipotent being, why the hell doesn\u2019t he do anything about it? This guy would be a sadistic dictator!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is but one thing about god that does exist and I genuinely hate it. His fun club. Those guys that have spent last twenty centuries oppressing women, discriminating against LGBTQ people, controlling our sex lives, raping children, murdering non-believers and impeding scientific progress.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFuck them.\u003C\/p\u003E","words":184,"readTime":null,"lang":"en"}}},"blog\/mythology\/i-m-doomed":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/i-m-doomed","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2017-05-17T22:17:02+02:00","publishedAt":"2017-05-18T12:30:00+02:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"i-m-doomed"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"i-m-doomed","title":"I\u0027m doomed!","intro":"\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019m a bit annoyed when somebody tries to convert me to their faith. Because although I know they probably do it for good reasons, wanting to give me a gift of eternal salvation and all that crap, from a perspective of a person that has spent (way too) much time getting to know \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/religion\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-tag\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E religions\u003C\/a\u003E of the world, the \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-pastafarianism\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E fact that god doesn\u2019t exist\u003C\/a\u003E is so obvious, and the absurdity of religions is so immense, that there\u2019s no way back for me. It\u2019s a waste of time to even look at it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI have, however, found a way to spare myself all that conversional boredom. Ready?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019m a bit annoyed when somebody tries to convert me to their faith. Because although I know they probably do it for good reasons, wanting to give me a gift of eternal salvation and all that crap, from a perspective of a person that has spent (way too) much time getting to know \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/religion\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-tag\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E religions\u003C\/a\u003E of the world, the \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-pastafarianism\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E fact that god doesn\u2019t exist\u003C\/a\u003E is so obvious, and the absurdity of religions is so immense, that there\u2019s no way back for me. It\u2019s a waste of time to even look at it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI have, however, found a way to spare myself all that conversional boredom. Ready?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/jesus\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-tag\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Jesus\u003C\/a\u003E has said: \u201cAnyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.\u201d \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=mt+12%2C+32\u0026version=NIV\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E (Mt 12, 32)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, blaspheming against the Holy Spirit is enough to have no way back anymore? So that all the attempts of converting yourself, begging for forgiveness and doing penance, were as \u003Cstrong\u003Epointless\u003C\/strong\u003E within the christian theology as they as in \u003Cem\u003Ereality\u003C\/em\u003E? So that god\u2019s \u003Cem\u003Einfinite\u003C\/em\u003E mercy suddenly finished for me? Count me in!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOkey then: \u003Cstrong\u003EThe Holy Ghost is a dull, egoistic, racist, sadistic fucktard\u003C\/strong\u003E. Is that enough to have that \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/salvation\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-tag\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E \u201dsalvation\u201d\u003C\/a\u003E topic behind me?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Catechism points out six \u201csins against the Holy Spirit\u201d:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EPresumption of God\u2019s mercy\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EDespair\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EImpugning the known truth\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EEnvy of other\u2019s spiritual good\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EObstinacy in sin\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EFinal impenitence\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWell, I don\u2019t believe in god, or his mercy, or a \u201csin\u201d, and I\u2019m not planning to do any penance neither now or right before my death, so it\u2019s hard for me to fulfil points 1, 4 and 6 in any way \u2013 but instead, my disbelief makes me qualify for \u003Cstrong\u003Eirreversible, unconditional damnation\u003C\/strong\u003E according to points 2, 3 and 5.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s no hope for me then. You don\u2019t have to bother me with any conversion attempts. Have a nice day! :)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["atheism","blasphemy","christianity","condemnation","conversion","damnation","faith","hell","holy ghost","jesus","religion","salvation","sin"],"hasMore":true,"image":null,"introLite":"\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019m a bit annoyed when somebody tries to convert me to their faith. Because although I know they probably do it for good reasons, wanting to give me a gift of eternal salvation and all that crap, from a perspective of a person that has spent (way too) much time getting to know \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/religion\u0022\u003E religions\u003C\/a\u003E of the world, the \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god.lite\u0022\u003E fact that god doesn\u2019t exist\u003C\/a\u003E is so obvious, and the absurdity of religions is so immense, that there\u2019s no way back for me. It\u2019s a waste of time to even look at it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI have, however, found a way to spare myself all that conversional boredom. Ready?\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019m a bit annoyed when somebody tries to convert me to their faith. Because although I know they probably do it for good reasons, wanting to give me a gift of eternal salvation and all that crap, from a perspective of a person that has spent (way too) much time getting to know \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/religion\u0022\u003E religions\u003C\/a\u003E of the world, the \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god.lite\u0022\u003E fact that god doesn\u2019t exist\u003C\/a\u003E is so obvious, and the absurdity of religions is so immense, that there\u2019s no way back for me. It\u2019s a waste of time to even look at it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI have, however, found a way to spare myself all that conversional boredom. Ready?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/jesus\u0022\u003E Jesus\u003C\/a\u003E has said: \u201cAnyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.\u201d \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=mt+12%2C+32\u0026version=NIV\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E (Mt 12, 32)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, blaspheming against the Holy Spirit is enough to have no way back anymore? So that all the attempts of converting yourself, begging for forgiveness and doing penance, were as \u003Cstrong\u003Epointless\u003C\/strong\u003E within the christian theology as they as in \u003Cem\u003Ereality\u003C\/em\u003E? So that god\u2019s \u003Cem\u003Einfinite\u003C\/em\u003E mercy suddenly finished for me? Count me in!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOkey then: \u003Cstrong\u003EThe Holy Ghost is a dull, egoistic, racist, sadistic fucktard\u003C\/strong\u003E. Is that enough to have that \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/salvation\u0022\u003E \u201dsalvation\u201d\u003C\/a\u003E topic behind me?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Catechism points out six \u201csins against the Holy Spirit\u201d:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EPresumption of God\u2019s mercy\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EDespair\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EImpugning the known truth\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EEnvy of other\u2019s spiritual good\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EObstinacy in sin\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EFinal impenitence\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWell, I don\u2019t believe in god, or his mercy, or a \u201csin\u201d, and I\u2019m not planning to do any penance neither now or right before my death, so it\u2019s hard for me to fulfil points 1, 4 and 6 in any way \u2013 but instead, my disbelief makes me qualify for \u003Cstrong\u003Eirreversible, unconditional damnation\u003C\/strong\u003E according to points 2, 3 and 5.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s no hope for me then. You don\u2019t have to bother me with any conversion attempts. Have a nice day! :)\u003C\/p\u003E","words":333,"readTime":2,"lang":"en"},"pl":{"slug":"jestem-skazany-na-pot\u0119pienie","title":"Jestem skazany na pot\u0119pienie!","intro":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/casper-ghost_small.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Casper Ghost\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022270\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/casper-ghost_small.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Casper Ghost\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022270\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETroch\u0119 mnie wkurza, gdy kto\u015b chce mnie nawraca\u0107. Bo wprawdzie wiem, \u017ce to zapewne z dobrych pobudek, \u017ce chc\u0105 mi da\u0107 prezent w postaci \u017cycia wiecznego i w og\u00f3le, ale z perspektywy cz\u0142owieka, kt\u00f3ry sp\u0119dzi\u0142 (zdecydowanie zbyt) wiele czasu na poznawaniu \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/religia\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-tag\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E religii\u003C\/a\u003E \u015bwiata, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-pastafarianism\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E fakt nieistnienia boga\u003C\/a\u003E jest dla mnie tak oczywisty, a absurdalno\u015b\u0107 religii tak wielka, \u017ce nie ma ju\u017c dla mnie drogi powrotnej. Szkoda czasu nawet na patrzenie w jej stron\u0119.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EZnalaz\u0142em jednak spos\u00f3b, by sobie tych nawracaniowych przynudza\u0144 oszcz\u0119dzi\u0107. 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Bo wprawdzie wiem, \u017ce to zapewne z dobrych pobudek, \u017ce chc\u0105 mi da\u0107 prezent w postaci \u017cycia wiecznego i w og\u00f3le, ale z perspektywy cz\u0142owieka, kt\u00f3ry sp\u0119dzi\u0142 (zdecydowanie zbyt) wiele czasu na poznawaniu \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/religia\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-tag\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E religii\u003C\/a\u003E \u015bwiata, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-pastafarianism\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E fakt nieistnienia boga\u003C\/a\u003E jest dla mnie tak oczywisty, a absurdalno\u015b\u0107 religii tak wielka, \u017ce nie ma ju\u017c dla mnie drogi powrotnej. Szkoda czasu nawet na patrzenie w jej stron\u0119.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EZnalaz\u0142em jednak spos\u00f3b, by sobie tych nawracaniowych przynudza\u0144 oszcz\u0119dzi\u0107. Gotowi?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOt\u00f3\u017c \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/jezus\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-tag\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Jezus\u003C\/a\u003E zaprawd\u0119 powiedzia\u0142 onegdaj: \u201cJe\u015bli kto\u015b powie s\u0142owo przeciw Synowi Cz\u0142owieczemu, b\u0119dzie mu odpuszczone, lecz je\u015bli powie przeciw Duchowi \u015awi\u0119temu, nie b\u0119dzie mu odpuszczone ani w tym wieku, ani w przysz\u0142ym.\u201d \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biblia.deon.pl\/rozdzial.php?id=255#W32\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E (Mt 12, 32)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA zatem wystarczy zblu\u017ani\u0107 przeciw Duchowi \u015awi\u0119temu, by nie by\u0142o ju\u017c odwrotu? By wszelkie pr\u00f3by nawracania si\u0119, przeb\u0142agiwania i pokutowania by\u0142y w ramach teologii chrze\u015bcija\u0144skiej r\u00f3wnie \u003Cstrong\u003Ebezcelowe\u003C\/strong\u003E, jak s\u0105 w \u003Cem\u003Erzeczywisto\u015bci\u003C\/em\u003E? By boskie \u003Cem\u003Eniesko\u0144czone\u003C\/em\u003E mi\u0142osierdzie nagle si\u0119 dla mnie sko\u0144czy\u0142o? Ch\u0119tnie na to p\u00f3jd\u0119!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA zatem: \u003Cstrong\u003EDuch \u015awi\u0119ty to t\u0119py, egoistyczny, rasistowski, sadystyczny cwel\u003C\/strong\u003E. Czy to wystarczy \u017ceby mie\u0107 ju\u017c z g\u0142owy temat \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/zbawienie\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-tag\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E \u201dzbawienia\u201d\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKatechizm wylicza nast\u0119puj\u0105ce \u201cgrzechy przeciwko Duchowi \u015awi\u0119temu\u201d:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGrzeszy\u0107 licz\u0105c zuchwale na mi\u0142osierdzie Bo\u017ce,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ERozpacza\u0107 albo w\u0105tpi\u0107 w mi\u0142osierdzie Bo\u017ce,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESprzeciwia\u0107 si\u0119 uznanej prawdzie chrze\u015bcija\u0144skiej,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EZazdro\u015bci\u0107 bli\u017aniemu \u0142aski Bo\u017cej,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMie\u0107 zatwardzia\u0142e serce wobec zbawiennych napomnie\u0144,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EA\u017c do \u015bmierci odk\u0142ada\u0107 pokut\u0119 i nawr\u00f3cenie.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EC\u00f3\u017c, nie wierz\u0119 w boga, w jego mi\u0142osierdzie, ani w co\u015b takiego jak \u201cgrzech\u201d, a \u201cpokuty i nawr\u00f3cenia\u201d nie planuj\u0119 ani na teraz, ani na \u0142o\u017ce \u015bmierci, wi\u0119c ci\u0119\u017cko mi jakkolwiek spe\u0142ni\u0107 punkt pierwszy, czwarty i sz\u00f3sty \u2013 za to moja niewiara zdecydowanie kwalifikuje mnie do \u003Cstrong\u003Enieodwracalnego, bezwarunkowego pot\u0119pienia\u003C\/strong\u003E ze wzgl\u0119du na punkt drugi, trzeci i pi\u0105ty.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENie ma zatem dla mnie \u017cadnej nadziei. 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Gotowi?\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/casper-ghost_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/casper-ghost_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Casper Ghost\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022135\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption\u003E\n                    \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ai9DTupH2r0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csmall\u003Eyoutube.com\/watch\u003C\/small\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n                \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETroch\u0119 mnie wkurza, gdy kto\u015b chce mnie nawraca\u0107. Bo wprawdzie wiem, \u017ce to zapewne z dobrych pobudek, \u017ce chc\u0105 mi da\u0107 prezent w postaci \u017cycia wiecznego i w og\u00f3le, ale z perspektywy cz\u0142owieka, kt\u00f3ry sp\u0119dzi\u0142 (zdecydowanie zbyt) wiele czasu na poznawaniu \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/religia\u0022\u003E religii\u003C\/a\u003E \u015bwiata, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/blog\/proof-that-there-is-no-god.lite\u0022\u003E fakt nieistnienia boga\u003C\/a\u003E jest dla mnie tak oczywisty, a absurdalno\u015b\u0107 religii tak wielka, \u017ce nie ma ju\u017c dla mnie drogi powrotnej. Szkoda czasu nawet na patrzenie w jej stron\u0119.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EZnalaz\u0142em jednak spos\u00f3b, by sobie tych nawracaniowych przynudza\u0144 oszcz\u0119dzi\u0107. Gotowi?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOt\u00f3\u017c \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/jezus\u0022\u003E Jezus\u003C\/a\u003E zaprawd\u0119 powiedzia\u0142 onegdaj: \u201cJe\u015bli kto\u015b powie s\u0142owo przeciw Synowi Cz\u0142owieczemu, b\u0119dzie mu odpuszczone, lecz je\u015bli powie przeciw Duchowi \u015awi\u0119temu, nie b\u0119dzie mu odpuszczone ani w tym wieku, ani w przysz\u0142ym.\u201d \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biblia.deon.pl\/rozdzial.php?id=255#W32\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E (Mt 12, 32)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA zatem wystarczy zblu\u017ani\u0107 przeciw Duchowi \u015awi\u0119temu, by nie by\u0142o ju\u017c odwrotu? By wszelkie pr\u00f3by nawracania si\u0119, przeb\u0142agiwania i pokutowania by\u0142y w ramach teologii chrze\u015bcija\u0144skiej r\u00f3wnie \u003Cstrong\u003Ebezcelowe\u003C\/strong\u003E, jak s\u0105 w \u003Cem\u003Erzeczywisto\u015bci\u003C\/em\u003E? By boskie \u003Cem\u003Eniesko\u0144czone\u003C\/em\u003E mi\u0142osierdzie nagle si\u0119 dla mnie sko\u0144czy\u0142o? Ch\u0119tnie na to p\u00f3jd\u0119!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA zatem: \u003Cstrong\u003EDuch \u015awi\u0119ty to t\u0119py, egoistyczny, rasistowski, sadystyczny cwel\u003C\/strong\u003E. Czy to wystarczy \u017ceby mie\u0107 ju\u017c z g\u0142owy temat \u003Ca href=\u0022\/tag\/zbawienie\u0022\u003E \u201dzbawienia\u201d\u003C\/a\u003E?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKatechizm wylicza nast\u0119puj\u0105ce \u201cgrzechy przeciwko Duchowi \u015awi\u0119temu\u201d:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGrzeszy\u0107 licz\u0105c zuchwale na mi\u0142osierdzie Bo\u017ce,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ERozpacza\u0107 albo w\u0105tpi\u0107 w mi\u0142osierdzie Bo\u017ce,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESprzeciwia\u0107 si\u0119 uznanej prawdzie chrze\u015bcija\u0144skiej,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EZazdro\u015bci\u0107 bli\u017aniemu \u0142aski Bo\u017cej,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMie\u0107 zatwardzia\u0142e serce wobec zbawiennych napomnie\u0144,\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EA\u017c do \u015bmierci odk\u0142ada\u0107 pokut\u0119 i nawr\u00f3cenie.\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EC\u00f3\u017c, nie wierz\u0119 w boga, w jego mi\u0142osierdzie, ani w co\u015b takiego jak \u201cgrzech\u201d, a \u201cpokuty i nawr\u00f3cenia\u201d nie planuj\u0119 ani na teraz, ani na \u0142o\u017ce \u015bmierci, wi\u0119c ci\u0119\u017cko mi jakkolwiek spe\u0142ni\u0107 punkt pierwszy, czwarty i sz\u00f3sty \u2013 za to moja niewiara zdecydowanie kwalifikuje mnie do \u003Cstrong\u003Enieodwracalnego, bezwarunkowego pot\u0119pienia\u003C\/strong\u003E ze wzgl\u0119du na punkt drugi, trzeci i pi\u0105ty.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENie ma zatem dla mnie \u017cadnej nadziei. Nie musisz sobie (i mi) zawraca\u0107 g\u0142owy \u017cadnymi \u201czbawiennymi napomnieniami\u201d. Mi\u0142ego dnia! :)\u003C\/p\u003E","words":361,"readTime":2,"lang":"pl"}}},"blog\/mythology\/apatheism-i-just-don-t-care-for-god":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/apatheism-i-just-don-t-care-for-god","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2017-05-04T14:13:27+02:00","publishedAt":"2017-05-04T14:07:00+02:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"apatheism-i-just-don-t-care-for-god"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"apatheism-i-just-don-t-care-for-god","title":"Apatheism \u2013 I just don\u0027t care for god","intro":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/keep-calm-because-i-dont-care_small.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Keep calm, because I don\u0027t care\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022560\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/keep-calm-because-i-dont-care_small.png\u0022 alt=\u0022Keep calm, because I don\u0027t care\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022560\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom a scientific point of view, of course I care for the god hypothesis. Its existence and nature are facts about our universe that are definitely worth knowing. But since we have absolutely no hard evidence supporting the existence of any god, anything we say about it and its nature \u003Cem\u003Emust be\u003C\/em\u003E either an uneducated guess, or just shamelessly made up.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom my personal perspective, however, should I care about god at all? Would it change anything in my life? 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Its existence and nature are facts about our universe that are definitely worth knowing. But since we have absolutely no hard evidence supporting the existence of any god, anything we say about it and its nature \u003Cem\u003Emust be\u003C\/em\u003E either an uneducated guess, or just shamelessly made up.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom my personal perspective, however, should I care about god at all? Would it change anything in my life? Would I become a better person, if I just started believing against all reason?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E1. There might be no gods.\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this case I can just freely live my life as an atheist, without wasting time for any superstitious nonsense, and without fearing death \u2013 since I won\u2019t even notice I\u2019m gone already. I\u2019d be trying to be a good person just because I don\u2019t want others to suffer.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E2. 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My parents might even start treating my like a son again (if I also started pretending not to be gay). But hey! If they all care about my faith more than even I do, is there any reason why should I be bothered by their bigoted opinions?\u003C\/p\u003E","words":668,"readTime":3,"lang":"en"}}},"blog\/mythology\/proof-that-there-is-no-god":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/proof-that-there-is-no-god","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2017-04-28T19:43:55+02:00","publishedAt":"2016-08-09T12:00:00+02:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"proof-that-there-is-no-god"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"proof-that-there-is-no-god","title":"Proof that there is no god","intro":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_small.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022360.53333333333\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_small.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022360.53333333333\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one can prove god\u2019s existence. When an atheist states this obvious fact, they will almost certainly hear the response \u201cwell, but you cannot prove he \u003Cem\u003Edoesn\u2019t\u003C\/em\u003E exist, either!\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_big.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022675\u0022 height=\u0022507\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_big.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022675\u0022 height=\u0022507\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one can prove god\u2019s existence. When an atheist states this obvious fact, they will almost certainly hear the response \u201cwell, but you cannot prove he \u003Cem\u003Edoesn\u2019t\u003C\/em\u003E exist, either!\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAgnosticism sounds reasonable then, right? You cannot prove god\u2019s existence, you cannot disprove it, so you label yourself as \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d and... and you live your life as if there were no god. Almost as if you knew there\u2019s none, but just didn\u2019t want to admit it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one does it in regard to any other similar case. We cannot prove there are no unicorns, fairies or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell%27s_teapot\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E flying teapots\u003C\/a\u003E orbiting the Earth, but do we label ourselves as fairy-agnostics? The notion that there are genies who grant three wishes is so \u003Cstrong\u003Eabsurd\u003C\/strong\u003E, that an educated person living in the XXI century either rejects it or becomes a subject of justified ridicule.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow is god different? That notion is so absurd, that since the moment I understood it, I would feel utterly \u003Cstrong\u003Eashamed\u003C\/strong\u003E not to reject it, too ashamed to hide behind the \u201cnobody knows\u201d excuse.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut most importantly: \u003Cstrong\u003Eyes, you can\u003C\/strong\u003E. You can prove that there is no god.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJust like you can prove there are no married bachelors, no hot coldness and no dry water. \u201cMarried\u201d means \u201chaving a spouse\u201d, \u201cbachelor\u201d means \u201cnot having a spouse\u201d \u2013 you cannot be both at once. \u201cHot\u201d means having high temperature, while \u201ccoldness\u201d implies low temperature \u2013 nothing can be both at once. \u201cDry\u201d means \u201clacking in liquid\/moist\u201d, while \u201cwater\u201d is the precisely that liquid, which should be lacking in order to make something dry. Here, I\u2019ve just \u003Cem\u003E\u201cproven the negative\u201d.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDifferent people define \u201cgod\u201d to mean vastly different things, but I guess the majority of world\u2019s believers would agree that their god is a person that created the universe, is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, free, infinitely good, just and merciful. Possibly also spaceless and timeless?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAny god that has those attributes cannot possibly exist. He\/she\/it (let\u2019s stick to \u201che\u201d for simplicity), he would be \u003Cstrong\u003Eself-contradictory\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo be omnipotent, he has to be able to do literally everything. But since he\u2019s also omniscient, he already knows what he\u2019s gonna and not gonna do. \u003Cstrong\u003ECan he do things he knows he will not do?\u003C\/strong\u003E If so, his omniscience was mistaken. If not, he\u2019s not omnipotent.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince he already knows all his future actions, can he at all do anything else? \u003Cstrong\u003EEither he doesn\u2019t know everything, or has no free will.\u003C\/strong\u003E (Also: praying to him to change his mind is either futile or arrogantly interfering with his primeval, perfect plan).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet alone the question how do we know god has all those attributes, but let\u2019s ask ourselves, how does he himself know it? \u003Cstrong\u003EHow does one know they\u2019re omniscient?\u003C\/strong\u003E He might know a lot, he might not have yet stumbled upon a single question he doesn\u2019t know the answer to. Yet. How can he be sure there\u2019s nothing outside of his knowledge? To paraphrase our imaginary theist apologist: you cannot prove that there\u2019s nothing he doesn\u2019t know he doesn\u2019t know, can you?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMercy is, by definition, suspension of justice.\u003C\/strong\u003E You can either judge someone as they should be judged to even the offence they caused, or you can show mercy towards them and alleviate their punishment. Not both at once. (Unless you\u2019re a married bachelor, maybe).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, infinite justice would require you to know and understand all the suffering and all the \u003Cstrong\u003Etemptations\u003C\/strong\u003E that your accused was subjected to. Of course, god does know that, right? He\u2019s omniscient, in the end. But can you really understand such issues, unless you have experienced them yourself? Would you feel judged fairly, if your judge has never been tempted, has no needs, has no limits, no problems, no weakness?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(If we focus on one particular religion, you could argue that god does indeed know all the struggles of being a human, since he came here as his own son and in a human form begged himself for forgiveness.... You know, two thousand years ago, while the human race exists since at least a hundred thousand. Ooooh, the timeline of god\u2019s plan is a topic for a separate discussion... Long story short: it\u2019s just another lame theological excuse.)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing infinitely good, while having created a \u003Cstrong\u003Euniverse where evil exists\u003C\/strong\u003E, is also contradictory. If you\u2019re omnipotent, therefore able to create any universe you wish, but you decide to create one with evil in it, then you and only you are \u003Cstrong\u003Eresponsible for that evil\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOur apologist would now certainly say that our universe is the best possible one, and if god removed some evil from it, some other one would emerge in a different place. And also that in order to have free will, we have to be allowed to do wicked things. (God, however, already knows what we\u2019re gonna do, before we do it... So are we free or predestined? Make up your mind, finally!)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOk, hands up, who deliberately does evil \u003Cstrong\u003Ejust because you can\u003C\/strong\u003E? Oh... apparently not that much, is it? Most of our evil-doing comes from the conditions we live in, that could easily be changed by an omnipotent being. God could\u2019ve created the world with more natural resources and more fair distribution thereof, so that we didn\u2019t have to work that hard and fight that much for them. God could\u2019ve created us with weaker sexual desires. Or at least reveal himself, so that we make an \u003Cstrong\u003Einformed\u003C\/strong\u003E decision about our beliefs. How could any of this lead to more evil, not less?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf suffering has to exist, because it makes us better human beings, how come the perfect god manages to be good without suffering?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd what the fuck are all the parasites and diseases about? Innocent children are dying in huge numbers every day, totally senselessly. It builds their character? Their suffering enriches the world around them? Please...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, since god is so omnipotent, cannot he create a universe with free will but without evil? Even if such universe would be self-contradictory \u2013 isn\u2019t god self-contradictory as well? Or maybe such universe is possible, but the omniscient god doesn\u2019t know he doesn\u2019t know about it?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf he\u2019s spaceless (being nowhere), how can he also be omnipresent (being everywhere)? And how could a spaceless, timeless, non-abstract being possibly be distinguished from anything else?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, if we just focus on Christian god: he has an arch enemy, Satan. \u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is even the point\u003C\/strong\u003E of the devil opposing god at all, if god knows his every past and future move, he knows Satan\u2019s every plan, he is there when devil plans it, and is perfectly capable of doing literally anything! An omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god, who doesn\u2019t destroy the devil, is \u003Cstrong\u003Eresponsible\u003C\/strong\u003E for the devil!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPhew!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, to sum up: god such as proposed by the majority of believers, regardless of the particular version, is an idea so self-contradictory in so many different aspects, that it logically cannot exist.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGod does not exist.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQuod erat demonstrandum.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["agnosticism","atheism","contradiction","existence","god","logic","omnipotence","omnipresence","omniscience","paradox","proof","religion","super powers"],"hasMore":true,"image":"https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_small.jpeg","introLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_big.jpeg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_mini.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022180.26666666667\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one can prove god\u2019s existence. When an atheist states this obvious fact, they will almost certainly hear the response \u201cwell, but you cannot prove he \u003Cem\u003Edoesn\u2019t\u003C\/em\u003E exist, either!\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_big.jpeg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_mini.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022180.26666666667\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one can prove god\u2019s existence. When an atheist states this obvious fact, they will almost certainly hear the response \u201cwell, but you cannot prove he \u003Cem\u003Edoesn\u2019t\u003C\/em\u003E exist, either!\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAgnosticism sounds reasonable then, right? You cannot prove god\u2019s existence, you cannot disprove it, so you label yourself as \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d and... and you live your life as if there were no god. Almost as if you knew there\u2019s none, but just didn\u2019t want to admit it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one does it in regard to any other similar case. We cannot prove there are no unicorns, fairies or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell%27s_teapot\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E flying teapots\u003C\/a\u003E orbiting the Earth, but do we label ourselves as fairy-agnostics? The notion that there are genies who grant three wishes is so \u003Cstrong\u003Eabsurd\u003C\/strong\u003E, that an educated person living in the XXI century either rejects it or becomes a subject of justified ridicule.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow is god different? That notion is so absurd, that since the moment I understood it, I would feel utterly \u003Cstrong\u003Eashamed\u003C\/strong\u003E not to reject it, too ashamed to hide behind the \u201cnobody knows\u201d excuse.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut most importantly: \u003Cstrong\u003Eyes, you can\u003C\/strong\u003E. You can prove that there is no god.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJust like you can prove there are no married bachelors, no hot coldness and no dry water. \u201cMarried\u201d means \u201chaving a spouse\u201d, \u201cbachelor\u201d means \u201cnot having a spouse\u201d \u2013 you cannot be both at once. \u201cHot\u201d means having high temperature, while \u201ccoldness\u201d implies low temperature \u2013 nothing can be both at once. \u201cDry\u201d means \u201clacking in liquid\/moist\u201d, while \u201cwater\u201d is the precisely that liquid, which should be lacking in order to make something dry. Here, I\u2019ve just \u003Cem\u003E\u201cproven the negative\u201d.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDifferent people define \u201cgod\u201d to mean vastly different things, but I guess the majority of world\u2019s believers would agree that their god is a person that created the universe, is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, free, infinitely good, just and merciful. Possibly also spaceless and timeless?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAny god that has those attributes cannot possibly exist. He\/she\/it (let\u2019s stick to \u201che\u201d for simplicity), he would be \u003Cstrong\u003Eself-contradictory\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo be omnipotent, he has to be able to do literally everything. But since he\u2019s also omniscient, he already knows what he\u2019s gonna and not gonna do. \u003Cstrong\u003ECan he do things he knows he will not do?\u003C\/strong\u003E If so, his omniscience was mistaken. If not, he\u2019s not omnipotent.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince he already knows all his future actions, can he at all do anything else? \u003Cstrong\u003EEither he doesn\u2019t know everything, or has no free will.\u003C\/strong\u003E (Also: praying to him to change his mind is either futile or arrogantly interfering with his primeval, perfect plan).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet alone the question how do we know god has all those attributes, but let\u2019s ask ourselves, how does he himself know it? \u003Cstrong\u003EHow does one know they\u2019re omniscient?\u003C\/strong\u003E He might know a lot, he might not have yet stumbled upon a single question he doesn\u2019t know the answer to. Yet. How can he be sure there\u2019s nothing outside of his knowledge? To paraphrase our imaginary theist apologist: you cannot prove that there\u2019s nothing he doesn\u2019t know he doesn\u2019t know, can you?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMercy is, by definition, suspension of justice.\u003C\/strong\u003E You can either judge someone as they should be judged to even the offence they caused, or you can show mercy towards them and alleviate their punishment. Not both at once. (Unless you\u2019re a married bachelor, maybe).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, infinite justice would require you to know and understand all the suffering and all the \u003Cstrong\u003Etemptations\u003C\/strong\u003E that your accused was subjected to. Of course, god does know that, right? He\u2019s omniscient, in the end. But can you really understand such issues, unless you have experienced them yourself? Would you feel judged fairly, if your judge has never been tempted, has no needs, has no limits, no problems, no weakness?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(If we focus on one particular religion, you could argue that god does indeed know all the struggles of being a human, since he came here as his own son and in a human form begged himself for forgiveness.... You know, two thousand years ago, while the human race exists since at least a hundred thousand. Ooooh, the timeline of god\u2019s plan is a topic for a separate discussion... Long story short: it\u2019s just another lame theological excuse.)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing infinitely good, while having created a \u003Cstrong\u003Euniverse where evil exists\u003C\/strong\u003E, is also contradictory. If you\u2019re omnipotent, therefore able to create any universe you wish, but you decide to create one with evil in it, then you and only you are \u003Cstrong\u003Eresponsible for that evil\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOur apologist would now certainly say that our universe is the best possible one, and if god removed some evil from it, some other one would emerge in a different place. And also that in order to have free will, we have to be allowed to do wicked things. (God, however, already knows what we\u2019re gonna do, before we do it... So are we free or predestined? Make up your mind, finally!)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOk, hands up, who deliberately does evil \u003Cstrong\u003Ejust because you can\u003C\/strong\u003E? Oh... apparently not that much, is it? Most of our evil-doing comes from the conditions we live in, that could easily be changed by an omnipotent being. God could\u2019ve created the world with more natural resources and more fair distribution thereof, so that we didn\u2019t have to work that hard and fight that much for them. God could\u2019ve created us with weaker sexual desires. Or at least reveal himself, so that we make an \u003Cstrong\u003Einformed\u003C\/strong\u003E decision about our beliefs. How could any of this lead to more evil, not less?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf suffering has to exist, because it makes us better human beings, how come the perfect god manages to be good without suffering?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd what the fuck are all the parasites and diseases about? Innocent children are dying in huge numbers every day, totally senselessly. It builds their character? Their suffering enriches the world around them? Please...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, since god is so omnipotent, cannot he create a universe with free will but without evil? Even if such universe would be self-contradictory \u2013 isn\u2019t god self-contradictory as well? Or maybe such universe is possible, but the omniscient god doesn\u2019t know he doesn\u2019t know about it?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf he\u2019s spaceless (being nowhere), how can he also be omnipresent (being everywhere)? And how could a spaceless, timeless, non-abstract being possibly be distinguished from anything else?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, if we just focus on Christian god: he has an arch enemy, Satan. \u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is even the point\u003C\/strong\u003E of the devil opposing god at all, if god knows his every past and future move, he knows Satan\u2019s every plan, he is there when devil plans it, and is perfectly capable of doing literally anything! An omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god, who doesn\u2019t destroy the devil, is \u003Cstrong\u003Eresponsible\u003C\/strong\u003E for the devil!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPhew!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, to sum up: god such as proposed by the majority of believers, regardless of the particular version, is an idea so self-contradictory in so many different aspects, that it logically cannot exist.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGod does not exist.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQuod erat demonstrandum.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","words":1195,"readTime":5,"lang":"en"}}}}}