"Utopia
is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness -- that is,
the improbable -- with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial
vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism
it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy."~ E.M. Cioran.
The
more you expand - take in, of others who at first seem to share your
skepticism and passion to learn, the more you realize its limited
capacity to do so. Limited to religion, science and medicine and stunted
by dissonance and group ideological thinking. The more time you spend
reading their shared views and whatever information they part your way -
the less you view them as autonomous. Free - thought applies only to
the expression or expansion of their worldviews, or their utopia, heaven or nirvana, complete with rapture.
Politics is the 'creationism'
of Atheism. Atheists cease to use skepticism; logic and reason in order
to validate their adherence to a political party. They, as creationists
posting ICR links, will relay links and media they haven't researched
or most times even read. They support the news and views within with blind faith.
They post relentlessly the scripture of their political ideology - no
matter the lack of merit or truth. Rub their nose in their apparent
dissonance - and you will be transported into a familiar scene of debating the creationist. Fallacious reasoning and logical fallacies coupled with refusal to give reliable source, or any source to back
assertions is usually ended with an emotional plea - a ridiculous one.
Reject their personal "experiences," and you'll be "damned," or be told "You're not a real Atheist..."
I'm
a blog reader - I read many blogs by my fellow Atheists. They
inevitably all cover the same topics, over and over again. In humor, I
call the topics the "Sutras of Atheism". There are times
when I stumble across a person, who has retained their skepticism and
has somehow managed to escape the ideological thinking that is becoming
more and more present in Atheism as it grows in numbers. As we en masse in numbers and voice- the more we assemble a religion, complete
with a rapture and heaven.
The 'rapture' is the rise of reason and enlightenment to man - religion
will fall from the minds of all. We will be lifted from the tyranny of
religion and given new life through knowledge. Following the rapture we
will attain freedom from all abuse, all war, all the things that make
us human or animals. Sin - aka ignorance, is the cause of all evil, and
therefore"'knowledge" is the opposite or "good, benevolent and
true"....
We shall acquire this from repentance/atonement from our worship and adherence to religion. Knowledge becomes
God- and is omni-benevolent. Not sure what happens to those not allowed
in the Atheist Utopia - I've read they get to sit it out and suffer
their religion, separated from us(like hell, separated from God) who
have attained heaven, so as not to bring us harm.
Utopia
- has a limited space and has criteria for entry, much like Heaven. In
this heaven, utopia or nirvana, we shall implement religion, cough -
excuse me, rules for the care and betterment of all man. Who will
decide these rules and the direction of care and betterment for all man ?
Well it's only natural those with power and with higher degrees of
enlightenment shall rule our Kingdom, our Paradise.
The
promises of our reason are many.... Our God, we reinvent, is immune to
rebuke and all created or done under its name is to be glorified.
Reminds
me of those seeking to be freed from the Church Of England, who then
instituted the very thing they ran from ... Or the quote I placed at
the very top of this blog for that matter. It reminds me of many
nations through out history and their societies.
Much
like theists, who now ignore science, physics and etc out of
dissonance, so shall we ignore what we know to be true in order to
facilitate a lie we need to comfort ourselves with... We know what's
best for all of mankind, right?
Yea.
We ignore the sciences too - in order to promote our Utopia - "fuzzy" for fuzzy logic.
On
a recent documentary titled "Universe," a scientist discussed the
application of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics in relation to social
behaviors and societies. This is the same law and example I've read many
times by atheists when predicting the end of theism- yet seem to think
ours is immune or that the rise of atheism or etc - is not part of the
decay, or the reality of social entropy and the further complexity of
our social structure. Every system we develop requires energy- and gains
in complexity, it grows exponentially in its needs...
Follow up reading is recommended on the topic of macro-sociological systems theory.
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