A person is an atheist if he or she for some reason or other can not accept as
true the statements of people that consider themselves theists.
As new knowledge comes to us we are obligated to check its validity against what we know.
This checking is a precondition to our survival.
For some of us theism is introduced in a stage in our lives in which we are not fully able or
required to ensure our own survival. In this period we depend on parent figures whose guidance
we follow.
For others it is introduced in a time of crisis. When survival skills are tested and prove insufficient,
and we want to submit to parenting again. It is a basic function of our brain to imagine what it
needs, as a goal to accomplish. In a state of crisis we need guidance and will easily imagine a
guide. This may or may not be the god we where told about, but the concept is there to be
activated.
Still others, after a period of following our parents get to a point where we start to understand
what knowledge we should trust in our daily lives. At a certain point we will start to see the flaws
in religious beliefs, just like we will see flaws in the opinions of others. Its because we have
gathered our own knowledge which we have proved to be true as we have been trying to tune
our mind to survival. As a result of this we may reject religious beliefs altogether and become
atheists.
Theism still lures at the edges of our understanding. Some of us understand that there still is no
reason to assume a supreme being if we lack understanding.
A basic function of our mind is to detect conicidence. This function allows us to learn relations
between events (like a bell ringing and lessons being over etc.). Because of the principle role of
coincidence in allowing us to recognize causation some of us have a hard time to reject causation
if some coincidence occurs. Some people will adopt religious beliefs to cover natural coincidence.
Theists and religious people add a layer of concepts to their daily experience which may alleviate
them from stress or give them strength in certain situations. However they can only agree that
their behaviour is 99% identical to that of atheists. During any real calamity they may pray, but
in order to survive they will have to submit to the laws the atheist will acknowledge.
Theist or religious people can hope, summon and pray, but they have no practical advantage.
They do have a practical advantage when it comes to raising armies of conditioned believers
that are in fact immature and in unnatural need of parenting.
It is the immaturity (ie the need for parenting) of the mind of the theist that scares the
atheist, because it means the theist is the instrument of another mature (parenting) mind.
The Vatican and Mecca is proof of the fact that that parenting mind is all too human, because
the facilities one can find there are to please humans, not any god.
An atheist can conclude theist have allowed moral conscience to become a thing to aquire by
submitting to a religious framework. Disowning people of their moral judgement has made religions
a curse to mankind. It has allowed jihadist and crucaders an inquisistion to occur.
In the end there are simple practical and demonstrable reasons why it pays to be just, good
and loving. Any atheist can confirm this. We are humans and will make mistakes. Morals have been
secured in our laws, and judgment can be based on those and the life experience of the judge. He
is the atheist parenting figure, but he only helps out when asked.
There are theist who believe we are inherently evil. There are those who believe we are on a long
path towards enlightnement. There are those who believe we are being eternally punished for our
mistakes. This ensures thier dependence on their 'parenting figures' even if they be beliefs. It is a
trick. It is immature behaviour by the parent. Because they whished all people to adapt to their
behaviour, and they did not trust the moral judgement of free people, they found a group to 'teach'
and condition as an example to change the world according to their views.
Atheist are content with their own moral judgement. They usually have no urge to teach, because
how do you teach someone to think for themselves?
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