One of the reasons religion bothers me so much is the way the same people who react so vehemently about ‘drawing their prophet’ are so silent when their fellow-believers massacre innocent people of another sect mercilessly in broad daylight.

When the priority of being a human-being with active conscience is replaced by the one of being a member of a particular faith… there is something wrong indeed. There has to be something wrong; I always wondered why more people cannot see it. Is there anything really over humanity? Isn’t that the reason religions were created in the first place- simply put- to serve as a guidebook to being a more humane human?

I just wish you’d remove that veil and see where you are taking this world to… it’s time you woke your conscience that’s been sleeping for centuries, it’s time you shook out of that trance, it’s time you looked around… and realize that the brain that you have, it’s for reasoning things out for yourselves…

And who knows, it may even not be too late….

Allow us to also suggest

• The Bra Boys of Islamic Extremism
• Sex: the dread of the religious lot
• Faith and Knowledge

I like Richard Dawkins.

I know it comes as hardly a surprise.

Even though I think it needs clarification that I have been an atheist since much much before I read Dawkins, Dawkins just gave me some answers that I can give to the theists when they ask questions that they think proves that there is a God.

Questions like:

‘How can a creation as complex as this universe be created without a creator?’
‘How can something come from nothing?’
‘How could humans have evolved from apes?’

It surely helps that Dawkins is a zoologist… and a damn fine writer. It helps me to grasp what I find more believable- ‘science’… something testable, provable, solid, and believable.

Yes. As I said, I like Dawkins. Very much.

But, I have very strong objection in him being referred to as the high priest for atheists.

It makes atheism sound so much like a religion- any religion- whereas what it actually is- is a ‘way of thinking’. Logical thinking. I will be much dismayed if atheists, of all people, start to look up to someone or something, for idolizing or for believing blindly.

I will hate to see it happen.

I will hate to see atheism turn into a ‘religion’.

Allow us to also suggest

• Did you hear the news? Religion has killed humanity in broad daylight…
• Lines, Borders and Human Rights
• Sex: the dread of the religious lot