Avaduta

A free man and writer | Author of "We Are Not Slaves Even to the Gods"

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Sacrifice, Qurban, or Bali is a forced, painful death on animals. Only a mindless fanatic would justify the "blood-thirsty, flesh-hungry, gore-loving" nature of their fictitious deity as compassion.

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There was a period we spent hours and days appeasing unreal deities. Years thus passed in the melodrama of illusion. But a dawn of reasoning retrieved our sanity we gambled away on gods, prayers, and miracles.

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Dear believer, ask yourself who first told you about God and where they heard it first. The chain of belief would lead you to someone who proclaimed, 'I'm God or a Messiah.' Ponder if it's wise to believe claims as evidence and expect centuries-old "miracles" to repeat today.

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Why do religious leaders never demonstrate their gods' strength in hospital ICUs, where healing is most needed?

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The devout behold as wisdom what atheists reject as ignorance.

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Confront a believer with a hard question on god, they will grin at you with sarcasm, brood in arrogance, or seethe in anger. What they don't understand is they are victims of indoctrination. Consumed by empty religious pride, they stay ignorant of their plight. However, ironically, they look at a freethinker, an atheist, as a faithless gone astray from their Lord's mercy. They think someday the person would return, kneel before, and surrender to their deity.

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Parents following a faith are likely to pass on their malice of ignorance to their children, apparently believing fearing imaginary gods is the most virtuous trait to cultivate in them.

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God was an answer to many unanswered questions when humans imagined and speculated without verifiable facts and logical reasoning. This answer further grew into religion, deities, and mythical stories.

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In a century where we determine information based on scientific data, consumed by centuries-old ignorance, sellers of faith still preach religion and spirituality without an ounce of self-doubt or shame.

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Spiritual cults that promise inner peace, bliss, and enlightenment through meditation offer a static escape from the real problems of the dynamic world. Spirituality is about withdrawal, inaction, and a forced composure.

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A spiritual realm is a utopian creation just like the heavens of religions. Through meditation or any such process, you head to one such fairyland in your thoughts alone. The fantasy just kills your time.

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No god ever partook in the troubles and tribulations of humans, but belief in them has been the most notorious reason for discord between people and wars between nations.

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The notion that some god will provide me and protect me, and all I need to do is display sycophancy, shameless appeasement, sulk and lament in self-pity, and beg and cry relentlessly for his mercy, while toiling for his institution, is just mental slavery.

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No religion gives its believers the freedom to conclude what's not told by them. The one who believes lives and perishes within its tiny sphere of imagination.

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Those who say, "God is silently observing everything," must be right. He watches over bloody wars, brutal crimes against women and children, starvation and hunger, inequality and injustice, death and despair of every being on the planet doing nothing.

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Religion promotes selfishness but pretends to foster selflessness. In a believer's strive for accruing good deeds, renouncing everything to attain liberation, even in seeking others' deliverance, there is self-centeredness in their seeking planted by their faith.

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Where is your god?

Where is your god when calamity strikes Where is your god when humans unleash the bloodshed of war Where is your god when you fall terminally ill Where is your god when vile men prey upon children Where is your god when people gore animals to death Where is your god when you are desolate and helpless Where is your god when people kill each other in his name Where is your god when millions die in hunger Where is your god when the corrupt loots the gullible Where is your god when tragedies drown people

If god exists and is omnipresent and a mute bystander to all these, he must be a cruel sadist.