God hating, fearing, avoiding…me?

People ask me why, on balance, I seem to highlight or even write a lot of anti-religion rants. Am I in fact afraid of a god, or angry with him/her/it? What terrible experience must I have had to make me this bitter? Was I yet another abused choir boy from the Catholic Church?

Ok, let’s look at this. I was actually brought up a freethinker with no god concept figuring in my life. My parents decided that should I get to an age when I needed to believe in fairies, Father Christmas or a version of a god, then that should occur when I was able to make such a reasoned choice. If at 13 I had announced I was now a {insert religious grouping here} then my parents would have respected my decision despite disagreeing with it.

So many parents beat their children mentally with all the god-bothering and god-fearing crap, it makes them grow-up accepting that it must be true. This is similar to sexual abuse. If sexual abuse is started at an early enough age then a child will just accept it, even enjoy it, and not until they are exposed to other ideas, concepts, philosophies and freedom do they realise that not everybody has their father/mother fiddling around with their genitalia every night. They realise that what had been a normal enjoyable experience to them had in fact been very wrong.

On the other hand, a child suffering sexual abuse growing to adulthood with nobody advising them that what is happening to them should not be happening to them, will probably carry-on just accepting that what is happening is the norm. Children are so trusting and so accepting.

When an adult abuses a child’s trust by forcing them to believe whichever mumbo jumbo their parents before them indoctrinated them into believing, then we have an extreme mental abuse that needs to be stopped. Indeed, we have a destructive cycle that needs to be broken.

It is a ‘destructive cycle’ too. The first ‘destruction’ is rationality, the ability to work things out, to reason and to be self-reliant. Religion takes that away. Secondly, god-fearing is normally surrounded by terrible fears and intimidation. Rituals have to be strictly adhered to in order to ensure subjects self-hypnotise a reinforcement and become sheep-like and all accepting, some of these are natural sexual denials, others include physical abuse like removing parts of the body in order to appease a mad belief.

Religion comes with an irrational feeling of immortality with different places to visit after death instead of everything coming to a mortal end. Worse than this, religion comes with rivalry. Many different religions fight for control of their subjects and the conversion of subjects from other religions. They go to war about this. Global conflict is based primarily on one religion invading or attacking the controllers of a rival religion.

Now then. With all this fighting going on, some of us normal folk are picking up flack and shrapnel. The religious with their controlled and closed minds are holding us as a species back. Indeed, they sometimes put us normal folk in danger when we become the victims of their bombs and attacks on their rivals.

The only way for humanity to move forward is for us normal folk to try to shake the religiously bigoted into realising that there is no place for them in these freethinking days of equality and brotherhood. And so that is why I hate the god concept. If left unchecked it could cause the downfall of the entire human race. With that as the ultimate price, it’s understandable that I should hate those who wish to keep the god concept festering and alive in the heads of their subjects, and why I do my bit to challenge the blind faith and ignorance that most Middle-Eastern invented religions bring. Peace and plenty will come once the religions are completely removed from human existence.