As promised, a second post occasioned by the Gopnik essay on belief and atheism — this time, focused on the interesting change that’s come over atheism over the last generation or so, during which time the sunny optimism of 18th century irreligion has made a striking comeback. Reading Gopnik’s remarks on the confident, history-is-going-our-way spirit of so much of the new unbelief, I was reminded of a Leszek Kolakowski essay, “Anxiety About God in an Ostensibly Godless Age,” which appeared more than thirty years ago, in 1981, and can be found in a recent collection of his work. Here’s a relevant excerpt, offering a kind of mini-history of Western atheism and its discontents:

Atheists reject all teachings of all religions. The Atheist knows that god did not make man. The opposite is true – man made god in the image and likeness of a man, in the form of a virile Greco-Roman male in his early prime. Man completed this effort over 2,300 years ago.

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With this creation came religion. We know that religion requires unconditional belief and complete submission, without thought. Any discipline based on belief in man’s written words – requires complete submission – without concern for facts; and a set of rules that knowingly and completely overlook self-determination – appears cult like, trivial, and not worthy of respect. Upon examining, the benefits of believing Atheists realize that any benefit or benefits derived from affiliation with religion are at their very best meaningless or insignificant.

Atheists are aware of atrocities committed in the name of spiritual superiority. Atheists view these events as wasteful, shameful, and as always elusive of any perceived victory and devoid of any social redeeming qualities or values. Accepting this truth is imperative, as it is so easy to verify, too many lose contact with reality based on trivial religious beliefs and bizarre religious doctrine.

Most of religion’s beliefs are products of the ninth thru fifteenth century – the Dark-Ages period of Western Europe. These products include very basic child-like stories intended for the most uneducated members of society including pseudo horror stories. The stories are about demons, evil spirits, devils, and the like. However, the target audience changed now religion is an exceedingly mainstream belief system and extremely profitable for its promoters. Religion’s impact on our society is shocking, almost mind boggling. The wild stories work even today. If you are a clever preacher, you can tell your followers you saw a man walk on water. Many will believe you.

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The answers to the so-called mysteries of faith never elude us as they are in any public library. Most are just too lazy, complacent, stupid, or fearful to conduct the required research to explore such topics.

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” -Thomas Jefferson, April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826

Truth is not in demand in this society. We stand in abject fear of learning the truth. In being honest with ourselves, we must admit and accept that of our own volition we constructed a high tech do-it-yourself version of the European Dark-Ages in this so-called 21st century. We refer to this, as fundamentalism. After a thousand years of mental conditioning, we must admit the churches trained us too well. Now these habits are difficult to break, but changing a habit is not impossible. Always remember…

“After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.” -Arthur Schopenhauer, February 22 1788 – September 21 1860

The Happy Atheist PDF
Author	Joseph Lewis
Isbn	1481276190
File size	1.9 MB
Year	2012
Pages	44
Language	English
File format	PDF
Category	Religion