For many years religion has been seen as a bastion of hope for many people of faith. My experience is quite the opposite. Growing up I never really believed that there was a god, I wanted to, but I didn’t. I never realized that he actually doesn’t exist until I started to really question the foundations of Christianity. For years I was scared shitless because I never felt the love of God that is talked about in churches around the world. I thought I was going to Hell because that’s what the Bible told me. I sincerely wanted to make the connection with God. That connection never happened, why? If God loved me then why wouldn’t he let me know? When I was a little kid I used to ask myself the same question over and over, what happened to the people who lived in remote places of the world that the word of God never reached? I was around seven or eight years old when I asked that question, and with it I began my journey to Atheism.
Why doesn’t God have to exist? The answer is simple, Science. People have always wanted answers, but we haven’t always been able to ask questions. Why haven’t we been able to always ask questions? Another simple answer, Religion. People argue that Science and Religion can co-exist. To a certain degree they’re right, Science can only exist if people don’t take their Religions as seriously as they are supposed to. But if people don’t take their religions seriously then why believe in them in the first place? Science and Religion both attempt to answer some of the same questions. How did we get here? Why are we the way we are? How was the world created? Science seems to have better answers, why? Because there’s proof. Unlike Religion where you have to rely on faith. Don’t get me wrong science doesn’t have all the answers but it’s a helluva lot closer than religion is. I don’t blame people for inventing Religion because people want answers and Religion provides them. The only problem is they’re the wrong answers.
It seems to me that the only thing keeping religion alive is that it comforts people and tells them that they have a purpose in this world. The thing is that you don’t need religion to be comforted, I’m comforted by the fact that there is a zero percent chance I’m going to hell. You don’t even need religion to feel like you have a purpose, you can decide what your own purpose is. People will argue that Religion brings comfort to so many people why not just leave it be? Well for all the comfort that it brings you, it brings pain and agony for many more. If any social group or club was responsible for as much pain, murder, torture, hypocrisy, bigotry, conflict, and pure evil that Religion is responsible for, it would be immediately disbanded. Yet people still insist on keeping it around. Humanity needs to wake up for the sake of future generations or be destroyed by a fantasy.
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