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Today’s article was written by Luis Dias, a blog subscriber.

For an atheist, it is quite easy to disregard religion as a building of irrationality embedded in mankind as some kind of a “meme“, as proposed by Richard Dawkins on “The God Delusion”, a collateral damage of our gene’s architecture, a cultural self-perpetuating virus that has a life of its own and abuses traces of our gene’s that have evolved otherwise for the good and survival of mankind, as its propensity to obey, trust and sacrifice. If not this theory, it may be entirely other. It doesn’t matter: Religion is often seen as a delusional aspect of mankind, one that should be abolished away with use of Education and Enlightenment.

Religion is well aware of its own rational problems, for even ardent theists know damn well that if the Naturalist (Materialist) view of the universe is true, God has a real tough time explaining his own existence. No wonder why theology puts God in the “supernatural” world, a world made of lullabies and fairy-tales, where everything is possible, miracles do happen when no one is present(except fervent believers) and angels are questioned about how many of them can dance on the head of a pin and actually answer it!

Of course, this doesn’t address the obvious reality that religion is connected with the evolution of very good traits in civilization, as the notion of love thy neighbour, peace martyrs, sharing communities, charity, etc. Yes, all of these can be (and are) very debatable, but its essence I believe it is not. Commonly as well, we often see the fear of theists who will claim that the absence of God in people’s lives will open the path to a tasteless life, full of “sins”, crimes, hatred, absent of love and marvel. Yes, there are few atheists in jail, but couldn’t that be related with the higher education of atheists, rather than with atheism itself? Atheists are seen as cruel “realists” who only see matter and energy, and deny the truth of a soul, of a beauty beyond pure materialism. Incapable of seeing beyond their own eyes and senses, cynics and sceptics, void of a grand meaning of life with a big L, how can they be a Good People?

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