Papers, Essays & Letters Against Belief

 

 

"NOT ONE MAN IN TEN THOUSAND

HAS THE GOODNESS OF HEART

OR STRENGTH OF MIND

TO BE AN ATHEIST":

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Thomas Allsop, ca. 1820

 

 

Atheist Values & Morality Are Simple & Are Never Driven By Fear

 

I am an Atheist. I value all life because there is no other. To me death is final. As I try to choose what to do with my life, and support all others, human and non-human, to choose what to do with theirs, so must I consider my approach to death and help others consider their own approach. I would like, also, to choose my time of death, and help others choose theirs.  

       Chris Morton 

 

“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal  example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross.  Consider what calamities that engine of belief has produced!" 

 

John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. 

 

 

 

 

THIS WEB PAGE AND BLOG ARE A PLACES TO EXPRESS YOUR OPPOSITION TO RELIGION AND TO WRITE ABOUT ACTION TO HELP BELIEVERS REALIZE HOW WRONG THEY ARE
 
 
COMMENT

Religion as addiction (or dependency) serves to arouse believers, to placate people, to develop proclivities for other addictions, and to create addictive behavior in the so-called faithful which can be extremely dangerous to themselves and others:


The religions “of the book”, or of revelationary visions, are particularly addictive because of their adherence to their religious texts as, “the word of God”.  Individual accounts of imagined or hallucinatory religious experiences that can never be validated lead to feelings of control, effusion, power over others who have not had these visions, and feeling of elation because they have been “chosen”.  The religious texts provoke extreme behavior, particularly when they are interpreted literally; their texts provide the sanction of violence and other base behavior such as the physical abuse of women and children.  Personal revelations lead to all sorts of abuse also because of their imagined theistic sources.  Christian addiction promotes both these sources of religious direction.

 

The process of religious dependency encouragement is the basis for the control of all believers by churches, temples and mosques.  Today it is found in its most brutal and insidious form in Evangelical and Televangelist churches and Protestant Christian outreach, including missionary work and fundamentalism in each religion, including non-book religions such as Hinduism and religious cults. 

 

 

 

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Chris Morton