So what if you really thought about the universe and the complexities, probability, the design, and the fact that there's a good chance the intelligent organisms aren't developed from inanimate matter - at the very least not by the most statically improbable way ever- aka at random. What if you life improved because of your belief system? If you thought all that and figured there probably was a God - would that automatically place you in the category of mindless drone who can't think for himself and probably has a difficult time figuring out how to brush his teeth in the morning unless a Bishop or Imam tells him how?
Does not believing in God, automatically make u the type of person is thinks independently? Does it make you immune to ideological and philosophical influence and manipulation?
Is a belief in God automatically giving someone a right to say something in your name or does it simply allow someone to guide you in your faith if you chose?
The whole point of being religious is "believing" without questioning and/or understanding, that's why we talk about "Faith". Now if a religious person is critical enough to actually think and intellectually question his belief, and STILL believe afterwards, that's cool with me. But too many use the "because Jesus said so/because it's written in the Bible" "logic", that's just intellectually lazy, and I can't take it seriously.
Mind you, it's the same for everything: if someone doesn't question his government's policies just because "I believe in Obama/Merkel/Cameron/whoever", it's the exact same type of blind and intelectually weak sheep mentality.
As I answered to someone earlier in the thread, if a position/opinion/belief comes come from reasoning instead of "that's what God wants/that's just the way it is" and that person is open to discussion and self-criticism, then it's all good. I know religious and non-religious people who fit in this category.
On the other hand, people (religious and non-religious) who also just "follow" whatever their priest/imam/president says without questioning it get the
There are religions that are no longer practiced... some faded, some were killed. You may not be able to stop an idea or concept with a bullet or a sword, but you can get rid of it with other ideas.... And FYI we are brain washed about sooo much sh1t as people, not just religious ideas. Religious ideas are just singled out because they are easy, they are prominent, and they are an easy scapegoat for natural human motivations and behaviors.
Religious ideas are singled out because of history, just look at how religion has been used to enslave, conquer land, "civilize", burn "witches" and "heretics" (who often happened to be intellectuals) etc. Are religions the only things to blame? No, but other ideologies we
could compare them to (capitalism, communism) don't have centuries of "experience" behind them.
He was an atheist who wanted a socialist communist brainwashed perverted utopian society. He didn't want anyone closing in on his life's work or people... so he "saved" them.
So he's just another nutso who abused other people's stupidity/sheep-like manners. From what I see, he did so by creating a cult, so whether he was an atheist or not he knew that religion-like organisations is the perfect trap to "save" people.
