Oh, Your god!: The Evil Idea That is Religion by Kelly Joshua

Author:Kelly, Joshua [Kelly, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: judaism criticism, organized religion, secular, islam criticism, atheism, agnosticism, Christian criticism, secularist, religious criticism
Publisher: Dangerous Little Books
Published: 2013-07-25T04:00:00+00:00

Not Til God Make Men Of Some Other Mettle Than Earth.

—Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing (II.I.59)

Let us look at ourselves for a moment—at our physical bodies: the wondrousness of our circulatory system, the intricacies of our nervous system, the sheer processing power of our cerebral cortex, the sublime beauty of our skin. Let us forget, for a moment, that no piece of our body implies perfect design—that the human eye has evolved backwards to optimal efficiency and that our laryngeal nerve takes a roundabout and purposeless path to its destination; that our teeth are made to survive barely a quarter of a century unaided and that our propensity to store fat is directly adverse to the idea of a prosperous living; that billions of sperm die with each ejaculation and we have shed the hair that was once the protection we had against harmful UV-Rays. All of these beauties of the body are—to a theistic mind—to be attributed to the infallible, perfect design of an intelligent god, a willful creator who gifted us with the exorbitant prowess of being bipeds and command over surrounding nature—and they are sincerely offended at the idea that the grand result of the human form can be explained over large areas of time by tiny changes in selection and adaptation, which lead to an admittedly flawed but completely workable biological machine that we call the human species—oh no, that assumption is not nearly graceful enough for them, not hardly so elegant. We, they say, were made from dirt, and in the case of the fairer sex, a rib bone. Ah, yes—infinitely more wondrous.

Creation myths range across the world in various cultures with multiple similarities and contradictions, but almost all have the same invested interest that humans are the work of a process far more supernatural than can be witnessed today. In creation myths, we can see the reoccurring, egotistic structure that willingly shows that we are the center of the creations of the same Creator of the Universe—of all things in a form with a radius of 14 billion parsecs (roughly 46 billion light-years), we are the single, epitomal craft project, and the materials from which we spawned are as numerous as they are preposterous.

Inversely, the atomic theory of the stuff that we are made on is equally fantastical—but has the unparalleled beauty of rationality. For example, every existing atom in the universe today—the pages in your hands, the fingers you turn them with, the oxygen surrounding you—all came from the widespread phantasm of energy that filled the empty space of the universe after the Big Bang. They have existed since the beginning in various forms and substances, but all from the multitude of wandering, glorious stars that surround us. To paraphrase Lawrence Krauss, the atoms in your left hand could very well be very distant cousins of a neighboring star with the atoms on your right. When you die, those atoms will again change energies, forms, combinations and the like—but they will continue to exist, much as they had before and after your consciousness.

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