God for Dummies

Tribute in Islam

2011-04-20T02:04:00.001-07:00

Confessions of a Former Christian

2010-05-04T14:41:00.001-07:00

Proof that there is no god

2010-05-04T14:25:00.000-07:00

This article was quoted from: http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/nogod/no_god.htm

Introduction

Some people falsely believe that it is impossible to prove the unexistence of anything, but they are wrong. It can, for example, be proved that there is no even prime number greater than two. Other people use to say that there is no way to prove if there is a god or not, or even that we cannot get any knowledge of god (agnosticism). My opinion as a strong atheist, is that we can in fact prove that god does not exist in the physical world. This document is my attempt to do so.

Definition of the word "god"

To prove the non-existence of god we first need to define the word "god". When christians talk about god they mean an almighty being. This, I think, is the only god that holds, since it is the only god that can be logically justified.

I think it makes most sense if god is female, because only women can give life. Something that even people in the Stone Age understood. Later when wars affected the cultural evolution, and men took control of society, god became male, but the female god still lives on in the expression "Mother earth". It should also be pointed out that an omnipotent god must be either androgyne or sexless. However, in most religions god is male so I will refer to god as 'he', 'him' etc.

Some people (Einstein for instance) believe in a god who is not a personal god, but a Spinozan kind of god. I claim that this god is not a god! To say that god is universe - by getting knowledge of the universe we get knowledge of god - is to redefine the meaning of the word god. This has nothing to do with the word god as it was defined by the "primitive" cultures which preceded our present civilization. He can be excluded with Occam's razor, and most important: Such a god does not hear prayers.

If god is not omnipotent there is nothing that prevents him from being a product of the universe. If that is the case, what makes god divine? Then god would only be an alien, a being of matter; probably containing flesh, blood and DNA like all life we know of. Everything god is able to do would be things that human beings also will be able to do, all his knowledge would be knowledge we will also achieve. In fact humans would be gods, which should lead to some strange kind of humanism!

Many people justify their faith with god as an explanation. What is the meaning of life? Where does time and space come from? Who created the physical constants? et cetera. Because we lack knowledge of these things - and maybe never will, since they are questions like "what is the color of a second?" or "how does sound taste?" - god is there as an explanation.

Let's say that god is the meaning of life, what then is the meaning of god? If god has a nature, who created that nature? If god created time and space, how can god exist without it? Since creation is an event in time, how could god create time? and who created god? To answer these questions god must be almighty, or else you can't explain them. In fact you can if you say god stands above time and space and so on (which he indeed does if he is almighty), but to be able to prevent god from being tied to future phenomena, you must give him the quality of omnipotence so he can stand above everything.

The qualities of an omnipotent god

If god is almighty there are several qualities he must have. They are as follows:

He must know everything. Everything that is, everything that has been and everything that will be. To be able to know everything that will be he must know every position and every momentum of every particle in cosmos (Laplace's "World Spirit").
He must be worth our worship. A being that is not worth worshipping is no god.
He must be able to do anything. If there are things that god can't do, he certainly is not omnipotent.
He must be above time. Something that even St. Augustine deduced. But not only that, god must stand above all possible dimensions.
He cannot be 'good' or 'evil' or, indeed, have any subjective characteristica. If god is all good, he cannot do evil things and cannot be almighty. Most people would object and say that good can do evil but chooses not to do it. Well, if god is all good he can't choose to do evil things, can he?
The theodicé problem
We also have the theodice problem, stated by David Hume:
If the evil in the world is intended by god he is not good. If it violates his intentions he is not almighty. God can't be both almighty and good. There are many objections to this, but none that holds since god is ultimately responsible for the existence of evil. Besides, if only god can create he must have created evil. If somebody else (the devil) created evil, how can one know that god, and not Satan created the universe?
For a good look at the Theodicé problem try The problem of natural evil

Reasons not to believe in god

The ontological evidence against gods

Neccesary a god is a being that is worth worshipping, so if there is no being worth worshipping there cannot be a god.

Not any of the existing religions can provide such a god. How do we know if there are no undiscovered beings worthy our submission? Well if there is a being that has either failed or not tried to communicate with us that being is not worth worshipping either, so the ontological evidence against god holds, even without complete knowledge of the world.

There is a test, based on the ontological evidence against god, that you can do to try the existence of god. Pray, and ask god to provide you with a clear proof for his existence within a week. After that week, if you have got a proof that god exists, send me the evidence. If not, there are only three reasons I can think of that are plausible: (1) God does not exist, (2) God does not want to or (3) God can't give you this evidence. Because of the ontological evidence, alternative (2) and (3) are not worth your worship and thus they equal alternative (1). So if you get no response there is no god.

The meaning of the word existence

What do we mean by existence? The very definition for existence is that a thing is said to exist if it relates in some way to some other thing. That is, things exist in relation to each other. For us, that means that something is part of our system ('The known world'). God is defined to be infinite, in which case it is not possible for there to be anything other than god because "infinite" is all-inclusive. But if there is nothing other than god then either god cannot be said to exist for the reason just explained, or god is the known world, in which case, by definition, god is not a god.

Occam's razor

Occam's razor was formulated by William of Occam (1285-1349) and says: "Non est ponenda pluralites sive necessitate" or in english: "Do not multiply entities unless necessarily". It is a principle for scientific labour which means that one should use a simple explanation with a few explanatory premises before a more complex one.

Let's say that everything must be created, and that was done by an omnipotent god. A god which stands above time, space, moral and existence, which is self containing and in it self has it's own cause. This entity can surely be replaced by the known world. The world stands above time, space, moral, existence, is self containing and in it has it's own meaning. Most theists agree that god has a nature. Then we must raise the question, who created god's nature? If we just accept that god has a nature and exists without a cause, why not say that the known world just is and that the laws of physics are what they are, without a cause?

God is not really an explanation, only a non-explanation. It is impossible to gain information from non-information so God as an explanation is a dead end. When we have said that the reason for something is that 'god did it that way' there is no way to understand it any further. We just shrug our shoulders and accept things as they are. To explain the unknown by god is only to explain how it happened, not why. If we are to investigate the world and build our views of life from the world, we cannot assume a god. Because adding god as an explanation leaves as many, if not more questions than it explains, god has to be removed with Occam's razor if we are serious in investigating the world.

Some things are impossible to do

There are things that are impossible to do. For example nobody can cover a two-dimensional surface with two-dimensional circles, without making them overlap. It is impossible to add the numbers two and two and get 666. You can not go back in time (without passing an infinite entropy barrier). The number of things that are impossible to do are almost infinite. If god were to be almighty he would be able to do them, but it's impossible to do so.

Some people say that he can only do things that are logically possible to do, but what is? Is it logically possible to walk on water? Is it logically possible to rise from the dead? Is it logically possible to stand above time, space and all other dimensions - and still exist? I'd say that everything which violates the laws of physics are logically impossible and thus omnipotence is logically impossible. Besides if omnipotence is a relative quality there is no way to tell omnipotence from non-omnipotence. For omnipotence to be a valid expression it must be absolute, but we have no objective criteria to measure omnipotence so the word itself is useless.

Omnipotence is impossible due to paradoxes

Another way to disprove the almighty god is that omnipotence leads to paradoxes. Can god make a rock that is too heavy for him to carry? Can god build a wall that even he can't tear down?

Also, if god knows everything, he knows what he will do in the "future" (in any dimension, not necessary the time dimension). He must have known that from the very start of his own existence. Thus god's actions are predestined. God is tied by faith, he has no free will. If god has no free will god is not omnipotent. Another way to put it is that to be able to make plans and decisions one must act over time. If god stands above time he can not do that and has no free will. Indeed, if god stands above all dimensions god is dimensionless - a singularity, nothing, void!

Besides there can exist no free wills at all if god is almighty. If you had a free will, god wouldn't know what you would do tomorrow and wouldn't be omnipotent.

The void creator

If everything must have been created, then god must have been created as well. If god is not created, then everything mustn't have a creator, so why should life or cosmos have one?

Besides this argument has another leap. If everything has a source and god is that source, then god must have existed without it before he created it. So if god created time and space, he must live outside of time and space. Thus he is non-existent. If all life must come from something and that is god, god is not alive and hence non-existent. If moral must come from god, god lacks moral. If logic comes from god, god is illogic. If nature comes from god, god is unnatural. If existence comes from god, god is non-existent. If god is the cause of everything, god is void

We would never notice god

This is not an evidence against god, but rather describes the lack of sense in praying to a god who stands above time.

If god stands above time and created time and space he can not be the first link in a time dependent chain of events. Rather he would affect every step in all chains, and we would only see god in the laws of physics (Davies, 1983, chapter 4). This god is an unnecessary entity to describe the world and should be removed with Occam's razor

If somebody would pray to god and god would listen, the laws would change to achieve the desired result. Thus the world would be different and the prayer would never have been said. Besides god would already (in an "above time" sense of view) know that you would pray, and already have changed the world. Prayers would be totally meaningless. We would already live in the best world possible, and any prayer would be to doubt the wisdom of god.

Even worse: For every prayer said, god has not acted, or else the prayer had been undone. This means that the more people have prayed, the more bad things in the world have persisted. Therefore, the more you pray, the more evil persist (provided god exists and stands above time).

A much better way to change the world is to do it yourself. Then you would know that it was you who made the world better. The effect of prayers are not scientific provable, whilst the effect of actions are. Instead of praying you should set to work at improving your situation. This is what humanism is about.

Nobody really believes in god

Schopenhauer once said something like:

"Man can do anything he wants, but he can not want whatever he wants."

My thesis is that people who claim to believe in god do not really do so. They just wish to believe in god. They somehow feel that their lives are meaningless without god, so they choose to close their eyes to evidence against the existence of god. The christian view is well expressed by Cardinal Ratzinger:

"Religious liberty can not justify freedom for divergence. This freedom does not aim at any freedom relative truth, but concerns the free descicion for a person to, according to his moral inclinations accept the truth." (The times, June 27 1990, p9) [Translated to Swedish in the Swedish version of (Baigenth, Leigh, 1991) and then translated back to english by me]

It's as clear as it can be! For a christian you accept the "truth" according to your moral, and then have to be strong in your faith to keep your believes. You decide a priori what to believe and then try to convince yourself and others that it is true. But theists don't really believe, because to believe something is to take it for true, and just like in Nazareth's song Sold my soul there is no sign of god in the world. When you have the evidence for and against something your sub-conscious works on it and makes a conclusion. The process can't be affected by your will, only delayed or suppressed, which will lead to psychoses, and those are far more common among (catholic) priests than any other group..

I have personal experience of this believing what you want to believe. When I was a child I believed in a lot of crazy things. I thought my stuffed animals were intelligent. I believed in Santa Claus. I thought there were monsters under my bed at night. I even believed in god after I heard some of the tales from the old testament. Then I became older and realized that these things weren't true. When I look back I don't understand how I could believe in them, it must have been that I wanted to do so. (Except for the monsters, which had to do with fear of the dark)

When many religious people are confronted with criticism of their religion they convert to atheism or agnosticism. Examples of people who became critical to the dogmas of christianity are Charles Darwin (Darwin, 1958), Dan Barker (Barker, 19??), Ernest Renan plus many former "Catholic modernists" in the 19th century such as Alfred Loisy and Antonio Fogazzaro (Baigenth, Leigh, 1991). The Catholic modernism evolved in the late 19th century and was banned in 1907 by the Vatican (Baigenth, Leigh, 1991). These people are to me clear evidence that an enlightened person will after considering the facts, reject christianity and other religions that contain deities.

Note: This is not the "Plead to authority" fallacy. I'm talking people here, who were trying to prove the existence of god and turned atheists. They did not want to do this, but had to after reading a lot of books and doing a lot of thinking on the subject.

Epilogue

I have tried to define the only god that can be philosophically justified and show some examples why this god cannot exist. After reading this document you may object and say that god is beyond human understanding and can't be defined in scientific terms. This is the view of agnosticism.

If god is so mysterious, how can we know anything about him? Through the Bible? How do we know that the Bible and not the Koran or the Vedha books, for example, are the words of god? (or the bible if you believe in any of the other two books). Considering the cruelties that have been made in the name of god, how do we know that not all religions are made by Satan?

If there is no way to know this but to trust people who claim they have had "divine experiences" there is no way to tell true from false prophets. One has to give up his free mind and follow the authority of a dictator. Remember also that it is the person making a positive claim who has to prove it.

"I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." -- Bertrand Russell

"We shall not believe anything unless there is reasonable cause to believe that it is true" -- Ingemar Hedenius

101 Atheist Quotes

2010-03-12T04:22:00.000-08:00

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. – George Bernard Shaw
Faith means not wanting to know what is true. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. – Gene Roddenberry
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. – Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. – Seneca the Younger
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. – Anonymous
Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. – Woody Allen
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. – Isaac Asimov
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. – Edward Abbey
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. – Steven Weinberg
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. – Doug McLeod
The world holds two classes of men – intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. – Abu’l‐Ala al Ma’arri
Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? – Anonymous
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. – Susan B. Anthony
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. – Delos B. McKown
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. – Anonymous
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. – Francis Bacon
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. – Richard Dawkins
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect. he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified. – Karen Armstrong
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image. – Ludwig Feuerbach
People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there’s priests of both sexes I don’t listen to. – Bill Hicks
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. – Matthew Arnold
Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. – Anonymous
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. – Richard Dawkins
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. – Christopher Hitchens
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. – George W. Foote
On the first day, man created God. – Anonymous
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.– Stephen Roberts
You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.– Richard A. Weatherwax
What’s “God”? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you. – Steve Buscemi (From the movie “The Island”)
As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don’t know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don’t know, 50,000,000 years of that I’d start to get a little bored. – Rick Reynolds
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. – Anonymous
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. – Don Hirschberg
God should be executed for crimes against humanity. – Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez
To say that atheism requires faith is as dim-witted as saying that disbelief in pixies or leprechauns takes faith. Even if Einstein himself told me there was an elf on my shoulder, I would still ask for proof and I wouldn’t be wrong to ask. – Geoff Mather
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. – Mark Twain
Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. – Voltaire
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. – Bertrand Russell
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? – Epicurus
I’m a polyatheist – there are many gods I don’t believe in. – Dan Fouts
If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. – Woody Allen
A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. – David Stevens
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. – Robert A Heinlein
I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. – Douglas Adams
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. – Mark Twain
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. – William Drummond
Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. – Steven Colbert
Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s? – Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. – Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. – Anonymous
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. – Sigmund Freud
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it’s a good thing. – Steven Weinberg
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. – Robert G. Ingersoll
History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. – Giulian Buzila
Atheism is a non-prophet organization. – George Carlin
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins
A believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was created. – Anonymous
“There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes. – James Morrow
People will then often say, ‘But surely it’s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?’ This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I’ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)– Douglas Adams
Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived. – Isaac Asimov
If all the Christians who have called other Christians “not really a Christian” were to vanish, there’d be no Christians left. – Anonymous
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. – John Buchan
Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people. – David Viaene
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. – Alexandre Dumas
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. – Sam Harris
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose – Clarence Darrow
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. – Annie Wood Besant
I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I’m ‘bad’. – Mike Fuhrman
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. – Frater Ravus
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.– Penn Jillette
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt only in the hands of the absolutely faithful. – Anonymous
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. – Chapman Cohen
The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it. – Robert G. Ingersoll
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. – Robert Pirsig
I wonder who got the shit job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah’s Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. – Azura Skye
I have no need for religion, I have a conscience. – Anonymous
Man has always required an explanation for all of those things in the world he did not understand. If an explanation was not available, he created one. – Jim Crawford
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. – Richard Dawkins
What has been Christianity’s fruits? Superstition, Bigotry and Persecution. – James Madison
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. – Penn and Teller
If god is the alpha and the omega. The begining and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible, why do people pray and think it will make any difference. – Mark Fairclough
The finality of death is the coldest truth one must face. Religion makes the perfect distraction.– Anonymous
Religion is the opiate of the masses. – Karl Marx
If God created the world, then who created god? and who created whoever created god? So somewhere along the line something had to just be there. So why can’t we just skip the idea of god and go straight to earth? – Ryan Hanson
If we expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others, then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. This should give Christians pause when expounding their religious beliefs, but it does not. – Sam Harris
Atheists will celebrate life, while you’re in church celebrating death. – Anonymous
Animals do not have gods, they are smarter than that. – Ronnie Snow
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. – Daniel Boorstin
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk. – Thomas Edison
Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all. – David J. Constable
To really be free, You need to be free in the mind. – Alexander Loutsis
Most religions prophecy the end of the world and then consistently work together to ensure that these prophecies come true. – Anonymous
Jesus hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway. – Anonymous
Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further. – Jack Pritchard
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. – Anonymous
Today’s religion will be the future’s mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. – Steven Crocker
The Bible – A Fairytale book of rules brainwashing millions. Obliviously used to help create war, kill, hate, judge and discriminate. – Anonymous
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? – Douglas Adams

2009-09-11T23:37:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry for not posting any thing and not replying to any responses so far, the reason being that the Saudi Authority has put this blog behind a firewall, I guess it offends some Muslims for people like me to speak out our mind. Trying to oppress some one by not giving him/her an outlet to subjectively express his/her opinion is one the main oppressive characteristics of the Saudi government, they think that they can silence people from speaking out our minds with their huge firewalls built by the very same infidels that they are at war against. However, this is not what i came here to talk about.
After reading some responses from my dear readers, this post will be as a quick response to the comments made through out the articles of this blog.

One of the readers commented by expressing his views about the link between quantum physics and the supernatural, and the probability of other realms existing out side of our existence. He also argues that i should not be narrow minded to the point were i rule out that possibility.
In response I would like to say that in the wacky world of quantum physics; Every thing seems to be possible and impossible at the same time, to Quote a great mind, Albert Einstein once said when he was trying to explain Quantum Physics in a Nutt-Shell he said "If you think you understand Quantum Physics, Then you don't understand Quantum Physics" What Einstein was trying to say is that Quantum Physics is an extremely vast science that we are barely capable of harnessing the feed back that it gives back to our basic minds, Quantum Physics talks about extra dimensions and higher and lower dimensions, and invisible matter ans anti matter to the point it leaves scientists baffled.
Having said that, Yes Due to the higher dimensions and the possibility of parallel universes, there could be realms out side of our existence, My argument is not about possibilities of other realms existing or not existing. I apologize if i haven't made this point clear enough in my previous posts, unfortunately I haven't spoken about Quantum Physics enough to make a clear cut case earlier.
My argument to religious people is as follows;

- What makes you so sure that those existences out side of our universe is the realm of God?
- Have you been to a higher dimension to see this for your self, and bring back un-refutable evidence from that higher dimension?
- And if you're not capable of traveling through worm holes, have you sent a space probe on your behalf, out of fear of being ripped apart by massive black hole's gravitational madness?
- Why is it Allah who resides in the higher dimensions, not Buddha?
- Why is it Yahweh who resides in the higher dimensions, not Zeus?
- Why is it Krishna who resides in the higher dimensions, not The Flying Spaghetti Monster?
(A friendly reminder, telling me that it is written in the bible, Quraan, is not proof, it is just your word against other words that claim their Gods exist in that very same higher dimension that you claim for your God)

The reason why i think Religious people are narrow minded is because they feel the need to narrow the whole existence so that it comfortably fits in the palm of God's hand. Because a religious person has no problem imagining different scenarios of endless possibilities as long as there is God at the end of each scenario, while other scenarios that does not have God at the end of it is considered crack-put science.

Basing my belief on hard evidence is the only reason preventing me from making the wrong decisions in life, it also prevents me from falling pray to people who use religion for their personal financial or political gain.
I have faith in this chair that I'm sitting on right now, because i can sit on it confidently knowing that it is supporting my weigh and that it will not break and make me hit my ass on the ground. I have more faith in this chair than i do in any God described or passed on from ancient literature.

Is God testing my faith?
You claim that your God is all knowing, he can see in to the future, this means that he knows in advance the results of the test of faith, therefor there is no need to conduct this test of faith because the results are already known to him. I will use the same analogy that used long time ago in this blog, which is:

Suppose i ask you to grab a rock and throw it as hard as you can at your neighbor's glass window.
I'm sure that you won't do as i say, because you already know in advance that by throwing that rock at that window will cause the window to break, and it will get you in trouble with your neighbor.

Now if we apply that same analogy to the reason why God created humans (supposing that there is a god) God knows in advance that there will be atheists whom will die not believing in his existence, and also knowing in advance that those Atheists will burn in hell, yet he still goes forward with his plan, and creates humans, This can only mean one thing, that God wants us Atheists to fry in his hell, and still dare to call him self a loving God.

This is just one aspect of the great conflicts in religion, and yet religious people decide to turn a blind eye, and keep believing Myths. and call those Myths science facts, when it is has nothing to do with science.

Islam of Hatred

2009-04-18T09:24:00.001-07:00

It has been quite some time now since i have wrote something in this blog, and to be honest i didn't think that i would have the heart or the energy to start tackling another one of Islamic nonsense that we're being fed every day from the cradle to the grave. However, the last comment that some guy had made on one of my posts under the title "Islamic Miracles in Nature"; It was just the right nudge I needed to start writing again. So in this post I'll be talking about "Why Atheists focus their hate on Islam" as this was the main theme of the comment that the guy made before he wished that his God would take me to hell with all the disbelievers.

Any way, the focused hate on Islam is not a virtue that only Atheists have, I would say this without having to look at any statistics or having to collect any anthropological demographics I would confidently assume that not just Atheists hate Islam, 99% of non Muslims share the same hate whether its direct or indirect hatred, the hate is there.

Now after reading up to here and your thinking to your self "but i have a Muslim friend and he seems pretty cool, so therefor you are wrong about Muslims". Then I should tell you that you're wrong, having Muslim "cool" friends doesn't buy any redemption for Islam. What I'm trying to say here is that the only reasonable justification that your Muslim friend is nice to you; is because he's acting according to what I would describe as "Moral Evolution". A modern person who is Muslim or a Christian or from any of the Biblical religions are classified in to 3 categories the first category is the aggressive (extreme) second is mild, and the third category is passive (which is more like an agnostic disposition, where a passive would say "maybe shit happens maybe it doesn't but just to be on the safe side, I'll keep holding on to my faith")

Those three categories are based on how it's corespondents will follow their scripture, so if we take the aggressive category for an instance, Muslims who fall under that category follow every word of the scripture (The Holly Quran) and they are willing to go the distance to obey every word they read, like bombing a building or a plane, or killing non-believers, or caricaturists illustrating sarcastic depictions of Muhammad or God for that matter. I'm not saying or implying that an aggressive Muslim is unable to tell the difference between good and evil. What Im saying is that an aggressive Muslim is too devout and obedient to scripture to the extent that when he is confronted with the choice of choosing between good or evil, their choice is purely based on what they read from scripture, therefor their personal decisions and opinions are irrelevant, If the scripture tells them to do something evil, they would know right away that it is evil and they shouldn't do it, but they would come to a realization that their opinions have no value next to God's grand plan. Not to mention that outside motivation that people like those receive from figures of authority in their community, so when in doubt regarding making a choice between good and evil, they will find their community making that choice for them according to scripture as well. This is why you would find most of the aggressive Muslims living in Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, or Iran or Afghanistan, the environment provided in those countries grants a fertile soil to grow aggressiveness and ideological extremism.

The second category which is the mild one, people who fall under that category reside in countries that house a more tolerant environment, where people's opinions are not constantly observed under a microscope which allows room to breath and enables a person to make some of his/her own decisions. A Mild Muslim wouldn't necessarily blow him self up to satisfy his God, but when they feel they are threatened by another religion or secularism they will go out in protest, and maybe just maybe one or two of them could do something stupid like throwing stones at an Israeli embassy to express their hatred and anger.

Third category for the passive Muslims are for the Muslims who mainly reside in developed countries that allow freedom of speech and all other kinds of freedoms such as the United States, Scandinavian Countries or Western Europe in general. Most passive Muslims are leaning towards agnosticism and are apologists for what they hear about what aggressive Muslims do in their free countries. and they always have the time to come up with justifications to validate their religion, most of those Muslims are people who haven't even the slightest clue about their religion, because they tend to get confused between the sense of morality that they picked up and have grown under in developed countries. So what they do is they return to scripture and start cherry picking things that they find valid according to what they've learned from their free western culture, and they impose those ideas on us and present them as Islamic teachings.

Now back to our main topic, and while keeping the above in mind, I have to stress out one last point regarding hate speeches, as an ex-Muslim and as an Atheist still hiding in the closet, I've heared and seen more than my fair share of hate speeches by Muslim clerics, Imams, scholars, all directed towards other religions and towards non-believers. The hatred speeches theme has been going on since the Islam started, It has been washing people's minds and making people live under the illusion that all the world is conspiring and plotting for their destruction, I find that a normal thing to do, in order for a religion to sustain it self it needs man power and it needs more will power and more and more financial power, the easiest way to gain those three important powers is by promoting Islamic hate speech and cutting off freedom of speech so that there won't be other opinions that contradict with the hate speeches given in Islamic educational religious institutions and in the media. So what do you get after over 1400 years of exposing people's minds to those hate speeches, the only logical conclusion would be, that you a get a whole nation filled with hate and rage and anger towards the other religions that they were told to hate, and those hateful and angry and aggressive people will devote not just their lives, but also their finances and their children so they can empower their Islamic country even more.

These are some of the many many videos about Islamic hate speech that you can find on youtube and all over the internet.

After every things that religion in general and Islam in particular has said and done over thousands of years, After waging wars, after shedding so much blood, after so many persecutions of gays and lesbians and Jews and Christians and after all the brain washing and promoting hate, and after all of these years of causing so much pain and so much more suffering some ignorant Muslims asks me why my hate is focused on Muslims? I should be laughing at the irony of this question, but i find my self unable to laugh because it so much more than that, if it was just irony i would laugh at the question, but there are other factors such as sheer ignorance, narrow mindedness that just hits me where it hurts, and nothing hurts me more than to see some one so narrow minded and more ignorant and full of hate who is in a position of power and that his ignorant opinions and decisions that are backed up by his brainwashed followers dictate how genuine people of true knowledge and wisdom are silenced, and mentally abused.

We all brought up to believe that we are special in one way or another, and we feel very easily offended when we're called ignorant, but as nation that suffers from being one of the poorest nations of the world, we need to ask our selves that there is something wrong with us, there is something wrong in us that is getting in the way of our prosperity and advancement and tolerance. Long time ago we thought the earth was at the center of the universe because it is so special to us, that delusion of greatness made us come up with the wrong answers to explain every thing around us. Until we find a way to get over ourselves and get over our selflessness, we will never be able to see who is truly great minded. We have to realize that people of great intelligence are very rare gems that needs to be given all the recognition that they need to reach their full potential, and lead us to the Utopia that we've been dreaming about since we evolved in to thinking beings. Religion is not the answer to the problems of this day and age, because its fueled by hate, and because religion can't coexist with other religions, therefor it will only cause more conflicts and wars till one of the religions prevails and dominates the whole world. I can't imagine how a terrible world this would become if it was ruled by one religious authority, what makes our world so special to us is the diversity of its cultures and its people. having one religion ruling that whole planet would kill each person's identity then we would all be nothing more than zombies unable to think for our selves not even able to make our decisions or having our own opinions without having to seek the approval of our leaders.

In responce to the Comments

2009-01-12T17:35:00.001-08:00

In reply to all the friendly comments I have received from the very friendly Muslims who are wishing that I repent from using my brain or suffer the burning hell fire that "Allah" has prepared for the likes of me.

From a very long time ago, I’m not worried or afraid of God, or Allah, or Jehovah, or Zeus, or any other God for that matter, those are the wonderful consequences that follow the disbelief of a common delusion, which eventually gives you more room to think about a far more productive things in life without having to waste time in worshipping and fearing something that only used to exist in my mind. The things that really scare me are the people who believe in God and the destructiveness that their blind belief has instilled in them. I’ve came to realize this when I’ve seen how Muslims respond to common sense.

Therefore I ask any Muslim to provide physical evidence that proves the existence of God, by physical evidence I mean physical measurable viewable and touchable. In other words, let your God show his /her/it’s face who or whatever he is, then I will believe you, and I promise I will be a good Muslim, till you can prove that, I ask you to keep quiet, and I ask you not to waste your time trying to convince me with the nonsense written in your Qur’an. If you think that your Qur’an holds information about future events, then I ask you to recheck your Qur’an and please refer to the explanations that your fake prophet used to explain his fake Qur’an that he himself stole half of it from the Jews and Christians, and I’m positively sure that you will find that what you call description of future events in the Qur’an are nothing but circumstantial descriptions of what ever happened in those ancient days. Qur’an says nothing about planet earth being round; in fact it says that earth was flat so that it can sustain life. I can’t imagine anything more ignorant that that. This is not very surprising and seems very reasonable for that day and age.

Your Qur’an holds no miracles in its text or in any of its pages what so ever, if you think it does. Then I’m very sorry to tell you that you’re diluting yourself and filling your mind with the rubbish that you hear coming from your cleric’s mouth at every Friday prayer.

Mohammed was as ignorant as any other typical man at his day and age, he had no special revelations nor did any god of any kind spoke to him nor was any wisdom imparted unto him in way or method.

In fact, as I have mentioned in a previous post; that Mohammed spoke out of sheer ignorance when his followers asked him questions related to creation or question related to the environment that surrounded them. Such examples can be found as follows:

Figure 1-1

This is a page that I have scanned from a book called “Al-Bedayah wal Nehayah” “The beginning and the End” this books describes events from the moment of creation up to the time of Mohammed from an Islamic perspective.

The picture mentions a verse in the Qur’an that translates to:

“It is Allah who has created seven heavens and of the earth the like thereof (i.e. seven). His command descends between them (heavens and earth), that you may know that Allah has power over all things, and that Allah surrounds all things in His knowledge.”

Mohammed explained this verse to his followers by saying that the distance between the surface of the earth to the clouds is the distance of a 500 years walk, then another 7 skies each on top of the other, each sky is a 500 year walk from bottom to top, after that there you will find the throne of God.

Luckily for us Atheists and non Atheists we have Telescopes that enables us to see millions of light years in to space, but so far no self respecting scientist has reported spotting any throne of God floating about gracefully and peacefully in deep space, even though the equipment that we have today and satellites and the Hubble telescope allows us to see much more deeper in to space than Mohammed had described in his ignorant statement. Not to mention the simple fact that we all know and are very well aware of that the clouds are not a 500 years walk away from the surface of the earth.

Furthermore, there are other things that Muslims seem to toss around as explained scientific miracles of Islam that has been mentioned in their Qur’an before even having those discoveries made in our recent age, one of those claims revolve around a the verse illustrated in this figure 1-2:

Figure 1-2

The translation of the verse is as follows: “Verily Allah is not ashamed to set forth parable even of a mosquito or so much more when it is bigger (or less when it is smaller) than it.”

Muslims claim by this verse that God has said that there are certain microscopic creatures that live on the back of a mosquito, which scientists have discovered recently while it has been mentioned in the Qur’an for more than 1400 year ago.

But what the above verse really means is; That God is not ashamed to set parables from the smallest of living creatures (mosquitoes) and above (larger living creatures) The verse is very simple but some Muslim Clerics are willing to go the extra mile by reading too much in to the lines of the Qur’an so they can twist around the words and come up with some sort of a miracle from within the lines. While the fact of the matter is there are no miracles.

The contradictions and the scientific errors are endless in the Qur’an, yet I still find Muslims turning a blind eye to the obviousness of the truth, and still blindly believing in the delusions that Mohammed has instilled in their forefathers.

God's Attributes = Conflicts

2008-09-26T04:32:00.001-07:00

While you're surfing through the net, you might have come across some websites that preach the magnificence of God and how he forgives our sins. You would also hear them tell you to repent and accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior so your soul would be spared from eternal damnation. Then they would tell you about the attributes of God and his perfection. But is he really perfect as they would claim he is?

In this article i would like to take a closer look at God's attributes and as i go along i hope that you will come to realize the conflicts that arise of such claims of perfection, I have no doubt in my mind that without any much effort of explaining you'll be able to realize the conflict on your own.

First i would like to start with the conflict of God's knowledge of the future, his knowledge of what you and i think in our most inner thoughts, what we feel and how we will feel in the future, how we react and will react to certain events that are bound to happen in the future, and his knowledge of the consequences of our decisions and reactions. Now you might have read in the bible or the Quraan that God has given human kind the freedom of choice so he can test them to see if they are worthy of his good grace. the problem that arise from this attribute is; If God really does know in advance what are the choices you're going to make, and whether you're going to be a devout Christian or Muslim, wouldn't that knowledge by it self take away your freedom of choice? A Christian or a Muslim's answer would be "Yes But God has given you the ability to sin, so that you can repent and then God would reward you" but that doesn't really answer anything does it? because even if God did in fact give humans the ability to sin, he would already know in advance which of us will repent and which of us will still doubt his existence. so giving humans the ability of choice between good and evil doesn't really work very well with God's knowledge of the future.
A good example of this problem can be found in the story of Adam and Eve, the first two humans that God had created in his heaven. After God had created those two first humans he said to them, that they are allowed to eat from all the fruits of the trees of heaven but the fruit of this certain tree they are not allowed to eat of, because when they do there eyes will be opened and they will have knowledge of good and evil, but they disobeyed God any way and they ate the fruit of that forbidden tree, and the first thing they realized that they were naked so they covered their nakedness with fig leafs, after that God punished them and all of Humanity by kicking them out of his heaven to earth. What i constantly ask my self after i hear this story is:
"How could Adam and Eve have the ability to sin if they had no knowledge of evil till they ate the fruit of the forbidden tree?" The question is paradoxical and pauses as a problem for Christians and Muslims alike. The real question is:
"If God knew in advanced that Adam and eve would eat from the fruit of that tree and disobey him, then why did he put that tree there in the first place?"

The second Attribute is the Loving Christian and Muslim God, Any believer of the sky Gods would happily parade his loving and merciful God in front of you, little does he realize that there is nothing that comes close to love and mercy in his God.Even though God claims that he loves you, he is willing to bake you in his super large oven for all eternity if you doubt his existence. Unless you realize this while you're still alive and repent from all your doubts and sins and embrace Christianity or Islam before it's too late. But what if i repent while I'm burning in hell? then would God save my tortured soul? the answer obviously is "NO" even though God loves you when you're alive he wants you to worship him and do all his bidding while you're on earth, but he most certainly hates you and despises you while you choke and scream in terrifying pain and agony in his hell that he in the first place had prepared to those that he love so much. I guess you can see the conflict in this matter. How can a loving and gentle God put some one that he claims to love and wants to save in this kind of horrifying experience?

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2008-09-20T18:24:00.001-07:00

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ما يجب على المسلمين أن يسألو أنفسهم

2008-09-18T06:07:00.000-07:00

1- من صفات المعجزة هي الإعجاز الذي لا يستطيع أحد أن ينكره مهما كان لونه و جنسه و معتقده و أيضاً أن تذهل كل عقل بما يعجز ويتحدى أي تفسير منطقي أو عقلاني بطريقة محسوسة وملموسة. فإن كان من المستحيل إنكار معجزة بينة وواضحة كالقرآن فلماذا يختار بعض المسلمين أن يشككو بهذه المعجزة والسير على طريق الإلحاد. مع الأخد بعين الإعتبار إن بعض المسلمين الذين قررو أنا يسيروا على طريق العلمانية كانو متمكنين في الدين و ذو معرفة واسعة في تفسير القرآن.

2- أحد الصفات التي يتصف بها الله هو علمه بالغيب، و علمه بما يفكر البشر و بما سيفكر به البشر والقرارات التي سيتخدونها في الحاضر والمستقبل و أيضاً معرفة الغيب بعواقب هذا التفكير و القرارات المتخدة والذي سوف يتخدونها في المستقبل. فإذا كان الإنسان مخيراً و غير مسير في إتخاد قراراته فإذاً هذا يتناقض مع صفة معرفة الغيب عند الله. فكيف يكون الإنسان مخيراً إذا كان الله مدركاً تماماً ما سيختاره و ما ستكون تبعات هذا القرار و أيضاً كان مدركاً نهاية هذا القرار (الجنة أو النار) فهذا يعني أيضاً إن الله قد رسم لكل شخص طريق محددة يسير عليها تحت وهم الإختيار والله يعلم مسبقاً إن فلان مثواه جهنم وعلان سينعم بنعيم الجنة، و هذا يتناقض كلياً مع القدرات الإلهية. كما وإن صفة الرحمن الرحيم و شديد العقاب من كبرى التناقضات في صفات الله. فتقول إن الله رحيم بعباده وشديد العقاب بالكفار، ولكن ما حاجة عباد الله إلى الرحمة إذا كانوا موعودين بالجنة؟ أما الكفار الملاعين المساكين لا يحتاجون إلى الرحمة بل هم مخلدون في نار جهنم بدون أي رحمة أو عطف؟ فكيف يكون الله رحيماً إذا رضي بتخليد من هو لا حول له ولا قوة في نار لا يمكن لبشر تخيل مدى المعاناة التي سيعاني منها الكافر؟ فكون الله هو القادر على كل شيء وذو رحمة تفوق السماوات والأرض فإذاً عليه أن يرحم من هم أضعف منه فهو لا بد أن يكون مدركاً إن ليس كل الناس يصدقون كل ما يسمعونه ولو كان الأمر كذلك لما وجدت كافراً على الأرض. ولو كان سكان الأرض كلهم مسلمين مطيعين لله فكان الله أخدنا وإستبدلنا بقوم يكفرون ويخطئون لكي يتسنى له أن يعذب أمثالي.

3- يدعي الدين المسيحي و اليهودي والإسلامي بإن البشرية بدأت من آدم و حواء، مع إن الإكتشافات العلمية قد أثبتت عكس ذلك من خلال الهياكل العضمية المتحجرة الثي عثر عليها في جنوب أفريقيا و وسط أوروبا إذ كانت بداية الإدراك الذاثي عند بداية الإنسانية قبل أكتر من ما يقارب ٤ ملايين سنه عندما بدأت قدرة النطق عند البشر الأوائل من خلال التطور الطبيعي للجهة السفلى للجمجة وهو المكان عند بداية الحلق والذي مكن أوائل البشر من التحكم بالحبال الصوتية. مع الأخد بعين الإعتبار إن الإدراك الداتي للوجود والقدرة على التفكير كانت متطورة قبل ذلك ولكن القدرة على النطق هي التي مهدت الطريق لهؤلاء البشر البدائيين على التواصل والتفاهم مع بعضهم و مكنهم من إبتكار اللغات و بناء مجتمعات مترابطة. فأما بداية البشرية من مبدأ الإدراك الذاثي للوجود والقدرة البسيطة والمبدأية على التفكير فتعود من قبل أكتر من مليون سنة أما قبل ذلك كان البشر أقرب ما يكونون من القردة وصولاً إلى المرحلة التي كانو فيها فعلاً قردة فأما المرحلة ما بين القردة وبداية نشأة الحياه على الأرض ليست إلا مراحل تطور من أحماض أمينية إلي بكتيريا أحادية الخلية إلى خلايا حية إلى حيوانات مائية و بعد ذلك برمائية و برية تمتد إلى 300 مليون سنة. و ما قبل كل ذلك يفسر بالفيزياء من الإنفجار الأعظم والذي سيكتشف العلماء صحته و كينونته قريباً بفضل أكبر تجربة علمية في تاريخ البشرية (مسرع الجسيمات Particle Accelerator) ما هو المسبب لهذا الحدث العظيم والذي نشأ منه هذا الكون.

4- فكرة وجود الخالق هي فكرة قديمة تعود إلى بداية الإنسانية نفسها وليس لبداية الكون. فعندما بدأ الإدراك الداثي عند أوائل البشر بفضل التطور والإرتقاء الطبيعي كان أول الأسئلة التي يطرحونها على أنفسهم (من نحن؟ من أين أتينا؟ ولماذا نحن هنا؟ وما هو مصيرنا؟) وهذا السؤال الأزلي و الجهل الذي كان يطغى على تلك الأزمان كان يجعل هؤلاء البشر البدائيين يفترضون وجود كائنات ذاث قوى خارقة قادرة على إصلاح مستوى حياتهم مثل توفيقهم عند خروجهم للصيد أو معاقبتهم عندما يرجعون من الصيد خالي اليدين. ظروف الحياه الصعبة والمصادفات النادرة التي كانت تحدت في تلك الأيام تجعل هؤلاء البشر يتسائلون مثلاً إذا كانت الشمس هي التي توفقهم في الصيد و عندما تغيب الشمس تظهر الحيوانات الظارية والظلمة والذي بدوره كان يبث الخوف في قلوبهم خوفاً على حياتهم. مما جعلهم يتمنون طلوع الشمس و حمايتهم من المخاطر التي تأتي مع ظلمة الليل. فقرروا أن يقدموا جزاً من ما يصطادونه لهذه الشمس لكي لا تغيب عنهم وتبارك لهم صيدهم وإبتكرو أساليب لعبادة هذه الشمس وهم يحاولون عبثاً إرضاء هذا الشيء اللامع في السماء لكي لا يحرمهم من نوره. و مع مضي الأيام زاد إحترامهم للشمس لما يجلبه من فوائد عند طلوعه و ما يأتي بعد غيابه من مصائب. وكل من يجرؤ على عدم تقديم القرابين للشمس كان يتهم بالكفر و كان يقتل لكي لا تغضب منهم الشمس و تغيب عنهم إلى الأبد. و عندما شهدوا خسوف الشمس أصابهم هلعٌ أكبر حين ظنوا إن الشمس في إشتباك دامي مع قوى الظلام فأخدوا يصلون ويهللون لنصرة الشمس كما وتزال الكثير من الحضارات في يومنا هذا تقوم بالصلاه والتهليل للشمس حين خسوفها كالصينين الذين يعتقدون إن تنيناً قد إلتهم شمسهم فيقومون بالضرب على الطبول لكي يبتعد عنهم هذا التنين و يعيد لهم شمسهم. وفي الإسلام أيضاً فيعتقد المسلمون إن في حالة حدوث الخسوف فإن الله سيبقي الشمس في حالة خسوف في حال كان يرى إن البشر لا يستحقون ما يحضره هذا النجم من خيرات فيأخد المسلم بالصلاه مع الجماعة و الدعاء وقراءة القرآن وهم يتوسلون لربهم أن يرجع لهم الشمس فما وجه الإختلاف بين ما يفعله الصينيون والمسلمون ولماذا إله المسلمين هو الحق وليس إله الصينين بودا أو كريشنا إله الهنود أو داينايسيس إله الإغريق أو جوجو العظيم إله إحدى القبائل الأفريقية أو أبولو و باكلوس و سيريس و جونو و جوبيتر و فينوس و فيستا والمزيد المزيد من آلهة الروم الذين حققوا بفضله إنتصارات يشهد لها كتب التاريخ لإنجازات تلك الحضارة. لماذا المسلمون هم على حق وباقي شعوب العالم على ظلالة من أمرهم؟ مع إن الديانة البودية مثلاً تدعو إلى السلام من قبل الإسلام والنصرانية فلماذا لا نتبع الديانة البودية مع إنها أيضاً تنهى عن الزنى و شرب الخمر و إيذاء الغير والإمتناع عن الكذب والقتل و أكثر من ذلك؟

5- إن الديانات و نشأتها تكون ظرفية و مرتبطة في مكان جغرافي و زمن و أحذاث معينة مسببة لوجود هذا الذين فكما في السؤال السابق إعتمد نشأة إله الشمس على جهل الناس بحقيقة الشمس نفسها فلو عرفوا إن الشمس مجرد أفران نووية ليس لديها القدرة على التفكير أو القدرة على المكافئة أو العقاب فما كانو ليعبدو هذا النجم و كانو سيعبدون شيء أخر يجهلونه ذات معنى عظيم و ذو فائدة أعظم حتى يدركوا إنه مجرد عمل قامو به من وراء جهالة و عدم معرفة. فالديانات أيضاُ تخضع للتطور والإرتقاء الطبيعي. فقد بدأ بداية بسيطة جداً و مع مرور الزمن أصبح معقداً أكثر فأكثر و تفرعت من هذه الديانة ديانات أخرى و تعددت الآلهه حتى أصبح في زمننا هذا الآلاف من الديانات و أكتر من ستة بلايين من البشر ليختارو ما يناسبهم أو ليختار منها أولياء الأمور ما يناسب أطفالهم فينشؤونهم على إعتقادات معينة متناسبة مع المجتمع الذي يعيشون فيه. فالدين الإسلامي أيضاً لم يكن مولوداً من صدفة فهو أيضاً تطور و إرتقاء للديانة المسيحية و الديانة المسيحية نفسها هي تطور و إرتقاء لعبادات وثنية مرتبطة بحركة الأجرام السماوية و التحركات الشمسية والقمرية كما كان الدين المسيحي إقتباساً شبه حرفي لسيرة حياة الفرعون حورس كما إقتبس كماً كبيراً من سيرة حياة الإله كريشنا إله الهند آنذاك و ديانايسيس إله الإغريق. أما الصفات التي أقتبستها المسيحية من الأديان السابقة هي قصة مولد عيسى من مريم العذراء و قصة خيانته على يد أحد صحابته و تعديبه و صلبه و موته و رجوعه إلى الحياة حتى صعوده إلى السماء ليلاقي ربه إلى أن يرجع إلى الأرض مرة أخرى كما يعتقد الكثير من المسيحيين. والجدل الأكبر في تشابه قصص هؤلاء الآلهه يعود إلى الأحداث الزمنية المتطابقة عند كل هؤلاء الآلهة و هو تاريخ ولادة عيسى فيحكي الإنجيل إن عيسى ولد في اليوم الخامس والعشرين من ديسمبر و هو بداية التقويم الميلادي، النقطة المهمة في هذا التاريخ هو ما يرتبط به ما قبل ذلك فلكياً لأن في هذه الفترة تكون الشمس في أخفض نقطة من محور الأرض فلا ترتفع الشمس إلى كبد السماء في ذلك التاريخ أنما يكون ظاهراً في الأفق بالنسبة لسكان النصف الشمالي للكرة الأرضية. فكان القدماء يقولون في هذا التاريخ "إن الشمس ماتت و سوف ترجع للحياة و ستنتعش الأرض مرة أخرى" و هذه المقولة كانت نسبة لإعتدال محور الأرض خلال دورانه حول الشمس و مواجهة الشمس له في تلك الفترة يحين موعد الربيع والصيف و تظهر الشمس في كبد السماء مرة أخرى حيث تنمو المحاصيل مجدداً، فما علاقة هذا بمولد المسيح؟ و بالآلهة الأخرى الذين سبق ذكرهم؟ قصة مولد المسيح عيسى إبن مريم مطابقة تماماً للآلهة التي سبقته و التواريخ أيضاً مطابقة تماماً فهذا يعني إن الديانة المسيحية مقتبسة من أديان وثنية سابقة تعود من أيام عبادة و تمجيد الشمس. الأديان تتفرع و تتشعب كما تتكون اللغات من لغة واحدة تتحول إلى لهجات حسب إستخدام هذه اللغة في جغرافية معينة من الأرض و حسب الثقافات المختلفة و مع دوران الزمن تصبح هذه اللهجات مختلفة تماماً عن اللغة الأم حتى تصبح بدورها لغة مختلفة تماماً. فهذا ما حدث مع الدين حيت بدأ بعبادة الشمس و تطور بعد ذلك إلى أسلوب معيشة و تضحيات و

إخلاص حتى تكونت العبادات الوثنية التي تقدم الأضاحي والقرابين و العبادات اليومية والأدعية كما نرى في دين الإسلام و الأديان الأخرى و من ثم تطورت و تشعبت و تعقدت و أصبحت ديانات سماوية مع الحفاظ على بعض الصفات القديمة لها. ما هو أعظم من ذلك هو مع تواجد الكثير من المؤرخين في زمن عيسى و ما قبله من أنبياء قاموا بمعجزات عظيمة مثل شق البحر و العبور من خلاله و تحول العصى إلى أفعى سخط قوم لوط و سخط قوم عاد و ثمود مع إن هذه المعجزات العظيمة حدثث أمام العيان مع ذلك لم يأتي ذكرها في أي من كتب التاريخ. مع الأخد بعين الإعتبار إن هناك كتب أقدم من الديانة المسيحية نفسها و هي متوفرة في المكتبات و تتحدث هذه الكتب عن توافه الأمور مقارنة بالمعجزات الثي حدثث آنذاك فلماذا لم يكتب المؤرخون عن هذه المعجزان إذا حدثث فعلاً على أرض الواقع؟.

6- يعتقد الكتير من المتدينين إن قوة إيمانهم في معتقداتهم هو الدليل القاطع لصحة دينهم، فأصعب شيء على المرء هو أن يغير معتقداته لأن هذا المعتقد قد أصبح جزء لا يتجزء من أسلوب حياته وأصبح طريقة إستيعابه للأمور التي تجري من حوله حتى نضعه في مكان مختلف كلياُ و مجتمع مختلف كلياً فنجد إن معتقداته ستتغير شيئاً فشيئاً حسب إنفتاح عقله للتغيير فأن هو لم يتغير فمن المؤكد إن نسله من بعده سيتغير و يكون معتقدات المجتمع المختلف كلياً هو أساس إيمانهم العميق. وهناك عوامل أخرى تردع المرء من تغيير معتقداته مثل أساليب الترهيب والترغيب التي تستخدمها كل الديانات فهذا الأسلوب يخلق رادعاً نفسياً مقنَعاً بشكل من أشكال التمسك بالدين خوفاً من أن يعاقب في الدنيا أو الآخرة فنجد الناس يرددون عبارات تهليل و تمجيد و تبجيل لربهم و هو بحد داته أسلوب آخر ينصح به الدين لترسيخ المعتقدات في العقل الباطني. فلو بقيت تردد لنفسك إنك "زرافة" من يوم ولادتك حتى تصل لسن البلوغ فبالتأكيد ستكون مقتنعاً بأنك زرافة لأنك لا تعرف أي شيء آخر سوى معرفة ترديد جملة "أنا زرافة" و بعد إقتناعك بأنك زرافة ستحاول أن تقنع جميع من حولك بأن يصبحو زرافات مثلك و إذا لم يقبلوا أن يصبحو زرافات فبالنسبة لك هم الهالكون و أنت ستعتقد إنك الوحيد الذي على حق. فإذا لا بد أن تستخدم أسلوب التخويف لترغم الناس على الإيمان بمعتقدك فماذا تفعل لتصل إلى هذا الإنجاز:

أولاً: يمكن أن تشن حرباً دموية بإستخدام كل ما لديك من قوة و أن تسبي النساء تزني بهم حتى يلدو لك أطفالاً تربيهم و تعلمهم على ترديد عبارة "أنا زرافة.. قاتل من يقول لك عكس ذلك" حتى يصبحو هم أيضاً زرافات و يقومون بدورهم نشر قناعة الزرافة الذي أصبتهم به... و هكذا دواليك.

ثانياً: يمكنك إستخدام أسلوب الكذب وأن تنشر قصصاً خرافية عن إلهِ يعذب كل من لا يقول عن نفسه زرافة، وأنصحك بأن تبدأ بالناس المقربين لك والذين يعتقدون إنك لن تكذب عليهم فيصدقوك مباشرة، و يفضل أن يكونو جاهلين أو أجهل منك.

ثالثاً: يمكنك أن تعد من تريد دعوته إلى ديانة الزرافة بجنان يجدون ما يحلو لهم فيها ولكن سينالون هذه الجنة بشرط أن يموتوا وهم يؤمنون إنهم زرافات لأنك لن تستطيع أن تمنحهم ما يريدون و هم على قيد الحياه وتعرف أيضاً إن لم ينالوا شيئاً بعد موتهم فلا سبيل لهم للرجوع إلى الحياه وكشف النقاب عن أكاذيبك، أو أن تعدهم بجنان أعظم إذا ماتوا وهم يقاتلون من لا يقتنع بأنه زرافة.

و هذه أحد أبسط الوسائل المعروفة بالنجاح من تجربة واقعية.

ولكن لا يتوقف الأمر عند ذلك، فبنشر معتقدات خاطئة مهما كنا مؤمنين بصحتها فنحن نقتل الجزء الأكبر من أنفسنا ألا وهو القدرة على الشك والتحليل المنطقي لأن الدين ليس ما يشفي من الأمراض إنما هم الأطباء والعلماء الدين يكرسون جل وقتهم في البحث العلمي المضني والتجارب المستمرة فشل بعد فشل حتى يتسنى لنا أن نبلع حبة دواء فيشفي عللنا وبعد ذلك ننسى جهود هؤلاء العلماء و نشكر الله. لو كرس الناس كل الوقت الذي يهدرونه على التعليم عوضاً عن العبادات والأدكار التي ليس لها أول ولا آخر لكنا أصبحنا أكثر أمة مثقفة و واعية ناهيك عن ذكر كل ما يمكن تحقيقه من إنجازات وإختراعات. ففي أرض الواقع وفي المجتمع الإسلامي تذهب معضم التبرعات المعفية من كل أنواع الضرائب إلى جهات لا تضر ولا تنفع الأمة فنرى المساجد تبنى في كل ركن و نحن نعلم يقيناً إن هذه المساجد لا تجد فيها حتى دوائاً للرشحة إنما هي أماكن لغسيل الأدمغة و توليد و توجيه الكره والضغائن إلى الديانات الأخرى فتارة ننعتهم بالضالين وتارة أخرى ننعتهم بالقردة والخنازير. فكيف نتجرء بقول إن الدين الإسلامي هو دين تسامح؟ ليس الدين الإسلامي فقط بل جميع الأديان السماوية تأمر بمحاربة ومقاتلة الأديان الأخرى بشتى الوسائل فنجد المبشرين يجوبون كل بقاع الأرض إعتقاداً منهم إنهم يصلحون في الأرض وكل ما هم يفعلونه هو بناء جيش يتولد لديه الحقد لأخيه الإنسان لمجرد إن لديه إعتقاد مخالف لإعتقاد أخيه. فينظرون إلينا نظرة دونية على إننا المساكين وإننا على ظلالة من أمرنا وإننا مجرد أسماء على قائمة أصحاب السعير.

فرجوعاً إلى كون الدين يتغير حسب الجغرافيا والثقافات والعادات الموجودة فلنفرض إنك ولدت في أمريكا الشمالية لأبوين كاثوليكيين، فبطبيعة الحال ستكون مسيحياً كاثوليكياً وسيكون لديك نفس الإيمان القوي بصحة دينك الكاثوليكي كما تؤمن بإسلامك. نفس الشيء ينطبق لو ولدت في الهند لأبوين هندوسيين. أيضاً ستكون هندوسياً مقتنعا بصحة دينك الهندوسي كما أنت مقتنع الآن بصحة معتقدك الإسلامي. فكما أنت لديك مبررات لدينك أيضاً المسيحي والبودي والهندوسي والسيخي واليهودي والبروتستنتي وكل ذي معتقد وديانة لديه مبررات توازي بل و قد تزيد عن مبرراتك وحججك. فأيكم أصح؟ من الطبيعي أن تقول إن الإسلام هو الأصح و أيضاً من الطبيعي أن أقول أنا أصح والهندوسي سيقول إنه أصح... فواقع الأمر إن كل واحد يردد ما هو مكتوب في كتابه. فأما كتابي قد كتبه أهل علم و أصحاب تجارب و خبرات و إنجازات ملموسة على أرض الواقع فإيماني أقوى بالإنجازات التي ألمسها والتي أستطيع القياس عليها.

7- كلنا كنا ملحدين في فترة من حياتنا، فالطفل عندما يولد ليس لديه أي إدراك عن أية ديانات وأية نزاعات طائفية فكل ما يراه و يسمعه و يحس به هو العالم المادي من حوله وهو هذا العالم المادي الذي ينمي حواسه ويجعله قادراً على التعلم من محيطه حتى يُكَبر أبواه في أذنه ويختم عليه بختم الإسلام وهو لا يدرك إنه قد إنتزع منه حق الإختيار، فنرى كيف يتم القضاء على برائة الطفولة عندما يقول له أبواه "هذا يهودي خنزير و هذا نصراني قرد و هذا ملحد كلب و هذا هندوسي ضال و هذا و ذاك".

Why are we here?

2008-08-09T16:14:00.000-07:00

Before i go any further i would like to clarify to the readers that every thing i have written here is just my personal views and my thoughts about how we perceive our existence in relation to reality and the revocation of the God theory.

Why are we alive? what purpose do we serve by being here? Those questions are not new to any one, certainly to some one who has been contemplating about the reason for his/her existence. Yet so far little did manage to answer that question, but still those answers are nothing but theories and personal points of view on how some one perceives his/her existence. No matter how much thought or how much we wrestle with this question it keeps staring back in our faces with irony, our existence it seems to play a cruel joke as it we stumble around our busy lives thinking that we are so special that the universe revolves around us human beings.

But we're not as special as we think we are, however we maybe special to our selves or to the people we manage to empress with our gifted and highly evolved brains, but we're not any were near to being special in this universe or any other universe for that matter.

As human beings, having the power of knowledge and intellectuality, and reasoning power, we tend to come up with ways as attempts to justify our existence and answer our life long question "why are we here?" as a result some of us come up with brilliant ideas and theories, and some other come up with ignorant and delusional ideas and theories that are not based on any physical or scientific principles. Those ignorant ideas and theories come to us in the form of "religion" "God". because people need to believe that their life has a purpose, without a purpose they feel that their is no meaning to their existence.

That's is not true, believing in the existence of a God, dose not validate our existence, we are here, and we do exist with or without a God, and even without that God, we do have a purpose in life, that purpose is to procreate and to advance, and build and live on this planet, our purpose is to self sustain and to discover the vastness of the universe that we live in as nature has intended for us from the moment we started to evolve from bacterial beginning, and to go beyond the boundaries of this universe, Saying that God put us here so that we can worship him, is by it self as bad as taking large amounts of hallucinogenic drugs and destroying brain cells. Religion has been clouding our minds for so many centuries and it still does the same thing.

Life and Death experience is not a proof of God's existence, and just because some people are able to validate the concept of a supreme being who is able to control our live and see through our every thought at every moment of our lives is not a scientific proof, nor is it an acceptable proof that God does exist.

The reason for this is that people involve their emotions when they try to find the reason for their existence, and automatically they always go after the more convenient conclusion, the one that acts as a security blanket, even though reality is not as pleasant as we imagine it, sure it is reassuring to know that some one will be rewarded for their good deeds with a place filled with rivers of wine, and the most delicious fruits. Still it is not reality, reality is here on earth it is among us yet we fail to see it, we fail to see how we are hypnotized by figures of authority that use religion as an excuse to control our thoughts and our behavior and control the way we eat the way we interact with people the way we talk, the way we dress, the way think, the way we walk, that very same authority tells us how we should love, who we should hate, how should we spend our time, they tell us to bend over backwards and give up our minds and our freedom of though and speech, so that they can use us and abuse us and squeeze every drop of blood and dignity that we have left, we are oppressed by religion we feel it exercising it's oppression on us as we pay taxes, as we learn in schools, we are being brainwashed in every waking moment of our life, Yet we still fail to see what they are doing to us, they have us blindfolded from the truth, they draw an ugly picture and promise to deliver lakes of holly fire for those who dare to take the blindfolds off, and promise to deliver heaven to those who obey and live the rest of their lives as sheep, those promises are false, there is no heaven and there is no hell, there is no life after death, our life is what we make of it, God will only exist in our heads, because there is no place for him in our universe, God is nothing but an electric impulse traveling in our neuron networks of our brains, God is nothing, Nothing belongs to no were, therefor we should abolish this false thought from our minds, and set our selves free from the chains of this authority before it destroys us and destroys every thing we've worked for and built.

We came to existence by random chance, there is nothing special about that, but it is the closest thing to logic, saying that God created us does not solve unlock the secrets of the universe, because if God did create us, logic would demand a creator for the creator. Islam claims that the big bang theory is mentioned in the Holy Qura'n, but I will have to disagree with that, after doing some intensive research, the paragraph in the Qura'n about the big bang theory that Muslims seem to tose around so happily has nothing to do with that. in fact, the Qura'n says that God created a flat earth at the beginning of creation, then he built the universe around it in a form of seven layers. what is more ignorant is that when Muhammad explained the universe to his followers he was very much mistaken about the dimensions of our planet, and the distances that separate between us and the clouds in the sky, and the dimensions of the universe it self.

For instance, Muhammad would say that the distance between the surface of earth and the clouds is a 500 year walk. then he would say that our planted is divided in to seven layers, the thickness of each layer is a 700 year walk, which is completely wrong. further more, Muhammad also divided space into seven layers each layer's thickness is equal to a 500 years walk and above that is an ocean the distance from the bottom of that ocean to it's surface is equal to the whole 7 layers of space all put together, and above that is the throne of God.

If i were to run a simple calculation and add up those numbers i would come to this conclusion:

If an average person could walk at least 80 kilometers each day, then we multiply that by 365 which are the total number of days in one year. the result would be 29200 Kilometers per year, then if we multiply that number by 500, the result for that would be 14600000, then multiply that by 7, the result would be 102200000 Kilometers, then finally multiply that by 2, which is the measure of the ocean that sprays above the 7 layers of space, the result would finally come to this distance 204400000 Kilometers.

So, if you travel 204400000 Kilometers deep in to space in a straight line, then you should run in to God. The only problem is, that sun is 500 light seconds or 8 light minuts away from us, in kilometers the sun is 150000000 kilometers away from earth, this means that God is at twice the distance away from us. Keep in mind that the distance of the nearest star which is called Proxima Centauri is 678024000000 Kilometers away from our planet. If that is the case, then logically speaking, If the Proxima Centauri among other far away stars that are visible in the night sky as well as the sun the shines brightest of all because it is is so close to us, then imagine a God who is so great and so big and huge and so magnificent and so luminant and has a very shiny face, who's larger than all the planets and the sun and all the stars put together and who is not as far from us as our sun, wouldn't we be able to see that God?

God exists because we only believe that he exists, God is Freddy Kruger, he haunts our thought and our dreams, and he is only able to harm us if we believe in him. once you stop believing he can harm you no more.

Demonic possession in Islam

2008-03-08T23:04:00.000-08:00

Islam has told so many stories about evil spirits that dwell in places such as wastelands, and unclean places like bathrooms. It also told us stories about how those evil demonic spirits posses our bodies and make do things beyond our control.

So what is an evil spirit? In religious definition; an evil spirit (or any spirit) is a creature that “God” created from fire, this creature is invisible to humans, and has super natural abilities. One of those abilities is possessing humans (obviously).

Points of weakness: Evil spirits are claimed to be powerful creatures, but just like any other creature they have weakness points. The most great weakness those evil spirits have is when someone repeats certain verses from the Holly Qur’an, and when praising God’s name when someone feels the presence of an evil spirits.

When do evil spirits possess humans? There are so many scenarios for an evil spirit to possess a human such as when you enter a bathroom (un-clean places) without praising God’s name (Thank God for Jeff the powerful bath cleaner), or when you’re walking in a complete wasteland where all evil spirits dwell, Not believing in God’s existence, urinating or defecating on the holly Qur’an, and lastly when you go to sleep without saying your prayers.

Of course, everything mentioned above is a huge load of nonsense. And of course there is no such thing as evil spirit or demonic possession. And if you’re a religious person, you must be asking yourself, “If it’s nonsense, then why do millions of people believe in it?”

In all my discussion about religion, I find myself returning to the very same argument that sparked the beginning of religion and everything else that we take and take not for granted. The Brain, it is the one organ in our body that makes us know that we exist, our brain naturally needs to ask questions and find answers as part of its natural role to gather information that can best serve us in our every day struggle to survive in our man-made-jungle.

So what does demonic possession has to do with our brain? Well, surely you must’ve gone out in to the dark woods one day, and felt un-easy as if a presence of something watching you and out to get you. The reason you feel fear when walking alone in dark places is the natural reaction of the mind to that kind of place, it is a defense mechanism as if you’re brain is telling you to be careful. Our brain is always keeping us on full alert when we’re in a place that looks like is filled with danger or in a place that a predator could be lurking in the shadows.

Islam exploits our fears of unknown danger, it tells us stories about evil creature that watch us from other worlds waiting for a chance to possess us and control our bodies and brains. And yes Islam benefits a lot from making you feel afraid. For a very simple reason; when we’re feeling week and afraid we wish that there is someone powerful that can take away our fears and make us feel relieved, This is when Islam tells us to turn to a holly delusion to rid ourselves of a fear that Islam itself has planted in our minds, a person who keeps counting on a delusion to put his/her mind at ease, is at risk of losing his/her sanity to that very same delusion.

Counting on an imaginary God to save us from evil spirits is as depending on Spiderman to save us from the green goblin. Neither of them exists, so why are we so afraid? The basic reason for our fear is because of all the stories that we hear from early ages, it’s not any different from when a child learns not to touch hot objects, the experience can be excruciating and prints a trigger in the mind that makes a child afraid of getting near hot objects in the future. In our everyday life we are exposed to graphic violence on television, even at an early age, not to mention that we find ourselves drawn in to watching horror films that has an indirect impact on our way of thinking.

The point is; that our fear of evil spirits does not make them real, as long as we can understand the reason and history behind such an idea, the fear will go away. Islam was not the first ideology to come up with such mythical creatures; they are also mentioned to exist in all other religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism … etc. It seems like using the “demonic possession” propaganda is Islam’s way of making a person dependent on a illusionary God to save him/her from a predator that does not exist in the first place.

Many people of this day and age have wised-up, and decided not to believe in such superstitions yet millions and millions more in 3^rd world nations believe in the existence of those creatures, even though they have never seen it or felt it. The fact of the matter is that people who are not willing to probe deep to find answers find themselves accepting superstitions as facts.

There are people suffering from unknown psychological problems that make them act and behave abusively to others or to themselves, thousands of years ago, those psychological illnesses were considered demonic possessions, and were treated by strapping down the sick person and beating them with torture tools as to expel the evil spirit inside them. Since then science has advanced and realized that religion was wrong about demonic possession, as it turns out that the human brain is a very complex thing, and most of the time it confuses between fact and fiction, because there is a very thin line between sanity and insanity.

Living and working in Saudi Arabia for more than five years, has given me a chance to closely observe the fear of that, which does not exist, even though were living in the twenty first century there are millions of people here swapping stories about demonic possessions, a colleague of mine at work is always concerned about his father’s psychological state, he claims that his father is possessed by an evil spirit, that makes him behave hysterically, so instead of taking him to a professional psychologist, he admitted his father to an Imam, naturally the Imam declared that his father is possessed by an evil spirit, and that he would have to expel the evil spirit by using the traditional methods, not only his father’s condition got worse but now he is also beaten up by superstitious person who believes that he has the knowledge of curing people and giving fake hope to them. Taking that in to consideration, my colleague hasn’t learned from that experience and took his father to real doctor; instead he took his friend’s advice and admitted his father again to other Imams.

What it all comes down to in the end is this, that our ignorance and unwillingness to accept science as a fact, and the willingness to accept religion’s mythology is the main reason why we are in danger of hurting ourselves and the people around us. The universe is vast enough and filled with so much mysteries that science may not be able to explain at this point, but that doesn’t mean that it is not capable of finding the answers eventually. Religion was wrong about so many things, it was wrong about the earth’s movement, and believing that physical sickness was caused by demonic possession, Religion was wrong then, and it’s still wrong now, and it will still be wrong in the future.

Near Death Delusions

2007-08-13T02:17:00.001-07:00

Like every typical morning, i arrived to work, and like always, the first thing i do is check my e-mail, then I found an e-mail waiting in my inbox with the subject "Saved from Hell - Rev. Howard Storm's near-death experience" so I would like to quote some text from the e-mail and present it to you in this blog post:

“Rev. Howard Storm, a Professor of Art at Northern Kentucky University, was not a very pleasant man. He was an avowed atheist and was hostile to every form of religion and those who practiced it. He often would use rage to control everyone around him and he didn't find joy in anything. Anything that wasn't seen, touched, or felt, he had no faith in. He knew with certainty that the material world was the full extent of everything that was. He considered all belief systems associated with religion to be fantasies for people to deceive themselves with. Beyond what science said, there was nothing else.”

After reading this, it got me thinking about the other large amount of emails I received regarding famous scientists converting to Christianity or to Islam, not just e-mails, but I also you can read about it in religious blogs that are spread all over the internet like butter on toasted bread.

As I read the e-mail I’m filled with shock and dismay as to how religion always portrays Atheists. As if we are savage blood thirsty monsters. Therefore I decided to write this post and perhaps manage to explain the motives of such accusations made towards Atheists by religion.

First I need to stress out and clarify to the readers that Humans are emotional beings when it comes to family values friendships and life or death experiences. For example a person who gets insulted reacts to the insult according to his/her emotions. And depending on that persons “sensitive nature” dictates the amount or the magnitude of the reaction of that person. In our everyday life we go through all sorts of emotional experience that by itself shapes and defines how we act, react, and respond to those experiences, and how we act, react, and respond to similar experiences in the future.

Sometimes those experiences could have a strong impact on us, and it could and in most cases can alter how we behave to certain factors that contributed to that experience. Now, let’s set up an equation for this:

Magnitude of Experience + Person’s Emotional state = the amount of Alteration of that person’s behavior.

Rev. Howard Storm went through an emotional experience due to a perforation of the stomach that according to his emotional state changed his behavior. That blinded his mind from facts and logic. The high level of experience that he experienced made him delusional for that period of time, which made him imagine “a bright light at the end of a long tunnel”. It is a very well known fact that our mind plays tricks on us in certain times especially when we’re being deeply in an emotional state. There is however other factors that lead Rev. Howard Storm to his delusion during his near death experience. Which is the rule that religion plays in our everyday life, and how it always manages to infiltrate our minds with its teaching and preaching, just like a magician who prepares his audience for hypnosis, as the crowd carefully watch his hands and eyes gestures and listen to his words that echo deep in to their minds, then they find themselves helplessly giving in then the magician starts programming his audiences minds through spoken words and commands them to execute his word after he counts till three and snap his fingers. Religion plays the same role as the magician. It fills our minds with fairy tales and stories that are not related to logic or common sense in what so ever way. This goes on from the day you’re born till one day you go through an experience that makes you lose your sense of logical judgment for a certain amount of time in that amount of time religion snaps it’s fingers, as all the teachings and preaching you’ve had heard since your childhood till that day storms through your mind and you become fully hypnotized to religion’s will. At that moment of weakness a person admits to his/her delusion as facts. Religion finds opportunity in times like this to spread its disease to gain more control over the masses, it takes advantage of our weakness of our fears and emotions. And turn it all against us if we decide not accept to swallow their poison.

And if you do not accept superstations as facts, then you become abandoned and neglected and hated and despised by the vast majority of religious people whom your parents friends family the society that surrounds you could be part of. I can’t recall meeting an Atheist who’s unpleasant, in fact all Atheists that I have crossed paths with are people who are concerned with global issues and the wrong moral teachings of religion such as war against nations with different beliefs and forcing religion down the troths of people whom by their birth right have the right to say decline such doctoring of the mind.

The way that religion forces itself on Atheists contributes to the way how Atheists react to such attitude taken towards them, and being a minority in a society that has no respect for your rights to think and believe freely it builds hatred and discomfort, not to mention the feeling of oppression which leads to being resentful and in many cases sarcastic towards the very same people that exercise oppression and brutal force to subdue beliefs other than theirs.

People come in all sorts of colors and backgrounds; it is not an Atheist’s convictions that dictate his/her actions, but it’s the lifestyle that he/she was brought up upon. If you teach a child to hate a number of people, then that child will grow up with that hate built in to his/her mind which is what religion exercises through church, mosques, and school in a systematic manner.

Religion has been dictating how we should behave and live and eat for thousands of years, and we’ve submitted our most precious gift (our minds) to a delusion, I believe it is time for us to rid ourselves from this delusion and start dictating to ourselves on how to best behave and act in a way that is not harmful to others.

Believe or Else

2007-02-04T06:49:00.000-08:00

"There is no compulsion in religion; truly the right way has become clearly distinct from error; therefore, whoever disbelieves in the Shaitan (Devil) and believes in Allah he indeed has laid hold on the firmest handle, which shall not break off, and Allah is Hearing, Knowing." Verse 256 The Cow Sura.

One of the many contradictions in Islam, is the one that preaches about freedom of belief, in the verse above from the Quran it clearly states that there is no compulsion in Islam, any one who reads this might feel re-asured, i know i did. then when you read the verse that follows it, the whole concept changes.

"Allah is the guardian of those who believe. He brings them out of the darkness into the light; and (as to) those who disbelieve, their guardians are Shaitans (Devil) who take them out of the light into the darkness; they are the inmates of the fire, in it they shall abide." Verse 257 The Cow Sura.

It is pretty obviouse now that the second verse contradicts with the first one, because Mohammad tells you that no one is forcing you to become a Muslim or to remain Muslim, then on the second verse he promises those who don't convert to Islam or who don't remain in Islam will have to suffer the torment of hell fire. I guess there is not much of choice there, Believe or burn in hell. It sounds like an effective scheme to put fear in the minds of the ignorant, and make him/her submit to his/her delusions which Mohammad had planted in his/her minds, at the same time believing that they didn't feel forced or brutally forced to be Muslims.

It is nothing more than a mind games that Mohammad likes to play on his followers, to insure obedience, submission, and leadership over the masses, and he was also good at setting examples along the way by killing all those who didn't believe him or criticized him by executing them in public, thus planting more fear in the hearts of people, fear to speak, fear of freedom, and fear of thinking, or doubt. Even now more than 1400 years after his death, people are afraid to doubt Gods existence even at their own discretion, because they've seen they have a delusion a scary fantasy in their minds that repels them from doubting, even if for some reason they start to doubt for as less as a micro-second, they mumble a few of Mohammad's magic words to repent from the sin of doubting.

Mohammad had left behind the book that he wrote "Quran" this book is now used to fulfill Mohammad's birocracy by terrorising the innocent, killing and torturing those who don't believe. Even on a smaller scale, when it comes to family relations, an atheist or a person who doesn't believe in the relegion of the parents will be an out-cast and will be rejected, his/her friends will see him/her as a person who's on hell's waiting list. It is that same relegion that takes away the goodness from people's heart. and replaces it with revenge.

Islamic Miracles in Nature

2007-02-03T02:53:00.000-08:00

You might have heard about or seen some of the pictures that Muslims claim to be a miraculous work of God (Allah). They are posted every were on the net mainly in Islamic websites. Here i will show you a few pictures with a little comment on each picture.

I remember when i was about 7 years old i used to play a game with my friends, as we watch the cloudy sky, and imagine the shapes that clouds form, and try to guess what that shape is. in the above picture Muslims claim that a divine force had shaped that cloud to form the name of "Allah" in Arabic calligraphy. it makes me wonder though. Why would god shape his name on a cloud in Arabic calligraphy, so that only Arabs can understand his "message" why didn't he shape it in English letters? does Arabs really need any more convincing of the existence of a divine delusion?

Let's look at it from a more logical perspective, which is that clouds shift shapes thousands of times every day, and it forms millions of shapes that really looks like a face or a bunny rabbit, etc. couldn't it be possible that out of those millions of shapes that the clouds had took form of, to form a single shape that looks like the Arabic word of "Allah"?

This picture is not any different from the one above it, it's also based on the same principle of chance. through-out not just millions, but billions of years that it is a given fact that trees also grow to take different shapes. Muslims see this as a person in the "Ruku" position which is a position taken during prayer. The fact of the matter is that every one can look at this image from their own perspective using a little imagination. for example in that image i don't see a person praying to god, but i do see some one bending over about to get fucked.

At this point, I'm thinking that Muslims had really out-done them selves, but i got one word for this picture "coincidence" which is also explained by the same principle that i have explained above.

Here is another interesting picture, this was taken in Indonesia, when the unfortunate disaster took place "Tsunami" In the picture there is a mosque that had survived this disaster, which made Muslims go "wow" and also had put them in the delusion that God (Allah) had protected that mosque. Could it be; that the mosque didn't collapse because it is made from heavy concrete cement and was re-enforced with a lot of steel? If you take a look at the top of the image you will also find another building that had survived the disaster, could it also be that God was protecting that building as well? or could it be that the other building is built from concrete and re-enforced with steel as well? while all the other houses were not strong enough to stand against such a great natural disaster.

Not to mention that Muslims believe Tsunami was sent by God to punish Indonesians for their sins. Look at the statistics, the victims of Tsunami were poor and innocent people, so it appears that in God's logic it's a sin to be poor.

Finely, If there was a God who is causing natural disasters to punish nations for their sins, and since God hates jews so much; then why doesn't that same God send a Tsunami to Israel and kill every jewish there so that Muslims can "claim back their God given right to own that land?".

A person who has a high level of intellect would easily refute those pictures as evidence of the existence of a supreme being. coincidence is not a word that refers to something that happened out of blind chance, there are laws the govern the randomness of our universe, and it's the accumulations of those law's results that leads to what we perceive as blind chance. We just have to look at the matter from a wider perspective so we can see the big picture, instead of narrowing our selves to only one imaginary solution "God".

There is nothing special about the above pictures, simply because we can look at random things and see what ever we like, i have collected some pictures of random things we see in every day life, that vaguely, or clearly looks like a duck as can seen bellow:

If i were to interpret these images as most Muslims do, then the only conclusion that i would come up with is that God is a duck.

Nature can be chaotic and random, and it produces things in so many random shapes and sizes, if we look close enough we are bound at some point to see something from nature that happens to resemble something familiar to us, that doesn't mean that there is a divine force at work.

What does religion really want from you?

2007-02-02T17:33:00.000-08:00

It is no longer a surprise that religion (especially Islam) was the cause of ignorance and monstrosity, not to mention injustice, intolerance. a religious person would say that religion is a faith that guide people into the light, and stands against ignorance?

Well, here's what religion really wants from you:
1- believe in god.
2- never doubt his existence or you shall fry in hell for the rest of eternity.
3- try to convert those who don't believe in god.
4- if you can't convert them, then fight them.
5- spread the word of god all over the world.
6- don't buy from non believers, or sell to them.
7- if you found out that your brother, sister or a relative is a non believer then you should kill him/her
8- read the bible or Quraan till it sticks in your head.
9- brain wash your children and force them to believe in religion.
10- gay men and women should be killed.
11- say good bye to your privacy because God has angels that spy on you 24/7/365.
12- rage wars against other nations that don't believe in your god.
13- donate lots of money to church, or a mosque, so they can build more churches or mosques, and print more bibles or quraans.

Here's what happens when you do nothing of the above:

1- you're no longer bound by an imaginary force that limits your brain activity.
2- you can doubt every thing, which eventually leads you to the absolute truth.
3- you will no longer be a threat to others and you will not cause harm to others who think different from you.
4- commercial relations will be stronger than ever, having an open market between all nations without boycotts, which will enhance the economy.
5- you will have more useful material to read instead of the bible or the Quraan. which will raise your level of intellectuality.
6- your children will grow with the ability to think correctly and not judge people by what they believe in.
7- gay men and women will finely live in peace since their sexual orientation is their own personal business, not yours.
8- you can rest assured that you have a privacy and there is no angels spying on your every thought. so there's no one breathing down your neck (maybe just your boss)
9- there will be world peace, since no one believes in a god that tells them to kill each other in his name.
10- instead of donating your money to a mosque or a church, you can donate your money to build schools, libraries, or universities, or scientific research, which will result in more scientific achievements that will make your life better, and a generation of highly intelligent people. and less poverty, less ignorance, less unemployment.

These are just a few things from the top of my head, imagine just by letting go of your fear of the imaginary god, you'll be making the world one step closer to being a better place to live. try reading the bible or the Quraan from a humanitarian perspective, you'll see that it only revolves around killing and blood shed. why would some one want to be part of community that has no humanity in it? that lives by the motto "believe or else"?
we've all seen what religion done over the past few years from terrorism to war to mass killing, not to mention what was going on in the dark ages from burning, slaying witch-craft. Now we're living in the 21st century and in many nations it's still considered a crime to think or to doubt. how can humanity advance if there are authorities out there that tells us not to think, that brain washes us through the media with lies and deception?

Every day we find religion coming up with new methods to control our lives and our thoughts, which is the real philosophy that stands behind religion, it's a system of control and its what it wants to do, to control the world.

Let the Truth set you Free

2007-01-28T10:10:00.000-08:00

Before i cap this Month, i would like to say a final statement, which should be like the moral of this month, and this month more than any other month has been an eye-opener, it has awaken a more civilized, more ethical person in me that has been buried under layers of blind belief.

However, Even if many Muslims see disrespect towards their religion by these articles and caricatures that i have posted in this blog, i feel the same way towards religion, because it offends my intellectuality, it offends my ethics, and morals, I would never respect some one or a religion that wishes me to eternally burn in hell's fire. for most of my life i have been good to people, i always try to be as helpful and delightful as i possibly can or as much as my circumstances would allow. Now as being an Atheist and not believing in God or in Hell, maybe some Muslims are wondering why do i bother being good? Since i believe that there would be no judgment? Well, it's wrong to do good for the sake of avoiding a delusion called Hell, and purely for the sake of being rewarded with the delusion of a heaven. We have it in us to do good deeds, the sense of right and wrong that motivate us to project the best of us, and to avoid making bad decisions. but why?

Think about it, we must be thinking if there is no God then there is no reward for being good, that's absolutely wrong, there are far more greater rewards, and you really don't need to wait for the day that you die to harvest the fruits of your goodness. You will discover that you will be rewarded almost instantly once you show the goodness of your heart. as for me the reward of being a better person is that i feel good about my self, knowing that i have spared others from my bad doings that i could inflict on them. Eventually it becomes an infection, it turns to a new common-sense, were being good for the sake of being good becomes taken for granted, but this means that it has also become a new foundation, and it is the right foundation that removes fear from our minds. this also opens the door to a new concept of creativity since we're not bound or restricted by blind belief, our only limit becomes our mind's limits.

Women on the other hand can play a bigger role in society, because there is no religion depriving her from her natural right to become an equal partner in our universe, thus allowing her to show her real potential, in many fields. there are many great women who have achieved very much from so little, they didn't have any better conditions that supported them to reach were they stand now, but they made it any way.

What we're standing against here is a system of oppression, a system that wants to not only control our lives, but also to control our thoughts, and to control our free will, it wants us to kill those who don't believe in what it tells us to believe in. Science has given us so much evidence and like ancient gods, science has narrowed the gaps for the lord of the gaps of our time, the very same god who has enslaved our thoughts and our lives and our time for thousands of years. We're no longer living in the old dark ages, we're an advanced society so let's act as ones, and stop causing pain and suffering to others. say NO to your delusions.

And most certainly, no one is paying me to post these articles against Islam. this is only what a brain-washed paranoid would say to redeem him/her self.

Believe it or Else

2007-01-28T09:05:00.000-08:00

A dear friend, and a fellow Atheist sent me these wonderful caricatures by Abdullah Aziz. Hope you will enjoy them as much as we did.

To enlarge, Click on thumbnails bellow:

The Holly Crap

2007-01-22T11:48:00.000-08:00

Recently I have come across some incredible articles during my internet research about Mohammad's Characteristics, it strike me as surprising and disgusting as I read the article and realize how far people around Mohammad worshiped him as the supposed-to-be messenger of god.

Unfortunately the article was written in Arabic; however I will do my best to translate the essence of the article in English.

The article talks about Mohammad's spit, sweat, blood, defecation, urine, and semen.

Spit: Of course as we all may have known, that Mohammad being the prophet of God, therefore his mouth does not contain any sort of germs, or any kind of impurities.

It is mentioned in stories told about him through out his life that his spit was used as means of medicine to cure illnesses and severed body parts.

In one of those stories, a woman came to Mohammad with her son and told him that her son is rebellious and possessed by a demon, so the Mohammad opened the boy's mouth and spat in it, and repeated this sentence three times :"Be gone Enemy of God, I'm the prophet of Allah".

In another story, Mohammad was drinking water, then a man came to him and begged Mohammad to spit in that drink so that he can offer it to his father, may it will purify his heart. So did Mohammad, the man went to his father with the cup of spit in his hand and offered it to his father, were the father asked his son, about the contents of the cup. And the son replied, it contains the spit of Mohammad and it will purify your heart. The father replied: "I rather drink your mother's urine, for it is more pure than that spit".

Sweat: It appears that Mohammad didn't produce sweat like the sweat that humans produced, as we've been told, but his sweat was a holly sweat, that smelled good.

In one story Mohammad was spending the night at Anas's home, while he was sleeping he started to sweat, when Anas's Mother came to him while he was a sleep, and started drying his sweat with a piece of cloth and in to a small bucket. While this was happening, Mohammad suddenly woke up, and asked Anas's mother what she was doing. She answered: "it's so we can use it as a perfume"

Holly Shit: Mohammad was also famous for his Holly Shit, stories about him tell the significance of his digestive system, and about the sweet aroma of his Holly Shit, not only that, it also says that when ever Mohammad went to take a crap, the earth would open up under his ass, and swallow his shit. As you can tell, it's amazing.

what is more amazing, is that most Muslims all over the world are willing to believe all this, but they still don't believe that man has landed on the moon. it is the ignorance that made religious people believe in myths and rubbish, and reject science with all the evidence that it has provided.

A Monster called Religion

2007-01-14T14:54:00.000-08:00

It is interesting how a Muslim lives his/her life, and how much of a narrow minded person do you have to become to live such a life. When you're not allowed to think freely, or to express your self in the form of art, when you're not allowed to appreciate the beautiful things in life, then you must be a person who has truly lost your way, and the natural light that once was lighting your way has dimmed and faded as you got brain washed while growing up.

Religion has blinded us from the obvious truth, now that religion is a monster that says "close your eyes and follow me, if you open your eyes, then you shall burn in hell for the rest of eternity" at that point you can imagine lakes of fire and torment, being damned in hell for all eternity is a hard thing, so I better keep my eyes shut and believe. Well, I've been there and I felt that fear for so long and I kept my eyes closed, till one day I decided to open them and at the moment I opened my eyes, I saw that there was no Monster, and I saw the world in a different color. All that it takes is a little courage.

As long as your eyes are closed there is no possible way that you can see the truth, as long as your eyes are closed there is no possible way that you can know that there is no Monster judging your every thought and sending he's minions to spy on you.

Then the Monster Says: "Who hears the communications of Allah recited to him, then persists proudly as though he had not heard them; so announce to him a painful punishment" The Kneeling Surah, Verse 8

Have you ever had a dream that seemed so real? And when you woke up from that dream you were so grateful that it was just a nightmare? It is the same with Islam, In this Islamic nightmare the Monster keep convincing you that if you wake up, you'll find a painful punishment waiting for you, and because the dream is real as long as you're still in it, you find it hard to believe that you will be safe after you open your eyes and awake from the terrible nightmare. But for how long have you been having this bad dream, have you ever wondered how the world would look like if you just open your eyes for one second?

Then you hear the Monster's voice again saying: "And Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and on the day when the hour shall come to pass, on that day shall they perish who say false things" The Kneeling Surah, Verse 27

At this point you're trying harder not to open your eyes, but deep down in your mind you hear a faint voice telling you to open your eyes, you try to ignore that voice, but the faint voice keep echoing in your mind and insists that you open your eyes, now you're in a struggle between the faint voice and the Monster that is telling you to stay in it's Nightmare. But you can't ignore the faint voice because the more you think of it, the louder it gets, till it becomes loud enough that you no longer hear the Monster, you feel a bit relieved now that you can't hear the scary monster's voice, and the fear is gone, so you finely decide to open your eyes, at the first moment of opening there is an over whelming bright light that makes it in to your eye, and it's too much for you to take, because you've been in the darkness for too long, you rub your eyes, but soon your eyes adjust to the bright light and every thing look clear to you, now you see the true colors of life, and the best part is, there is no Monster, and there is lakes of fire, there is no torment, so you release a sigh of relief because now you're enlightened, and you have killed the Monster called Religion.

After Islam

2007-01-09T19:54:00.000-08:00

Men and women in Islam:

The great unmentionable evil at the center of our
culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age
text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human
religions have evolved - Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally,
patriarchal - God is the Omnipotent Father - hence
the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those
countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates

Gore Vidal

It is safe to say that religion in general was designed to best serve men's best interests, knowing that the concept of a supreme entity was at the beginning of mankind nothing more than a question mark over what human's couldn't grasp and comprehend from natural phenomenon to vast yet unexplained environment that surrounded them, such as the sun the moon the stars, ignorance being the common theme of those dark and old ages, when humans thought the earth was flat, they started to imagine superior entities that hold a cataclysmic power that can either reform their quality of life and bless them with more food when they go out to hunt or farm, or punish them for their sins.

Of course, at those ages it was men who did most of the out door activities, so they were considered the providers of food and so forth, therefore claiming their right to become leaders of every thing else, and being at the top of the food chain. It was the very same ego that made men conceive of such an entity, the idea of a God has been present since the beginning of time, and one God failed after another as science proved that such being has no room in our universe

In an Arab country, only a man would have the courage to alert the most desperate and the ignorant about the existence of a God that gave that very same person the burden of delivering his message to those who seek refuge from the dark ages and all the injustice and intolerance that comes with it. So as he progressed with his revelations about his newly conceived God, he told the desperate ones exactly what they needed to hear from a savior.

Now taking that in to account, I believe that when Mohammad came up with laws, and limits for his new religion he made those laws to best serve his gender, and yet to preserve a balance that would not create conflict, therefore Mohammad had given men the right to claim higher and sensitive positions in the government, the kind of positions that would give men a stronger leadership mainly over countries, armies, estate, fortune, and women and so on. The same principle has been adopted by prophets even before Mohammad.

"And if you fear that you cannot act equitably towards orphans, then marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four; but if you fear that you will not do justice (between them), then (marry) only one or what your right hands possess; this is more proper, that you may not deviate from the right course".

Women Sura, Verse 3.

In the Women Sura Above, Mohammad claims that God has given women their rights, therefore he allows men to marry up to 4 women at the same time or in total, but compared to our modern age, in most European nations and in the United States of America it's against the law to marry more than one woman, simply because a man would be disrespecting a woman by seeing her as his sexual pleasure provider or a slave rather than a human being with an individual personality with equal rights as her fellow man. Even in third world nations Muslim women who had their fare share of education do not approve of getting married to a man who is already married because they find it disrespectful to them, If it's the word of God that allows a man to marry up to 4 women at the same time, then why do most women disapprove it?,

In one verse God says that men should treat women as equal partners, and in another verse he says that men should have leadership over women, the contradiction is perfectly obvious. If we take a good look at the time scales of human history right from the Stone Age to the modern age, we can see the transitioning of women's role in society. At the time when muscle power ruled, women were over powered and enslaved by men. Simply because men had more muscle power, as time progressed and humans became more intelligent man started to recognize a woman's potential, and up to this date women are discovered to be as equally intelligent as man.

It is safe to say that Mohammad failed to see the progressing of woman's intellectual power, and he kept her as a less equal partner to men, depriving her from reaching high ranks in society this reaching her full potential, prioritizing her duties to her home, and obligating her to obey her husband at all times, for example, a wife can't visit her father even if he's in his death bed, unless her husband permits her. The only logical explanation to this is, that times were different when Mohammad claimed his prophecy, and women at that time didn't play a large role in their society as they do now a days.

Then again in another verse from the Holly Qura'an says:

"Allah enjoins you concerning your children: the male shall have the equal of the portion of two females; then if they are more than two females, they shall have two-thirds of what the deceased has left".

Women Sura, Verse 11

I don't think there is much to explain as the verse very simply explains it self, Now I do believe that Mohammad preached about women being an equal to men, the question is, Then why doesn't he permit a woman to have an equal share as a man would?

Well, it doesn't require a rocket scientist to figure out that there has been injustice and sexual discrimination committed here. Ask your self this: "If a god did really exist, who claims to give women their rights and claims that women are equal to men and should have the same rights given to men, would that same god give a woman half of what man gets from an inheritance rather than giving her full share?"

It gets even uglier now as you read the following verse that contradicts with the whole concept that Islam claims to be built on (which equal rights between men and women):

"Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great".

Women Sura Verse 34
Now logic flies right out of the window, and it appears that God is not making any sense, one minute he's saying that women are equal to men, now he's saying that he created men as superior to women, or let me put that as god would put it "because Allah has made some of them to excel others" , to top it all off, God gave man permission to beat and abuse his wife “and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them” I don’t have Ph.D. in any field of social studies, but i do know that i doesn’t take a Ph.D. to know that this is the way to treat a slave, a lot of men get restraining orders and go to jail for years for abusing their wives, But God permits it

When Muslim men go to heaven, they have all the beautiful women that even their wildest imagination can't imagine their beauty, in the other hand, the Qura'an never mentions what's in store for a Muslim woman when she's in heaven. Is it because God believes that women shouldn't know what awaits them in the other life? Or is it simply because God doesn't think it's that important?

Despite all this, I can't get over one thought that keeps ringing in my mind which is; Why does god always refer to him self as "He"? Is he male? Let's look at this in a good logical way. Supposing that god is male, that means that he has a male's reproductive organs. Just to explain what I'm trying to say here, I want you to read the following verse:

"Say: He, Allah, is One (1) Allah is He on Whom all depend (2) He begets not, nor is He begotten (3) And none is like Him (4)"

The Unity Sura Verses 1, 2, 3, and 4

In this verse God claims that he wasn't given birth nor did he have given birth. So now if God is male, and he has a male's reproductive organs, then they would be useless because there would be no female of his kind to have a sexual intercourse with, and it purely makes no sense because he just said in his Qura'an as illustrated in the previous verse that he is "One", "and none is like Him". So what is the point of being a male if you can't perform a male's natural role?

Let's just face the simple and crystal clear facts, it was not God who created man in his image, it was man who created God in his own image. Therefore man puts all his attributes in to his god, because men are always struggling for more power, most men wish to be Gods so it is very typical that man would imagine a god in his image.

In third world nations a man expresses his manhood through abusing women and displaying his strength and leadership to overpower and enslave women and keep them obedient to his wishes thus he becomes a mini God, or at least views him self as so. It is very traditional that men are far more superior to women in the Arab world, the less man abuses women, the more he feels like a woman.

Do we really need a God to tell us that women should be treated equally? When did humanity lose track of the sense of right or wrong, justice or injustice towards our equal partners "women"?

I believe that we should put our highly evolved brain in to good use, instead of wasting our time on an imaginary God, we should spend more time harmonizing the connection between men ad women, without pointing out at each other's differences, because there is no such thing as a superior sex, both genders can benefit from each other's knowledge and experience if both genders given equal opportunities to reach a higher potential.

Before Islam

2007-01-09T19:39:00.000-08:00

The Common Theme:

The common theme of that age was a sad image; More than 1465 years ago, there was a nation that can only be described by its ignorance, greed, and its extreme lack of justice. Such nation was overfilled with heartless savage and barbarians who would not hesitate to kill the weak and powerless, those who couldn't help them selves found no one to help them against the injustice that took place or to simply seek refuge at that time.

You would find crimes every day, the powerful who steels from the weak, the rich taking from the poor, not to mention the every day's injustice in every day life at the time.

If you were living in a time like that, weak, and helpless, wouldn't you wish for a savior to appear from the heavens and save you from your misery?

It was commonly known to be a disgrace for a father to have a daughter, therefore a woman would be buried a live with her new-born child if she gives birth to a girl. Women were treated like slaves and had no opinion of their own as we still witness till our day in most Arab countries, they were presented as gifts to seal a good business deal, and they were mainly for recreational purposes only.

Before Mohammad came up with the concept of Islam, he was known in his community as the honest man, this was due to his fare trade with incoming and out going caravans that brought goods from and to Hijaz (which is Saudi Arabia now).

Even when Mohammad was well known for his honesty and fare trade, and even if he claims to have given women their rights, he wasn't being completely honest. Still one thing is true, Mohammad did preach about Women rights, yet he him self didn't abide by his teaching. Before the conceiving of Islam many know that Mohammad had 11 spouses, one of them was 6 years of age at engagement, and was 9 years of age at marriage, her name was A'esha. Now, of all people who preach about right and wrong, Mohammad should know better that it is not in A'esha's best interest to be married in such a young age, if he committed such action in our days, he would've been thrown in jail as a pedophile.

Yet we still hear the sheikhs, and Imams trying to justify Mohammad's action by twisting and turning facts, just like one sheikh would say: "that you can't compare the sense of right and wrong in our days, with sense of right and wrong Mohammad's days", which also creates a contradiction, because Mohammad also said that: "Islam is a religion for every time and place" therefore leaving no chance to false justifications, it can only mean that what was wrong then is still wrong now, and vise versa.