Washing of the Brain.

Today I will rant on about probably the major problem atheists have with religion. Indoctrination. Particularly the religious doctrinarian of children. Indoctrination basically brain washing. I have wondered about this for a while, a few weeks ago I was in my class studying social issues and the topic of sexism came up. Anyway my teacher was pointing out all the sexist organisations and she mentioned the church, I suddenly felt the need to speak up and say religion was not a sexist institution, than I thought about it for a second. I am an atheist and I had what was basically a non voluntary reaction to insulting the church, which is something I do all the time. Another example of this was a few days ago I read something about a church being burned down on purpose. This seemed like a hateful action until I realised that I would not care so much if it was someone’s house burned down. I mean the church has money. It could easily be rebuilt. Now I don’t know why I thought these things. I know that if the victim had been someone non religious I wouldn’t have been so bothered about it. I think this may be cultural in nature. I know in Australia religion is compared to race, sexuality and gender. So there may even be a cultural aspect to respecting religion that I was until recently unaware of.

Now a small cultural consideration isn’t too bad if it is only about respecting people. What is bad is people who are completely obsessive, violent and stupid about their religion. I am talking about the people who run plains into buildings, I am talking about the people who bomb abortion clinics, I am talking about those that would stop the pursuit of knowledge simply because it did not correspond with their fairy tale!  Think about it logically, would your god be okay with the suffering of people in his (because it couldn’t possibly be a she) name. If not than rethink what you are doing. If so than rethink your commitment to this god.

One of the worst things religion can do is indoctrinate children. To fill a person’s head with lies while they are still vulnerable and not yet mature enough to think about them. To tell them they are going to burn in hell if they don’t do as they are told. To tell them they are going to be burned in hell if they ask questions about what you are teaching them. To tell them certain people don’t deserve rights because of brief sentences in a 2000 year old book!

To all the religious parents out there. I will conclude with this. If your religion is right than your child will follow it because it is correct. So teach them about all religions so than your child will follow one because they want to. Not because they feel obliged to. If you feel the need to scare your child into following your religious views, ask yourself. Does my child believe through his or her own will or because I brainwashed her or him?

here are a few links that god me thinking about this issue
.http://www.youtube.com/user/kidsinministry#p/u/54/sNIJGLeI0w0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fq4wZ_lQjc&feature
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT3d5RFNATA&feature=related

OFFENDING EVERY RELIGION

In this blog I am going to do something I thought of that sounded like heaps of fun. I am going to attempt to offend every religion possible in the limited time I currently have. I have always thought religion is stupid but I think it’s time I gave some reasons as to why I think specific religions in particular are stupid. If you like this please comment below. If you don’t like this i REALLY want you to comment, I love to argue.  In the interest of fair play i will also have a go at atheism and agnostics .

Christianity.

            I think I will start with one of the most criticised religions in western culture. The good old Christians.  Okay this religion is stupid because of the core belief. A god cannot forgive anyone because he is an asshole.  But he still wants to get people into heaven (because he ‘loves’ you) so instead of just forgiving people who rape, kill, torture or steel he decides to go about it a different way. He sends his own son down to earth, than has his own son tortured to pay for the sin of everyone else.  Than has his son killed and brought back to life three days later.  Does none of the billion Christians see a problem with this? Your god is so crazy that he sees someone who is lesser than him do something that he does not approve of so he tortures his child! Imagine is a human parent did this. Let’s say you were that parent and you saw a bug steal a piece of food from the table. Now you don’t like this, but you can’t forgive the bug. So you turn to your child and stab him! No doubt we are about bugs compared to god’s power. Would you be okay with doing this just to forgive the bug? Would you allow your child to suffer for someone else’s doing. Oh and one more thing about your stupid ideas. The unforgivable sin, if I say I don’t believe in god and that god is mean I am going to hell. But if I rape a child than kill him and have sex with his dead body. I can be forgiven.  Your god is shallow and frankly I think Hell would be a much less violent place than heaven.

                        Jews

            Okay. I know shit has happened to you guys. And i know that you don’t deserve it. But STOP using that as an excuse to explain some stupid behaviour. And STOP calling anyone who criticizes your religion or Israel’s politics anti semantic when they aren’t talking about your race at all!

                        Islam

            Guys. Lighten the fuck up! You have pulled some terrible crap in recent times. Now i am not saying that all Muslims have. But Arabic states are fucking crazy with their laws. For example a pastor burned a copy of the Koran. Many UN workers were killed in mass riots over this. The UN workers would never approve of that action anyway. And stop calling yourself a race. It is not racist to attack Islam. Islam is an idea not a race. Just like it isn’t racist to attack the idea of capitalism. Oh right, draw Mohammed day is here to stay so stop freaking out over it. And one last thing STOP OPPRESING WOMEN

                        Hinduism

            Hello to the many Hindus of the world. Okay first of all. Decide on what you believe. There is so much crap out there. Some people say you are agnostic, some say atheist, some say you believe in one god and some say you believe in many. MAKE UP YOUR MIND . but i can tell you this. The idea of karma is stupid. Do good people can universally rewarded. NO, to bad people can universally punished, NO. So the next time you see someone suffering maybe you shouldn’t assume its because they are evil. Maybe you should find out!

                        Buddhism

            Now I kind of like the idea of peace that you guys seem to believe in.  But please stop claiming to be a religion. You are a life style. There is a difference.  

Jehovah’s witnesses

Okay you guys are practically a cult. Let your members have some damn freedom. And stop knocking on our doors. I already know your religion is stupid I don’t need you at my door proving my point. Oh and if someone wants to marry a non believer that’s okay!

                        Scientology

            Do you guys really think that this is real? The person who made this religion was a science fiction writer and you wonder why your core stories involve aliens and space ships! Seriously this is something i expect to find on star gate. Remember what Elrond Hubbard your maker said. “If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.”

                        Astrology

            IT’S A SCAM. But people believe it. Somehow the stars position at your birth affects your personality.  Did you know stars move? So there positions change over time. A Scorpio a billion years from now would probably be a different star sign. Oh right and if you think that there personality tests are accurate. Think again. It uses something called the barmen effect. This is basically whenever someone hears a belief enough description about themselves they will believe it.  I myself have proved this by giving 20 people the same horoscope description.  Over 80% said that it matched them even tho I made it up and they were all born on different days.

                        Wicca

            Okay. I know it may seem nice saying you’re a witch, but you are not. There is no such thing as magic so please stop trying to make this crap into another religion that we do not need. I know it makes you feel like an individual but seriously... witchcraft?

                        Agnostics

            STOP SITTING ON THE FENCE. This issue of religion and god is an important one. It is how our society and the population of the world views the entire universe. You cant just stay nutral on an issue like that!

                        Atheists

            Stop resisting organisation people! Most of the time atheists don’t want to organise because of more than just religion. Organising wont make us like them. People organise to form political parties, people organise to go out to dinner and people organise to play video games! You wouldn’t call any of these a religion.

            Well that is the 1^st of I hope many attempts to offend every religion. I hope you enjoyed this. If you didn’t too bad. It’s my blog ill say what I want.

UPDATE****

when i said Arabic state i meant Islamic state. i apologize to any i have offended

Violence

                Our society is split in two. We have one side, usually the intellectual. That says that violence is never the answer. Than we have another who think it a perfectly normal tool to use in both politics and everyday life. I think both of these points of view are stupid.

                The whole idea that violence is never the answer is ignorant in itself. While i agree that it should be an absolute last resort. I disagree that it should never be used. For example. In world war 2 we have a crazy racist imperialist leader in charge of one of the biggest armies in the world and he intended to use this army to expand his ideas of racial profiling all throughout the world wether the inhabitants of that world liked it or not. Do you really think that none violence would have convinced him to stop. if the oppressed Jewish people started to march on Berlin in place of Washington. Would Hitler have realised there oppression and changed his policies. NO. We had only one solution in that situation. And it was war.

                The idea that violence is a natural and useful and acceptable tool is equally stupid.  While it can be useful for individual means. It is not useful for the means of a society. If a societies death count raises above its birth count that society is in a state of decline. Violence can cause this state of decline. It can also cause much suffering that the people in that society would not want to live in it anymore and would leave thus putting it in decline.

                So in closing. Violence can be used to achieve certain goals. But. It should only be used as an absolute last resort and only if it is absolutely necessary.

BOAT PEOPLE

One of Australia’s major issues at the moment is illegal immigrants or ' boat people' as they have been named by the media. I have a few thoughts on this. But they are relativity easy to say so this will be a short blog entry.

1

its not a big deal! Compared to other countries Australia gets little to no refugees. I mean for example Australia got a total of 27536 illegal immigrants from 1976 to 2010. America has a total of 6,650,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico alone living in the US in 2009, so yeah we really don’t have much of a problem.

2

it can cost up to $70,000 to get a visa here. Do most people have that cash here, NO. would most people who are fleeing war hatred and persecution have that money, NO!

3

we should be flattered that people want to come to our island country. This is a good thing. Not only does it help strengthen our multicultural society that we boast about. It also means that we are a successful and prosperous country, the way I see it if people stop coming here that’s when it has all gone to hell.

So in conclusion cut them some slack people!