Atheism: Hell is No Longer a Threat

Throughout the history of mankind, we have always wanted to understand the mysteries around us of this beautiful world. Before the rise of science, the human mind defaulted to crediting everything to one sort of god or another. This reliance on some mysterious, supernatural entity was the norm for countless centuries of human history.

As of late though, more and more people are no longer accepting this as an answer. We are turning to various forms of science to understand our world. In the process of learning, we've found evidence of processes far more intriguing than anything religion could explain. (If someone needs support of the rise in the numbers of non-believers, visit this page from NPR, or this NBC affiliate. Here's one more.)

Where we once believed our planet to be the center of the universe, astronomy shows us we're really less than a speck of space dust, compared to the entire cosmos. Where we once held onto the belief that goodness only flows from some spiritual deity, biology now shows the human organism has an innate goodness - and that it is essential to the survival of our species.

Where once, any particular religious leader was the highest authority in any given region of the world, archeology proves mankind has had many competing gods. Even today, among any particular religion's followers, there is division. Christianity is credited with 34,000 denominations throughout history. Islam has 72 sects. Religion has - if nothing else - brought about more division than any other factor in history.

Religion held its power over the individual human mind by the power of fear, more than any other factor. In spite of attempted arguments to the contrary, love existed among all belief systems, so nobody's god can lay claim to it exclusively. No, it was a fear of eternal torment in hell which was used to gain followers. Too often, those who refused still were tortured and/or slaughtered as "heretics" or "infidels" - depending on which religion's terminology a person used.

But the various religious leaders are losing their power to kill non-believers, and they are powerless to stop the trend. Daily, more people around the world are coming to realize slaughtering their own is wrong.

For the most part, Christianity lost its carte blanche pass centuries ago, although there still remain pockets of religious persecution by Christians. Islam is losing its power before our very eyes. Ridiculous "honor killings" are prosecuted as the crimes which they are. This is good.

While each of the world's religious leaders is busy decrying others for not being more like them, we atheists notice you all sound the same to us - divisive, superstitious and lacking a philosophical leg to stand on. The threats of hell from any of you sound like the threats of hell from all of you - and we accept none of it from any of you. We've all come to learn that for all of us to survive, only love will work. As was once so eloquently stated anonymously, "Seeing now that the Bible was so wrong about where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going?"

Some day, as our future generations look through our history, they'll see that humanity finally woke up to the beautiful reality surrounding us all. They'll see the myths of an afterlife were what kept primitive man back for as long as it did. They'll be able to pinpoint the time wherein we finally realized we're all just people - and tribalism, racism and religions were just myths. They'll see we finally realized we need each other and nobody was terrorized into obeying any superstition.

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Well, since Senator David Jabi is on to me.

Well it's over. I went on ahead and let Mr Asshat Iyke know what I've been doing, and sent him the following invite here.

Not that these sorts of assheads will even be grown up enough to respond here. But hell, I'm offering them a chance to #plan #better. #Still #Winning better than Charlie Sheen, the Vatican warlock assassin with the boogers of a seven-year-old. It was fun while it lasted.

“Hi.

I met you in some spam speed-dating session, and want to know if you'd like to read a little blog bout a man named Jed.

The poor mountaineer barely kept a family fed.

Then one day, he was sorting through his spam

Then up come a Nigerian email scam.

our blog exchange origin, the rest of our story plays out in subsequent posts.

You have been a joy of an asshat for me and mine. Heck, you brought me four new readers. That's how interesting you are.

I hope you enjoy. I hope you comment.

-Dad Anus”

Senator David Jabi may be on to me – An ongoing adventure with a Nigerian email scammer

Senator David Jabi, or as I like to call him, Iyke Okafor seems unwilling to communicate with me further. As far as I can tell anyway. The plan was initially to let him respond to my insistence that he provide a mailing address, and then give him the standard Nigerian pressure move, in the worst of scammer style.
I might have gone too far, and revealed myself as being on to him/them. I guess they'll just go back to sending me all of the other bs crap like normal. They're so imaginative. I'm gonna miss them.

I wonder if i should invite him to read this blog. Let him reply. You know? What would you, the reader, like?

This is an ongoing exchange which began with this.