“He
was a devout atheist. He strongly believed: There is no God.”
(Stefan
Fleischer, 1938, pensioner, former organizer of a major bank, source:
More
factual instead, the Knaurs Root Dictionary: “Atheism – negation
of God's existence”.
The
intelligent human knows about the limits of all knowings, the
faithful effortlessly tears down these limits. – And doesn't even
understand the sense of this sentence.
But
this is the mystery of faith, of non-understanding, of not knowing.
How
should there be “devout atheists” as people who believe that
there is no God? On such an assumption the religiously prejudiced
language already is going mad. Any non-existing become fact just by
my doubts about it?
How
could one be opposed to “nothing” (= God)?
Or,
by just “believing” in dragons with seven heads, they are
existent?
Because
I am speaking about them?
The
really religion-free human is not concerned with any God, but he is
penetratingly confronted with worshipers who are misusing public
life by impertinent arrogant sense of mission and who are creating
the religious chaos of the world.
An
error-free speech, for example, is meaning outright “free from
mistakes”.
Freedom
of religion, according to religious imaginations, does not
mutate into “freedom from religion” but into plenty of
most different, but on the same level, religions, away from logic and
causality.
“God”
means a smorgasbord of regional figments that match with their
getaway from the knowing about reality, a getaway that is caused by
the common sufferings of all people, rooted in their mortality.
Religious
teachings arise from those dilemmas, each predominantly claiming to
the one and only truth, leading different thinking people, by
inevitably overwhelming arguments, right away into the hereafter of
the eternal spiritual illumination or to the deserved torments.
“Atheism”
in no way is such a related teaching. The human freedom from religion
doesn't command any considerable organization and thus is a losing
preposition against ideologies, not at least because of some
religious renegade but totalitarian doctrines, as well, that gladly
call themselves “atheistic” without understanding at all how they
are just supporting their cruel ridiculousness.
A
prophetic eccentric invited to admire and adore his singing and
dancing stocks. Little by little many followed him, the less
uninterested ones staying apart were taunted as believing skeptics.
Sic.
The
eccentric declared his faith a reason of state, as obligatory moral
and ethics and soon he crusaded for his predominance against the
respective prophets of the eternally illuminated religions of
mysterious mountains, lakes, rivers, of respectable trees, woods, of
holy cows, adored stars, hallucinated ghosts, demons, angles, devils,
of corrupt crowds of gods, hermaphroditic creatures, saints, of
virgin births and reincarnations up to the compressing delusion of
the one and only term of God that is disproving itself by provincial
diversity and is subject to fashionable epochs, far away from any
infinity and eternal present.
The
religion-free human, nevertheless, is contenting himself with the one
modest but accountable existence of thinking, based on objective
physical laws and empathetic humanity.
Both
of these backgrounds for a dignified life cannot be given by religion
and its aloof consequences. It is,over the whole globe,
fatalistically dividing and not capable of peace.
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