The manmade construct of religion has, since the dawn of time, seen man turning himself into a martyr in pursuit of repentance from the all-knowing, ever-elusive ‘God.’
Like an author killing the protagonist in her novel, only to then start crying over the injustice of them no longer being alive, it’s nonsensical that man has spent millennia living in fear of the very thing that doesn’t exist outside of his mind…
God is an atheist who no longer believes in himself
The real injustice though is that, through fearmongering, millions upon millions of people around the world have had their minds infected by such spiel to the extent that they are killing each other in the name of fictional characters.
Whole families disown their children who come out as gay, as though to love someone of the same sex is a bigger ‘sin’ than to order the extermination of whole countries purely because their inhabitants align themselves to a different fairytale (sorry, religion)…
Pledging their allegiance to an institution whose sole purpose is to lie and deceive, religion packages control and oppression up with a pretty bow and sells it as ‘repentance.’
So much conflict has been triggered by man’s ego because God forbid (pardon the pun) that there is something out there that he doesn’t understand…
Yes, we have been told by all the greatest scientists in the world that there are some things, including all the questions that religion attempts to answer, that simply lie beyond human comprehension and therefore, try as we might, we will never understand, but I haven’t tried yet. Watch ME try…
(And watch me claim the lives of several hundred innocent civilians along the way)…
There’s a reason why the world is becoming more liberal now, and the answer can be found amidst stacks of statistics from the Office for National Statistics surrounding secularisation.
The reason?
Because religion has far less of an impact on society in 2024 than it did even as little as a decade ago…
In 2021, 46.2% of people identified themselves as Christian, compared with 59.3% of the population in the 2011 census.
Feeling freer, (no longer fearing being zapped down by the big man in the sky for being a man who wears lipstick), and safer, to live their lives as their authentic selves, people are exploring themselves outside of binaries and scripture to find who they really are.
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