| When someone sees a rainbow, do they say, "I | | | | Religion is ignorance. It makes spirits to explain |
| am seeing a physical reaction, that can be | | | | phenomenon and then burns those who disagree |
| produced in laboratories with the right conditions," | | | | with the spirits -- the ghosts, the magic, the |
| or do they say, "I am seeing the omen from god, | | | | supernatural, the gods, the daemons, the sucubi, |
| that the world will not be flooded."? When | | | | the incubi, the serpents, the devils. Men of science |
| someone sees fire, do they say, "I am seeing the | | | | will not have this crutch of superstition and |
| gift of Prometheus," or do they say, "I am seeing | | | | dogma. If you believe that the rainbow is a |
| the vibration of atoms."? The question here is: is | | | | physical reaction that can be produced in a |
| this person irreligious or religious, scientific or | | | | laboratory, then you have come one step ahead |
| un-scientific? | | | | of your ancestors. If you believe that the rainbow |
| Thousands of years ago, our ancestors could not | | | | is an actual, living sign of god, then you are looking |
| explain these things. What is fire? What is the | | | | to the past, of the times when men were |
| sky? How did we get here? They became | | | | barbarians and uncivilized in every respect. |
| ignorant in their claims and created gods and | | | | I understand that I am placing this message on a |
| spirits to answer their questions. "How did we get | | | | Bulletin Board that is largely Christian. In the same |
| here? God made humans from the dust." -- | | | | way that Galileo asked of the Inquisition, I only |
| "Where does lightning come from? Lightning is | | | | ask that everyone keep an open mind. Magellan |
| Allah trying to strike and kill people." -- "Where | | | | proved that the Bible and that Christianity were |
| does wind come from? The god Purusa blew the | | | | both fallible. (Isaiah 40:22 clearly calls the world a |
| wind out of his mouth." -- "Why does the Sun go | | | | circle a circle is flat -- a sphere is round.) By what |
| across the sky? The god Apollo pulls it across on | | | | construct were men and women asked to believe |
| his chariot." | | | | in these dogmas? What linked believer to belief of |
| So, you see, man formed his ignorance and | | | | religion? The answer is faith. By faith people |
| conjured ghosts to his aid. Tyranny and vice | | | | believed the world was flat, that the rainbow was |
| would reign over the numerous theocracies that | | | | a sign of god, that fire was brought to us by the |
| developed over the globe. Galileo would question | | | | god Prometheus! |
| what the religious men claimed as would Giordano | | | | But religion provides no real answers. It will |
| Bruno who gave his life for his beliefs, burned at | | | | excuse the existence of the Universe with "God |
| the stake for questioning authority. Magellan's | | | | made it, because everything must be made." If |
| voyage would make it all the way around the | | | | this is true, then who made god? It would be |
| world. These men proved incalculable times that | | | | much simpler to say that no god made us, than |
| the church, the Bible, and religion is indeed fallible! | | | | to postulate that one god made the Universe, and |
| Lightning is not the work of Allah -- it is the work | | | | then one god made him, and then a god to him, |
| of positive and negative electrons. There are | | | | assigning an infinite number of gods, all creating |
| occurences in this Universe and they are natural | | | | each other. |
| and explainable. | | | | |