Disclaimer; If you are one of the many credulous religious persons who believe a MESSIAH resurrected from the death and that a prophet who stayed in a cave was visited by angels—and yet do not want these hysterical beliefs questioned under the microscope of reason, then do not read this article because you might find it OFFENSIVE.
Religion is violent, irrational, makes absurd claims which it hates to be challenged, allied to racism, tribalism, bigotry, glorifies ignorance and invests heavily in the oppression of women and continues to terrorize children—and I am sure I have not mentioned its hostility to free inquiry.
For people like me, the world would be much better if we begin to question the many extraordinary religious claims which of course it offers no extraordinary evidence for…
Christians are the most difficult people to debate—not because they have plausible and persuading arguments, but because most of them have no arguments at all and mostly, are ignorant when it comes to their own beliefs.
I took time out some years back to re-evaluate by sense of belonging and why I was a Christian. And like most people, I was a Christian not because I thought I knew for sure the truth and believed the collected Bible stories were divine given but because my mother was a Christian and I was born into Christianity.
Therefore when I came across the argument that, if I was born in Saudi Arabia, there was a high probability of almost 99% that I would have been a Muslim, I realized I belong to Christianity not by choice or by the fact that it is the truth but by either heritage or by my birth circumstance.
Whenever I meet someone from Iraq, I assume by default the person is a Muslim and most times, I am right about this. Our religion is heavily determined by our place of birth, nothing more than that…
Therefore, if your parents are Muslims, there is a high probability that you would be reading this as a Muslim. Of course some people smartly grow to find their own direction just as I have done, but in many instances, this becomes impossible, especially if you live in a country where the punishment for apostasy is death.
How do you feel as a religious person to know that in about 20 countries, changing your religion is a crime, punishable by death in some of these countries?
Anyway, apart from such human punishments that have been put in place to protect certain religions and myths being paraded as truth, there is a heavenly punishment of eternal hell fire, awaiting all sinners—including believers and non believers.
I cannot count the number of times people have told me I am heading straight to hell because I do not believe in the God hypothesis or do not hold religion sacred, just as they do—and surely, religion has no sacred status in the hearts of those who live by reason and not superstition or myth. Religion must be tolerated with the same skepticism and be subjected to equal criticism as politics, philosophy or science—guided by reason.
Interestingly, it seems I would not be heading to his hell that many have put me to alone—and remember the Church of England somewhat has announced that there is no HELL anywhere. But for those holding unto this dogma, hell is real and it awaits all sinners, especially me…
I will be heading to hell with a bunch of believers including you because you are just as sinful as I am and since there is no hierarchy of sins in the sight of God, my non-belief which will fetch me that hell fire is equal to the below sins, which most Christians live by…
Before I talk about the sins which will land most of my readers in HELL, let me ask this; am I the only person who finds it so absurd that, a just God will throw people into hell fire for the sins they were gifted with? How on earth should I be thrown into hell fire for the sins of Adams and Eve, some fictional losers I do not have any bloodline with?