The ugliness called atheism, veiled or otherwise

Nowadays one can get ridiculed on the internet for stating one’s religious belief or testifying why one believes in God. Religions have been blamed for many atrocities committed in the past or recently. Or is it?

Atrocities are usually committed against the weaker party, the reason is simple that weaker party is not expected to be able to retaliate proportionally to the atrocities committed against them. In simple words weaker party is defenseless. Atrocities are also easily committed when there are segregation that differentiates between people. Beforehand I already mentioned weaker party and that is one general segregation. In practice this segregation is usually based on race or skin color, religious belief, gender, political belief, statehood and basically anything that men can make up to create an impression of being different.

The reason is simple. When you differentiate people or a group of people you can then start to dehumanize them, in effect diminishing the resistance of your own group to commit atrocities by desensitizing them(making them less empathic or less sympathetic) of the other. This is done by highlighting the difference and disseminating false information to broaden the gap of empathy. Lies is what ordinary people call it or propaganda to those familiar with it.

Now there’s a general acceptance that religious people are usually good people. The reason is simply because religious people profess to honor a God which they claim or to be exact their scriptures claim to be holy(without fault/sin). Thus the aspirations of religious people is to be holy(good) as the God whom they claim to worship. Now, there’s one thing people forget that genuine religious beliefs are based on faith(read belief) and no one can really measure anyone’s faith or whether it is pure or otherwise. What I am saying is one can be religious yet devoid of FAITH. This is possible since being religious is different than being spiritual. The first may not include the latter and the latter may not include the first. Hence I am saying it is possible to be religious yet an atheist in its core. On the other hand I cannot say that one can be spiritual while being an atheist because such person will simply be misguided and never be a spiritual person though one may think of himself  just about anything or the contrary.

So yes atrocities can be done in the name of religion or God but it doesn’t mean it is an ACT of GOD or in accordance to the teaching. Now what most atheists never mention is that the atrocities committed by atheists(openly atheists or otherwise) are far more severe and greater in number. Perhaps I’m not being exactly accurate here as what I am saying is basically all atrocities are done by atheists despite whatever differentiation that they used(religion, race, political belief, etc).

Thus the world has seen a religious murderer, an irreligious murderer, a religious rapist or an irreligious rapist. Thus Lee Kuan Yew can convince MANY religious people to support whatever his pursuits despite them being a clear violation to ethic, moral and law(both human and God). of course it goes without saying that such a religious people CANNOT POSSIBLY honor God nor can they be honored by God and HAVE NO CHANCE to know God. But I guess many people are being religious for MANY other reasons THAN ETERNAL SALVATION. What is clear is no one can live their lives with the thought of them as evil people. That is simply not possible because the burden of conscience lays heavily on people. Thus people like Lee Kuan Yew are going to make excuses to justify their atrocities or their excesses. They will even for the most part blame the victims themselves. They will victimize their victims again and again because their conscience doesn’t tolerate duality. In other words these people, these atheists will try to fool themselves and coerce their victims until the picture is one that conforms to whatever twisted reasoning that these people may have made up in place of their guilt and remorse. It’s like if you lie often and long enough you can expect to start believing it yourselves in time. Talk about crazy people huh. In some parts of the world that is how they write history. Unwise and even NUTS! And I wouldn’t be surprised that is how they write it too in Singapore.