Free Range Luxury Gay Space Anarcho-Atheism

I consider a certain kind of atheist.

It’s free range because any idiot can profess it.

It’s luxury, because it’s usually found amongst people who have the luxury to practice it. This luxury doesn’t only refer to wealth, it also refers to intellect and personality.

It’s gay, because there’s nothing gayer than having your entire identity revolve around your lack of belief in God.

It’s space, because it can be quite empty.

It’s anarcho-atheism because it rejects order and births societal anarchy.

As a young person seeking out the truths of the universe, atheism is possibly the first truth you encounter. When you encounter it, it seems so obvious. So clear. So understandable. You really cannot believe you once indulged in the rituals of prayer, fasting, and casting out demons.

You look at the people who indulge in those rituals as stupid idiots who are blinded by indoctrination. You even take a cursory interest in philosophy and history. You can now tell Christians about the horrible history of their religion (the crusades!). You can now inform them that Protestantism was actually the brain child of a king who just wanted to fuck another woman.

All in all, it’s a magnificent eye opener. The world appears in vivid colors, and things, hitherto unclear to you, become obvious; the pastor who’s really a fraud and wears a garment of mischief; the choir master who’s actually a pedophile; and the youth pastors who love getting nudes from underage church members.

In some ways, new atheists experience the world in the same manner that new converts experience it. As a new convert, especially to Christianity, you experience a change in behavior. The same goes for the new atheist.

The new Christian starts to speak in tongues, while the new atheists starts to speak in fallacies and logical proofs. The new Christian says scientifically illiterate things like “the world was created in six days”. The new atheist says scientifically illiterate things like “yes, what do you mean something can’t come from nothing? Just because you can’t explain it doesn’t mean it isn’t possible!”.

Atheists reading this may wonder, well the scale is surely different! Some may even say this newsletter up until now is nonsensical, and I’m merely hating on the bravado and confidence of atheists. They might also argue that I’ve not made a coherent argument against atheism.

You foolish boy, some atheist might remark. Arguing that atheists are arrogant asshats is a merely an ad hominem, and not an argument. You should do better, if you plan to write a letter critiquing our fine intellectual establishment.

To that, I say this; Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written

Here’s my simple request; do not assume I’m trying to convince you of anything. These articles are merely an attempt by me to collate my thoughts in a manner that might impress me on my death bed. However, that doesn’t mean I won’t make an argument. It just means it may not be made in a manner someone asides from me, or someone with my sensibilities, might appreciate.

Moving on.

Atheism is obviously true. There’s obviously no deity anywhere. Atheists, the regular ones, get that right. But it’s not enough to merely declare that religion is wrong. While that may be enough for some atheists, it’s simply uninteresting and perhaps intellectually lazy to do that alone.

It’s like a Christian who simply goes to church and prays on Sundays. Yes, that’s a huge part of what being a Christian is all about. But that’s certainly not all of it!

That’s why I argue that this sort of atheism is a luxury. Many people who hold this belief hold it with some levity, and wear it as a fashion item. They do not truly consider what it means.

Of course, I do not presume to tell atheists what to do with their intellectual labors. I’m merely commenting on how nonsensical their lack of intellectual labor can be. Those are two different things.

Your regular believer in Free Range Luxury Gay Space Anarcho-Atheism only holds the belief that God doesn’t exist. In fact, he lets you know this in every manner, even when you don’t ask. He’s constantly somewhere dunking on stupid religious people (for there are indeed many of this sort), and telling them that they have no right to ask him about the origin of the universe, because he simply doesn’t know it.

Look here, you God worshipping hypocrite, God doesn’t exist and that’s that about that. No, I don’t know what created the world, and no I don’t have any tool to help you deal with the uncertainty of existence, but I can inform you that you’re retarded beyond belief because you believe God can turn water into wine.

There are a few things to break down about this sort of atheist and his beliefs. The first thing is that despite claiming to be quite clever, his arguments against religious people are often hilariously bad.

Yes, religious people believe in miracles. But that’s because they believe that these miracles are divine in nature. Hence, our atheists attempt to debunk these beliefs by saying akshually people cannot walk on water, falls apart as a matter of principle. The religious dingbat isn’t saying it’s scientifically possible for someone to walk on water — he’s saying it’s a miracle.

It may be a baseless argument, but one attacks its baselessness, not the unscientific assumptions that the claim already does away with. There's a chasm of difference between arguing that a particular scenario is impossible and arguing that it's possible but you'll require evidence to believe it. Especially when the claim starts off with the assumption that the controlling entity in the scenario can do everything.

But that’s really by the way.

Your regular Free Range Luxury Gay Space Anarcho-Atheism believer is not just an atheist, he’s also a hate-ist. He hates religion, and blames religion for all the bad things man has ever done. If one listens to him enough, you may start to wonder whether religions are actually an entity of their own, and exist outside of people.

You will often catch this atheist arguing, very authoritatively, that religions indoctrinate people and force them to live lives they don’t want. They’ll also make fantastic claims like religions are keeping people in bondage, and that if not for certain religions we would all be living safe and happy lives.

A common claim this sort of atheist makes is that religions are the reason societies are patriarchal. Of course, at this point, you might have to think about the astonishing coincidence that every religion everywhere in every society ever made managed to create societies that are patriarchal in roughly the same manner.

The point is this sort of hate-ist hates religion, and isn’t afraid to let you know it.

If you’re a religious person fond of arguing with atheists, you may recognize this sort of person. And if you’re the regular sort of religious person, you might have made awful arguments that never manage to stick.

Here’s the thing; those arguments can never stick because they are also wrong. Religious people tend to argue from the point that their religious are obviously true in a literal sense. 

Sorry bucko, this is simply not that type of article. Your religion is most likely wrong as well, and the reasons are obvious if you choose to think about it. 

However, today is about our believer in gay space atheism. This believer believes that religions are the problem, and that ridding the world of religions will rid the world of problems. 

But, by Allah, that’s the one of the most batshit insane things I’ve ever read. And I’ll show you why our atheist is wrong, and why you should knock him upside the head with sound logic when he makes any variety of that idiotic argument.

First, we’ll be starting with a radical thought; religions are hardly ever the problem in any society. And it’s sort of rash, and totally unfounded to assume that abolishing religion would abolish the multitude of human idiosyncrasies and cruelties.

It’s rather unfortunate that one must tell atheists this, but religion didn’t create humans. Humans created religion. This means that religions didn’t spontaneously teach humans how to oppress one another or create some magical unjust oppressive structure in society. Humans are perfectly capable of creating those on their own, and putting the blame on religion is merely the hate-ists attempt to victim-blame a myth.

We also know that, by deduction, these beliefs didn’t sneak up upon society in the night and possess them. We know that they are man-made and man-accepted. That is, not only did religion come from our brains, it also gained wide acceptance because we choose to believe in them.

Another thing we know is that every society, everywhere, isolated by thousands of miles in land and sea, managed to create a religion. This at least tells us that religions are a vital ingredient of human societies. They are not some luxury that societies adopt because they want to. They are practiced and adopted because societies need them to survive.

If they weren’t an absolute necessity, we would have found at least one atheistic society. But we haven’t.

Now, you might want to be a clever lad and ask me an important question. But what of slavery? Every society practiced slavery. Does that mean it was absolutely necessary?

For certain societies yes. And the only reason why slavery isn’t cool today is because the industrial revolution created things called machines. These machines make it possible for society to create value without enslaving a third of its population.

And yes, this is true for literally any societal institution that is common across all human societies.

We have established that religion is vital to human societies, and was created by humans. These are obvious, really. I’m only going over them to make the logical progression of my argument clear.

Now that we’ve established that, the next question is why? Why did humans everywhere in every society ever made choose to create these fantastic stories about God?

There are two answers. One is probably immediately obvious and may have been the conscious reason for the invention of religion. The second is a little bit more unconscious.

The first reason is that human beings are quite inquisitive, generally speaking. Most religions generally began like this; a man, usually autistic and often deranged, looked up in the sky and wondered why. And then conjured the most ridiculous shit you could ever think of. He then managed to convince other people of this ridiculous shit.

The second is that human societies are very, very, very difficult to keep. There’s no job as hard as keeping more than a thousand people happy and forcing them to adhere to the same rules. You can make all the laws you want, but if people don’t see a point in following those laws, you will eventually run out of ways to enforce them.

Social cohesion is notoriously difficult to achieve. Have you ever tried to lead a group of people who didn’t have the same goals or beliefs? It’s literally harder than threading a camel through the eye of a needle. The thing about society is that getting people to have the same beliefs is no child’s play. In many cases, the upsides to this cannot be explained in plain and clear terms. You cannot reach social cohesion by telling people that “social cohesion is good”. It never works that way.

This means that social cohesion needs to be reached in some other manner. And this manner is often esoteric and religious. For example, it’s a lot easier to tell a young man to sacrifice himself for his society because his creator wants it than to tell him to sacrifice himself for his village because his life is generally more expendable.

Generally speaking, motivating people through the divine is more effective than appealing to their sense of responsibility to the tribe. After all, human beings are all intrinsically selfish beings. Hence, society must, in a way, trick itself into working together. That’s what all religions and all traditions do. They are psy-ops to engineer consent in society.

In the final analysis, this means that societies that have a religion can get its members to unite and work towards a goal better than societies that do not.

But does our believer in Free Range Luxury Gay Space Anarcho-Atheism think about this? No. You see, our atheist is a clever lad who believes that without religion, people will suddenly be very willing to live their lives in a way that props up the society he dwells in.

For example, he believes that without religious incentives or something closely approximating that, the vast majority of people would be willing to put effort into actually raising their kids responsibly. He imagines that without religion or something closely approximating that, the vast majority of men and women would continue to exhibit selfless behavior. He imagines that they will continue to be “fruitful” and “multiply”, and will simply never give in to their base instincts.

He believes that humanism is some sort of ethereal law and that people would obviously subscribe to his version of gay space morality immediately after the chains of religion are broken off from the poor indoctrinated masses.

He forgets that man made religion.

But let’s humor this atheist. Let’s assume that our world takes his word for it, and every last priest is stripped of their robe. What would happen? What would happen when religion finally falls?

No one can really tell. What we can tell for sure is what is already happening in the Free Range Luxury Gay Space Anarcho-Atheism community today. For one, people are having fewer children than ever.

There’s essentially a fertility crisis spreading across all nations where atheists are a significant portion of the population. Additionally, every study ever done has found that atheists, in general, tend to have fewer kids than religious people.

If you didn’t know, having children is perhaps the most important duty and responsibility any given human being has to the tribe. It’s the biggest possible contribution to the continuation of their species and every religion everywhere regards raising a family as a valiant effort.

However, without the myth of religion, people are starting to realize how difficult having a child and raising a family is. And many are wondering why? Why would they go through all of this for their community? There are children in orphanages aplenty, they argue. Why must we take on that burden?

(Importantly, they never actually adopt these children in the orphanage. Their argument is that there are already enough unfortunate children in society, and they will never add to it).

Of course, that sort of thinking is harmless when limited to only a few people. But when religion is eradicated, everyone will be asking that question, and very few would find a satisfactory answer to it. I hope no one has to explain how horrific that could be to any society in which parasitic ideas like that take root.

And that’s just one dynamic of the sort of selfless behavior that society loses when it disregards its founding and religious myths.

Now, the atheist reply to this might be that religion isn’t fundamental to creating beneficial societal myths. They may also argue that religions also cause significant social upheavals. They may mention crusades and Jihads to bolster their point.

I agree with that. But I also think it’s beneficial to have a large society that goes to war sometimes than have no society at all. I believe one is certainly more beneficial than the other.

Additionally, I believe any other societal myth asides from religion would still come under the same attack by this sort of atheist. So whether or not religion is the source of this myth is patently irrelevant, as the atheist treats all esoteric myths as the same.

In spite of all this, the atheist is still human.

And as a human, he also has his own peculiar idiosyncrasies. He might not love Gods created by Goat herders in the Middle East because of their unscientific nonsense, but he loves the religion of the Current Thing.

You see, our atheist has just managed, totally coincidentally, to develop a moral compass that is dramatically in tune with Western Progressive politics.

He believes that democracy is the greatest thing ever made, that all humans are created equal, that a fetus is a mere clump of cells, and virtually every Western Progressive idea in vogue.

He also constantly measures historical figures by their conformity to current-age moral sensibilities and can make a list of all the racist white philosophers to ever exist.

By a complete and total accident of history, our atheist has managed to grow up in an age where human moral compass finally reached its perfect configuration. His moral sensibilities are the best there ever has been, and the best there ever will be. Despite hating Neizhche he's become the Ubermensch; the perfect man.

In spite of all this, the atheist is still human.

And humans love their myths. He may have shaken off the shackles of esoteric religion, but he’s blindly walked into another religion. This one doesn’t ask him to cast or bind, or pray and fast, or deliver or be delivered.

Instead, it asks him to affirm lies, believe lies, and affirm progressive policy as truth.

It’s Free Range Luxury Gay Space Anarcho-Atheism.

It’s free range because like Christianity it was given to us freely.

It’s a luxury because only a certain kind of person in aptitude, personality, and intellect can affirm it.

It’s Gay, because why not?

It’s space because you can get lost in it.

And it’s anarcho atheism, because, unlike other religions that actually work for society, this one doesn’t.

“The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.”

Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code.