Passage of Time

It's been about a month and guess what? I think it's official, I've broken free from the shackles of religion.

I've been thinking about life a lot, especially the things I've read about and mentioned in prior posts. I'm so glad that I'm an open minded person. I've always been looking for the 'truth' and my trips have definitely taken me a long 'intellectual' path that most people in the world never could or would. (I only apply the parentheses around intellectual because as 'bright' as I may be I'm still amazed and humbled by the amounts of information other people have assimilated throughout their years)

I'm going to try to read two or three books this week, as I'm on spring break. The first would be The God Delusion, which I've started reading but couldn't get around to it due to time constraints. The second is an assignment for English class, although I do assume I'll enjoy reading Wells' War of the Worlds because of my background.

I feel so liberated, so free, it's unbelievable. Commenting on this one article on digg about a $300 million dollar supermosque that's supposed to be built in London somewhere I remember saying something like, "The day $300 million dollars would be spent on something useful rather than propogating religious superstition is far, far away." The comment dugg down a good amount, and I laughed, I just laughed.

I envision religion will plague our world for years to come and will most likely evolve out of the 'Jesus will return' scenario into something less ridiculous. Perhaps somebody will discover some ancient text(or make one out of thin air) and change its ways. Religion won't end us, science has done so much for the planet and minds of people it would be impossible to keep the world in some primitive state.

Look at some of these quotes from this URL: http://www.wonderfulatheistsofcfl.org/Quotes.htm

Most of the quoted people are/were top academics and intellectuals. Does that not say something in of itself? Were they given their intellect by devils to lure you into the sin of disbelief? I'm disappointed in humanity, however, I suppose other civilizations achieving the stage of intelligence must combat it as well. Oh, how marvelous our short civilization's history is, and how splendid the civilizations of others could be. I always think about how first contact would be, what kind of language they would speak, what kind of characters they use for letters and numerals. I am wildly enthusiastic about the future.

I think I'll go ahead and start reading. Mirë upafshim.