Fear-Bred Religious Delusions Make Apocalypse Inevitable

How Belief in a Hereafter Fosters Suicidal Abandonment of the Now

THE SADDEST, MOST TRAGIC element within human consciousness is its uncanny and ultimately self-destructive penchant for seducing us into believing in what the god-peddlers and heaven-hucksters and Prosperity Gospel indulgence-pushers call “eternal life.” 

For it is that delusion -- that and none other -- that has doomed our species by convincing it of the ultimate Big-Lie rationalization for doing nothing whatsoever to improve human life on earth, merely because “there's a better land a-waiting in the sky.” 

Thus the monstrous falsehood of “eternal life” becomes the excuse for every one of the infinite horrors our species has ever perpetrated on itself and its environment; note how individual victims of violence or misfortune or disease are inevitably described as “gone to a better place.”

 

Less frequently spoken aloud but equally delusional is the notion the uncountable victims of our species' infinite numbers of genocides are similarly succored in compensation for their sufferings. 

It is all bullshit. 

And it is proven bullshit by the fact the vast majority of persons who live beyond so-called “near-death experiences” report that nothing -- absolutely nothing -- awaits us beyond death.

Of the perhaps two-dozen or so people I know who have at one time or another been clinically dead -- some goddess-focused Pagans, some Christians, some Jews, some avowed agnostics, a couple of atheists -- only one, an agnostic, ever reported anything apart from total sensory deprivation: absolute nothingness and utterly empty darkness, each of an intensity impossible to describe. 

Karl Marx, unquestionably the most daringly perceptive intellectual our species will ever produce, referred to religion as “the opiate of the masses.” 

I would argue Marx dared pursue his re-definition of religion no further than he did because in his brilliance he understood...

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