The New Atheists

Last night I spent a couple of hours watching  a conversation between the 4-“new atheists” –Hitchens-he died in 2011 of cancer, Dawkins, Dennet and Harris; this was recorded some years ago in 2007 and nothing really has changed regarding our knowledge of God or religions or even that much in physics and cosmology-true some things; but compared to the universe- infinitesimally small.  Also, I watched a debate between 3 religious scholars and 3 of the “new atheists” that was recorded at a Mexico conference-all fighting for their truth. Ridiculous. No side could prove their point-never will in the near future either.

Humanity absolutely astounds me, more so the “new atheists”. Because many of them have written volumes of books-stating their own wisdom and beliefs as being the correct one, the true one and, they have read just as many books –(plagiarizing some writing of others I am sure), thus they feel that they are intellectually, as well as morally superior to the ignorant masses of 97% of the words population who believe in God or some sort of creative energy consciousness or force; names do not matter. They feel they have license to pass judgment on others because they believe in Darwinian evolution theory, thus God-is non-existent as all of creation has happened according to mutational accidents, and natural selection-from after the original “Big Bang”-that emerged from "nothingness", that is still expanding and speeding up, I have to add.  Their arrogance, pretentious  superiority is infuriating, their disrespect is obnoxious beyond measure of these men-they think they know it all. Yet they know absolutely nothing.

The religious scholars-know nothing either; we are all in the dark. Faith-or religion is a personal choice of free will. There is no right or wrong-for the sacred, the mystical, the spiritual is on a different vibrational dimension, and cannot be quantified or measured scientifically. It is a choice to believe or not-and nobody`s business to force their beliefs on an other. If atheism works for you, if pantheism works for you, if panantheism works for you, if paganism works for you, if Wicca works for you or any religion works for you-go for it. As long as you do good, your intention is positive and you do no harm. God cannot be proved or disproved. Within one`s soul one knows one`s truth-and it is individual  quest!

The argument of the “new atheists” is that religion is keeping people in the dark, is evil, archaic mental slavery- because we have a rational mind, and according to them –because science is so advanced, and there is “no proof” of a creator force in science. So no “creator”, no ”intelligent design” or purpose to creation, -it just is. However-we have free choice to believe what we feel to be right for us.

However they do acknowledge that scientific theories fall by the wayside more often than not, and new ones arise-as even string theory has to date numerous evolutions-superstring theory, and at the moment  “11 dimensional theory”; called M-theory and the very latest-“the sting theory landscape”. Dark energy and dark matter is still in its relative infancy as to the ”whys and whats “of it in physics and cosmology- the dark energy is 68%  and dark matter 27% just a reminder, of the universe. So we are left with less than 5% of our visible universe. I ask you-then what do we actually know? It is comparable to our “junk DNA”.

There is and never be an end to it. So faith, which is not religion, but can be religion- to some degree gives us an anchor of sorts-in the form of stories, or shows us metaphors as to how it could be, for we cannot imagine the real truth; only as much as what our mind can imagine, for it is limited-it can imagine to only to a certain point, which is in a box of sorts-to transcend the box, one has to step outside, which is a non material field or energy, a totally new paradigm -we are far from that still. Enlightenment is a process, is a waking up, an unfolding-as Alan Watts said: ”If someone tells you they will teach you enlightenment, they are lying to you”.

God-or whatever one wants to call the creative force has been with man since the very first man walked the earth; proof we need not, neither will we have-for we have no concept of the term “infinite mind”-or ”the eternal”. We each have to find our own way, our own light our own divinity and connections to our “source”, our own whomever we call God-or no God. 

Religions are just a way-showers-they all point in the same direction; towards love and to understanding ourselves as sentient beings. Understanding that we are connected to something which has a higher purpose and one grain of sand is still part of the desert, as one drop of water is still part of the sea-the tiniest is just as important as the grandest in the working of creation; which is in the mind of whom I call God-who is “Infinite Love”-the “I AM”.