tyranny of a Capitalist class and government
defending them, people would put less concentration into the
things unseen and put such focus onto the real, materialistic
world. Instead of investing in prayers, people would be offering
their kindest and warmest affections to those around them. We
would not build churches, but homes — we would not ask the gods
for forgiveness for our actions, but those we harmed — we would
not pray for things to happen, but make them happen — we would
not rely on the superstitious myths that have guided so many to
bigotry, or rely on the unseen to do what we must do for
ourselves, or praise anything that was nothing more than an idol
representing cruelty and misguided violence. If a man reserves
his love for a god and for angels, he simultaneously deprives
love from those around him. By giving our kindness and
affection, our sincerest dreams and hopes, desires and
aspirations, to this being without evidence, we are losing focus
of the one thing that we do know: our lives. And by losing focus
on our lives, and those around us, we are ignoring the one thing
that we know for sure: that we, as material beings, do exist,
and that we are capable of feeling joy and suffering. To ignore
this is the greatest of ignorances, and the most grave of all
follies.
Tolerance and Acceptance
If there was a god, I would make only one prayer to him: That
his followers would follow truth over scripture, benevolence
over cruelty, science over myth; to ask his followers to be more
focused and concentrated on the things that exist — their
lovers, their family, their children, their friends — to uphold
truth as beautiful, and kindness as sincerity. There is no other
prayer I could give to such a deity ruling over our