Je suis Charlie!

We all know what happened yesterday.  Now there will be endless debates whether Islam is or is not a peaceful religion, various discussions about the Islamic State and historical comparisons with the Christian Crusades.  In the end, there will be analysis of multiculturalism, immigrations policies, etc. etc.

I hate to say it, but this will lead absolutely nowhere.  The reason being that the problem is not with one concrete religion; the problem is the whole idea of any religion.

All major religions, all Gods that people worship, all rules of these major religions come from MEDIEVAL TIMES!

Today’s debate should not be about whether there is or there is not God.  We have no idea what is out there, so we have to wait for what the future will bring.  But it is obvious today, that ALL the religions are wrong about their interpretations.

How can I say it for sure?  Because, if practicing religion was in any way good for life, the best life would be found in the most religious countries and the worst life in the atheist countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country

Sorry, but I think most of us would prefer to be at the top of this list rather than the bottom.         

Therefore, the debate should be, How is it possible that people are still religious today when it is clearly NOT good for the society?

The answer is very simple and it is something the Western world is going to die on. 

THERE ARE TOPICS THAT WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT OPENELY.

Religion has some weird status of being something that you are not allowed to question.

The only way to stop religious fanatics from doing anything is to stop religions, make them dissappear  Now how do you stop religions?  It’s actually quite clear.  Religion is like a virus that infects the mind.  It’s like Ebola.  There is no cure and to get rid of it once you are infected is extremely difficult.  So the only way is through prevention, and to prevent something is to find out how a human becomes infected.

The virus of religion has a wicked way of infecting humans.  It actually uses parents of children.  These parents infect children who have no protection (protection is knowledge) plus children have genetically encoded complete trust in parents.  So most people are religious, because their parents taught them to be religious.

The second way is when people are completely depressed.  Someone died, child got sick or even worse, the individual is hopeless in life, can’t get a job, can’t do anything constructive, basically has no sense of direction.  Instead of thinking for himself and becoming a real individual, these individuals join religions, because they give them a false sense of purpose.

So now we have it.  The virus of religion can only be prevented if we convince the parents that they should not press their religious beliefs on their children, but how many parents will do that?  None!  No parents will admit that they cannot raise their kids or that they are raising them the wrong way.

So what is the final result?

Personally I think we are doomed!  Unless we come up with some type of a hypnotic procedure that would open the eyes to people infected by religion, we have no way of stopping this.

As long as we keep saying that religious beliefs are everyone’s private thing we are doomed!

As long as we keep saying that parents raise their children anyway they want we are doomed!

I am saying we, because as we can see in the Middle East where Muslims (Sunnis) are fighting Muslims (Shia), even if the one-day came that we are all Muslims, there will still be wars.

Therefore, unless we cure ourselves of this extremely deadly virus called religion, there will always be religious people, and where you have religious people, there will always be people who will interpret the religious books according their view. In the case of Charlie Hebdo, was someone who thought that the all mighty Allah needed some insignificant humans to be punished by some other insignificant humans.

And all of this happening on a piece of rock called Earth that is flying through an extremely empty space, through a solar system around the Sun, that is flying around the Milky Way Galaxy containing some 100 billion other stars. And this galaxy is on a collision course with another galaxy called Andromeda, which has probably even more than 100 billion galaxies, and this huge collision is absolutely insignificant in the observable universe where we see more than 100 billion other galaxies.

And all of this was made by an all-powerful God who wants us to pray several times a day?  Or God who does not want us humans to eat pork??  Or God who had sent his only child to Earth so he can rid us humans of sin that we are born in. Because of this God???!!!  Or God was this huge Universe made by God who is waiting for 120 people to vote in a closed room who will be the only human representative allowed to speak with God directly?????!!!!!

Je suis Charlie!

Jiri George DVORAK

founder of Entrypoint company