Atheism was up first (Here's a FAQ on the Subject: GOD FAQ [Frequently asked Questions]) but now the gloves are coming off. There are three shackles that imprison the mind of every breathing human. These shackles need to be cast off to get us back into a fast forward state of evolution. The three shackles are the 3 great lies or more accurately the three great myths. They are: Immortality, God and Free will.
I covered atheism although I would add based on some of the people who have questioned my ethical beliefs based on atheism I would add: The belief in god has nothing to do with ethics. I find it insulting that I need to be threatened with various religion's representation of hell or afterlife or be baited with each religion's version of heaven to force me to be ethical. Ethics is essentially a belief of how things should be and not a belief in what is. If you think of your environment and reflect on how to make things better and how everyone can co-exist in peace and still prosper then your are treading down the path of non-faith based ethics. It reminds me of Einstein:
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. (Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930)
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. (Albert Einstein)
Immorrtality should be self evident but simply put... You don't have soul or spirit and when you die you die. The process by which you percieve the world is a chemical reaction that is occuring in your brain, when the reaction ceases, so do you. (Atleast so far as it's you that is concerned.)
Last up, Free will. All social behavior can be modeled as an emergent process, and the perception of free will external to causality is essentially a gift of ignorance. You percieve that everything your doing is because you are choosing to do it and hold the illusion that at any moment you could just change anything you wanted about yourself. Free will is an illusion and we are all essentially robots following predetermined code based on our current environment with our current upbringing code. Don't generalize too much, two brothers can be raised in the same household and go to the same schools yet have completely different experiences and radically different equipment.
Our brains are constructed of synapses that process our input signals and then trigger a reaction and work much like a modern computer. We have desires because those desires were imprinted from some external source. For example you may want to go to Chili's more often then other restaurants and would still believe you chose to go there while denying their monthly blitz ad campaign had anything to do with influencing you to go there.
Here's a quote from Spinoza on the subject:
“The mind is determined to this or that choice by a cause which is also determined by another cause, and this again by another, and so on ad infinitum,” Spinoza wrote. “This doctrine teaches us to hate no one, to despise no one, to mock no one, to be angry with no one, and to envy no one.”
As a complete sidetrack, why do so many christian's believe in the death penalty. Their bible teaches that no matter what man does so long as he asks forgiveness he will be forgiven and can go to heaven. (I can't seriously believe people still believe in this stuff btw... It is pretty old world as in 'Olde Worlde' beliefs hehe...) Their studies teach them to forgive yet they rally forth behind execution and imprisonment. Prison today is basically publically accepted torture and breeds more hard criminals then any other system today. I can't find the scripture that says thou shalt murder and torture.... Did I miss it?
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