Monicks: Unleashed

Tag: Atheist

  • God has narcissistic personality disorder.

    Our Father, to thine own pathological self be true

    HERE’S my theory. God has narcissistic personality disorder.

    Stay with me as I indulge in two of my favourite pastimes: illuminating monotheistic religion’s exploitation of the human desire to feel safe, loved and special; and my constant need to question and expose maladaptive behaviour. Let’s pathologise!

    Here’s the deal: tick five in the diagnostic criteria and we have an NPD winner!

    ■ Feelings of grandiosity and self-importance (I am God); exaggerating accomplishments (I made you and the world) to the point of lying (I exist and there is a heaven); demands to be recognised as superior without commensurate achievements (Worship me and only me because I am great and almighty and I know everything).

    ■ Obsession with fantasies of success, power, brilliance, beauty or perfect love (I will love you, you will love me and we will live happily in eternity).

    ■ Conviction you are unique and special (I am almighty. I am the one and only God).

    ■ Requires excessive adulation, attention and affirmation – or, failing that, wishes to be feared (Worship me. And me only. Or you will feel my wrath. Worse still, you will not come to my party in heaven).

    ■ Feels entitled. Demands automatic compliance with unreasonable expectations for special and favourable priority treatment (Follow my rules and rituals no matter how barmy, or you’ll go to hell. And don’t question me. Because I am God).

    ■ Is ”interpersonally exploitative”: uses others to achieve his or her own ends (Kill in the name of God. Wage war in the name of God. Cut off family members in the name of God. Punish children in the name of God. Discriminate against homosexuals, non-believers and women in the name of God. Spread the word and convert others so I have more power in the name of God).

    ■ Devoid of empathy (Kill in the name of God, etc).

    ■ Behaves arrogantly (I am great and you are sinners); feels ”above the law” (Kill in the name of God, etc).

    Atheist pin-up boy Richard Dawkins describes God as “the most unpleasant character in all fiction. Jealous and proud of it. Petty, vindictive, unforgiving and racist. An ethnic cleanser urging his people on to acts of genocide.” Mm, smell that NPD!

    It has been suggested that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong-il, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama suffer NPD.

    NPDs are often extremely successful in business, politics, entertainment, sport and the clergy. It’s believed a highly emotional, chaotic childhood results in a sense of inferiority, which hobbles NPDs’ ability to be true to themselves; instead creating a false reality. Which becomes their reality.

    They are charismatic, persuasive and intelligent and become skilled actors who can fake any emotion and have the ability to make you glow with their favour. But they are deceitful, ruthless, manipulative users who are unpredictable and emotionally erratic. The emotional transaction is wildly out of whack. They expect the best but give very little. They cannot love and have no empathy. But they are emotionally needy and crave attention so hone their skills to attract love, admiration and attention to fill a hole inside them that will never be filled.

    NPDs don’t feel they exist without an adoring fan club, so they create their own fantasy world in which they are king. With their manufactured charisma and genuine hauteur, they make others feel special by granting small mercies and bestowing their favour.

    Which is how people get sucked into the transaction of worshipping a God despite no rational evidence. Babies die in ditches every day, yet God helps Hollywood stars win trophies. “Ah yes, the Lord works in mysterious ways. He helps me find my car keys occasionally. And because he’s so famous, and he noticed me, that makes me special. So I keep believing. Because if I don’t, I won’t be special.”

    My 11-year-old atheist gave me the revelation that God had NPD when he said, “I think we invented God and then God invented us.”

    It was Galileo who said, ”I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

    Source: TheAge.com.au

    Via: @leapingjudas

  • My latest mischief.

    I had to attend church for a catholic wedding a couple of weeks ago, so I thought that my “sacrifice” shouldn’t be a total waste. I had to be there, even fretting the head spinning thing with projectile vomit that happens to me every time I attend church - ok, not really. So I printed quite a few flyers with this image, took them to church that night and discreetly but determinedly mixed them with the pamphlets that were disposed for next morning’s mass. The trinity dogma and salvation by blood are the breaking points of my lack of belief… I wonder if I got at least one person to think… would have loved to be a fly on the wall that Sunday! Lol. leave a comment

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    I had to attend church for a catholic wedding a couple of weeks ago, so I thought that my “sacrifice” shouldn’t be a total waste. I had to be there, even fretting the head spinning thing with projectile vomit that happens to me every time I attend church – ok, not really. So I printed quite a few flyers with this image, took them to church that night and discreetly but determinedly mixed them with the pamphlets that were disposed for next morning’s mass.

    The trinity dogma and salvation by blood are the breaking points of my lack of belief… I wonder if I got at least one person to think… would have loved to be a fly on the wall that Sunday! Lol.

  • The Many Things God Hasn’t Done

    Submitted by Kevin R Brown on February 18, 2009 – 6:33pm.

    No doubt there’s some important stuff I’ll have missed; feel free to add to the list as you see fit:

    God did not create the universe

    Our universe was formed via the expansion of a singularity and subsequent formation of structures by hydrogen atoms through gravitational attraction. A magical deity adds nothing to the known explanation.

    God did not create the solar system or the Earth

    Our sun was formed by the particle clouds left behind from previous stars, and our planet (as well as every other planet in the solar system) formed from an accretion disk surrounding our sun.

    God did not create life on Earth

    Life on Earth was formed through a chemical evolutionary process known as ‘abiogenesis’ (not to be confused with modern evolutionary science, dealing with the propagation of alleles through a population).

    God did not create homo sapiens

    Homo sapiens evolved along the primate branch of the genetic tree. We are simply the ‘latest model’ of great apes.

    God did not give us ‘souls’ or ‘free will’

    Human beings are conscious and self-aware via their brains. An extra, magical source for our intelligence adds nothing to the known explanation.

    God has yet to answer a prayer

    Under controlled conditions, when a request is made via prayer for something unambiguous, nothing ever happens.

    God did not provide us with accurate insight into the mechanics the universe he supposedly was somehow involved in erecting

    None of the mythological texts supposedly divined into existence by God reflect reality.

    God did not talk to you last night

    You can kid yourself and your choir all you like. We both know it didn’t happen.

    God did not send his Holy Spirit through you

    See above.

    God did not invent morality

    Morality was a trait favored by natural selection, as it encourages population growth & stability.

    So then:

    What the Hell did God do that is apparently so obvious to you? All of the things traditionally attributed to God are mis-attributions; it’s just outright wrong to say that magic was somehow necessary to make the universe, Earth, people, etc. We also both know that you’re being dishonest when you claim that a prayer was magically answered or that God manifested for you.

    So: where does God come into it?

    Quote:

    “Let me say only this much to the moral issue involved: Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and that we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them?But, again, don’t misunderstand me. The only conclusion we can draw is that governments acting in a crisis are guided by questions of expediency, and moral considerations are given very little weight, and that America is no different from any other nation in this respect.”

    – Leo Szilard

    Source: RationalResponders.com