The Atheist Manifesto (Draft II)

by Eric Portelance and Toulouse-Antonin Roy
Updated: April 26 2004

Religion is a drug, a form of mind control that gives people the false illusion that a supernatural being watches their every action. Religious doctrines enforce the believer with the idea his religion is superior over all others, and he is the one that will attain salvation and not the Muslim, Christian or Jewish infidel of the other faiths. In other words, this shows how biased religion can be; we all know religion is based on age old books written by prophets and disciples who obviously all had different opinions and views on what their respective prophet said. Thus, every holy book from the Old Testament to the Koran is filled with contradictions and beliefs that aren’t even the views of the respective prophet himself, and these books are nothing more than a compilation of short stories and morals that do nothing more than confuse the reader. Another biased factor in these holy books is the fact they tell the believer not to question God but rather to accept and submit to him which is contradictory because the whole idea of religion is to decipher the meaning of life through the idea of a higher power. Religion also creates prejudice, hate and warfare by pitting these different religious doctrines against each other with the idea of one religion’s God being superior to another. But even with all these known contradictions, why does one cling to God and refuse to accept rational thought? It’s a very complex question that requires quite a simple answer; human beings fear the unknown, they fear anything that isn’t of this world, they fear death, the afterlife and they spend their whole lives questioning how they came to be, and it is this simplistic notion of a creator figure or the so-called creation myth that enables the common human being to accept religion as the answer to the meaning of their existence. However we Atheists have come to accept rational thought, refuse and defy the dogmatic authoritarian ways of religion and instead of working hard through meaningless nonsense such as prayer to one day have our seat in the so-called kingdom of God, we work toward building heaven on earth, the utopia every man and woman dreams of, the utopia where all are equal and the status-quo is a constant state of harmony.