Why there should be a national day to honor atheists.

From Woman of Wisdom

Title: Why there should be a national day to honor atheists.


1. Because Atheists have figured out that deities do not exist anywhere period, zero, zilch, nota.
They have also figured out that god religions have always partnered with government leaders in order to maintain war states that profit only the few at the expense of the many. It is all about mysticism and trust your religious and government leaders at your peril.

2. And if atheists have had studies in anthropology or ancient history, they know that the
first religious experience for about the first 500,000 years of human existence was about an awe or respect for life which came and comes from human mothers. Humans were not at war with nature and neither was the human family at war with itself until greedy and jealous gods were envisioned in human male minds.

3. Atheists are the only group of people who are serious about compassion for their fellow
humans. They know that it is only religion that blocks things like stem cell research. It is
only religion that has held back needed vaccines such as the vaccine for cervical cancer for
women. The bible is rife with misogyny. And why is that? Because war profiteering could not continue if women/mothers were not suppressed and oppressed.

4. Atheists are the only group of people who care about equality for all because it is only religion
that rails against segments of the human family such as homosexuals. Atheists do not have religious hang ups over gender orientation. We do not have disdain for or want to control our brothers and sisters who might have a different gender orientation than we have.

5. Atheists realize that the language of the bible is vile and violent and should be assigned to
barbaric times only. The language/messages in the bible were responsible for times of
religious mass murders and crimes against humanity such as the Inquisition that lasted for
500 years. A rough estimate by scholars is that 9 million women and children were tortured
and murdered in the most sadistic ways possible. After that shameful period in our religious
history, religion should have been taken out of the hands of men. Just like Japan was
forbidden to have a military after Pearl Harbor, men should have been banned from
practicing their new god religions for all times. Why weren't they? Because by then war
states had taken over our world. A war state is created for the preservation of the institution
of war. And war state leaders need the various gods to bolster up the soldiers of the poor to
throw their lives away for the powerful/wealthy few. There have been 250 wars since
peace was declared after World War II. Where gods exist in the human mind, no one is ever
serious about peace. Until we chase the gods out of our societies, wars will eventually destroy
the human race, the human family.

6. Atheists love life and love over war and death. We do not want the hope of floating off to a place that does not exist to also not exist with other zombie-like or vampire imaginaries. Being bodiless with no human senses is the most horrible thing we could imagine. Atheists are happy to know that we are reborn in our offspring; or if that idea does not appeal to you, then we are happy to give up our timeshare to the next generation and hope they can get things more right than we have. Maybe future generations will de-fund religion and war and divert those resources to human needs and environmental preservation.

7. Atheists are adults. We do not need to revert back to a childlike state where an imaginary,
cruel by any standards, male figure rules over us. Because in a patriarchal/war/religious state there are not real laws to protect people from the mentally ill, from guns, e.g., the religious feel they need a pretend entity to do what governments were originally created to do. Here in
America the terrorists are not foreigners, they are us. Since the 1970s most mental hospitals in America were shut down because the Republicans did not want to fund them. So therefore,
the mentally ill are left to fend for themselves. President Lincoln, and President John Kennedy and also Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon were not assassinated by foreigners, no they were assassinated, using guns, by our mentally ill. And as we know, our leaders pretend that the First Ammendment to our Constitution refers to needing private, armed militias in America in this 21st Century. Do we really believe that our National Guard cannot protect us if Britain comes back to attack? Of course not. That is more war state nonsense. Wealthy men in America feel they need their hoard of guns to protect themselves against the less fortunate. America has more poor people in prisons than any other country in the world. We have the most prisons because our govt. refuses to provide equal education for all, and a more equal distribution of America's wealth. It is impossible to write on religion only because all aspects of a society are integrated. None of the disfunctions of patriarchy/religion exist in a vacuum. Imagine the various elements of a society in a pyramid form. At the base is religion; so that if you have a sick religion, the entire society is not going to work for the benefit or humans. It will only work for a few at the very top. And those few at the top do not care about our environment, about medical research, or anything else that would benefit anything other than corporate profits. That type of govt. religious partnership is not sustainable. We must be brave enough and smart enough to say "NO" to god religions because they are the base of a very destructive pyramid.

I believe in the human family, not in decisive god religions that have successfully divided our human family into warring and competitive factions that only benefit the few people at the top. Gods must keep humans afraid. Afraid of dying and also afraid of not obeying a violent male hierarchy of war which is what causes the unnecessary deaths of our young. Gods rule by fear. Being recycled after a life of love and goodness is nothing to fear. But the unnecessary death of our youth as sacrifices to war is a terrible human tragedy.

Goddess bless you all at this special time of the year that is suppose to have something to do
with peace.

Sources: Saharasia: The 4,000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex Repression, Warfare and Social Violence in the Deserts of the Old World by James DeMeo, Ph. D

A History of the Modern World by R.R. Palmer and Joel Colton.

Sex and Religion in Oppression by Bernard Braxton

When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone