The religion gambit

The French writer Edmond de Goncourt, once said: "If there is a God, atheism must seem to him as less of an insult than religion."

The greatest myth of fundamentalist atheism is that the movement is against god...it isn’t, its biliousness is targeted at organised religion.

In the soil from whence sprung Christianity, Islam, and Judaism there is a virus, and it has killed all rationality and generosity these modes of thought ever possessed — if indeed they did at all.

Hinduism and Buddhism are different sorts of animals from the Big 3. Hinduism in its polytheism is a potpourri of myth and fairy tale that has evolved from a way-of-life into a religion. Buddhism is a knee-jerk reaction to the rigors of Hinduism: its philosophy is flawed and weak and its followers have descended into idealists more resembling court jesters led by the increasingly redundant Dalai Lama.

Both Hinduism and Buddhism have been bolstered over the last half-century by a spurt in celebrity converts, but their lack of adaptation to the evolving social climate, signal them as endangered (Hinduism enjoys strong support in India, but it is swiftly being replaced with Islam and Christianity in other parts of Asia, and Buddhism is more chic than viable).

The Big 3 continue to barrel on with their power-bases relatively intact at the Vatican, Mecca and Jerusalem. Each of them also has at its vanguard a globe-spanning commodity, that will see them survive — if not flourish — will into the future.

Christianity focuses on conversion (baited by the promise of education), Islam on its persecution complex, and Judaism on the wealth of its patrons.

Atheism will find it difficult to bring down the houses of the holy by reason alone, for at the bedrock of religion is fantasy and blind belief. If there is one thing history has taught us is that the only way to destroy a religion is with religion. The ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians will attest to this fact.

Hence atheism must now function on doctrine and it must promote militancy and fundamentalism. It must also lie and do so with great vigour...in other words atheism must become a religion.

With the writings and prodding of the likes of Dawkins and Gould, atheists can take their nascent movement to its eventual conclusion...spurring a new Age of Reason and Enlightenment, devoid of the idiosyncrasies, follies and dogma of organised religion.

When, however, this has been achieved the neo-Atheistic movement must disband or suffer the same fate of that which it vanquished.