With a vast collection of books at my disposal, both read and soon-to-be-read, I would like to share my recommended readings with you – the intrigued, freethinking and curious reader. Books included in this ongoing series will cover various topics from philosophy to science; atheism to religion; politics to social affairs; and will include a short statement from my view. I confirm that you will enjoy.
For innumerable centuries, most of the Western world’s countries were controlled by authoritarian and totalitarian elites; encompassing multitudes of anti-liberty influences. Societies would often be maintained by rulers who proselytised the population with predetermined perspectives of how people should live. Fortuitously, the action of declaring liberty strengthened from the enlightenment era in much of the Western world and it surely succeeded. The 21st century, is indeed at the highest point – well, at least the western world – it has ever been with regard to liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and human rights. This of course brings me to the purpose of this essay: if we have so much freedom to speak aloud through means of protests, writing, the internet, television and music, why do the general public not embrace such liberty of which are forebears fought so deeply?
Suddenly, we have seen a stream of attacks on France this year and there are numerous motives as to why France is the ideal country to target. Now, I do not mean to forget decades-old attacks in the Western and non-Western countries, but I do want to put emphasis on why France was the target for this particular attack.
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." - Napoleon Bonaparte
What was going through the minds of those who designed religion? What were the influences of the authors, founders, creators, pioneers of religion? These are the questions I have often thought about when researching religiosity; assisting me in gathering reasons why the religious believe what they believe. So, I thought I’d do some essential critical thinking and research to structure in this short essay on how the creators of religion were determined to design the world’s most dangerous scheme.
In this essay, it is imperative for me to highlight the audacity of those who tirelessly defend religion. The outspoken non-religious community who publicise the harm of religion always encounter individuals who attempt to defend dogmatic beliefs; forming sly excuses for why religion is supposedly not an issue. I have independently coined the term “religion-defender” as it can describe those who attempt to be ‘too nice’ by denying the harm caused by religion.
The subject of religion isn’t the most researched or discussed subject among the general public. Many people attempt to avoid a discussion regarding religion; attempting to abolish it from their minds when an atrocity is committed with religion being its root motivation. Presently, there are likely more agnostics in secular parts of the world than are atheists or theists.
Science is a subject of knowledge that involves major worldwide support and only the tenacious will attempt so hard to ignore the work of science, holding onto subjective views that they cannot emotionally survive without. Science is not only a fascinating field to appreciate, but the information within science contain the use of reason and logic over irrationality and senselessness. Science can be considered unexciting and uninteresting as a result of countless, repetitively tedious lessons within the classroom (from my own experience) – this gives science a bad reputation for some children in education, but I will not go into further detail on that issue in this essay as I will save it for another. The main focus on this essay relates to why science is an evidently fascinating subject; emphasising the pursuit of truth.
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