Saturday 25 February 2012

Atheism and rebellion

Dissension and defiance have always supported man to stand out and fulfill his sense of individualism. Mankind was always smitten by the heroism of going against the grain of any form of authority hovering over their heads. People rebelled against all figures of supervision, starting with their micro communities, their monarchs in the age of empires, their societies in the age of democracy, and eventually God in the age of humanism.

Rebellion is an intrinsic feature of man. One way or another, a man is constantly rebelling against something in order to survive and remain. He rebels against death and life; satiation and hunger; loneliness and company, sifting through opposite values in his search for self realization and actualization. That state of constant rebellion points to constant and arbitrary servitude, and Atheism is simply a false declaration of independence of man, and a hasty announcement of victory over visible strains and shackles, undermining the invisible

In our time of world peace and universal morality, there are no more threats to man on earth, as relativity got absolutized, and all bad died taking good down to the grave with it to the same grave. The only enemy left is the idea of absolute itself, as evil must be attributed to something, somehow. Absolutism concludes control and dominion, a notion that people usually find abhorring and repelling, because they can neither control nor dominate anything but themselves anymore. The question to remain unresolved is simple, Why to be controlled if they cannot control?

The maximum control over one thing equals the total loss of it over another. By this age's merits of man, man is totally deprived from all forms of external authority under the demonic banners of freedom of speech, world peace, tolerance, and human rights. The new man is totally detached from the world he lives in, and there is no point of accepting a biding understanding of his surroundings. The very same that happened by the end of the age of empires and the segregation of peoples on the basis of color and language. People had no extended sense of authority that goes beyond their borders, and the chain reaction of independence never stopped since.

The more time passes, the narrower individual authority gets. This devolution culminates to the delusive point of controlling one's affairs apart from all extraneous elements, then continues till man loses the control over his whole self in order to maintain the top performance of some of its facets. The dialect of authority would grow out of proportion till authority ends up as a synonym for slavery to maintain the obsession with control over smaller and smaller notions . The abdication man makes of his cosmic responsibilities for the sake of better life conditions can lead only to the assassination of faith in God, due to the impossibility of bearing its vocation and duty.

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