Recently this blog has strayed significantly from its former glory, but I intend to put a stop to that. I was surveying my top 5 post picks and noticed that many of the finer posts employ a particular brand of logic, comparing a feature of religion or society to something scientific such as mental illness or physiological need fulfillment. Therefore, in an effort to return this blog to its initial purposes, I shall now draw a comparison between atheism and the surgical removal of a certain inflamed organ. That's right, in my crazy world of backdoor logic, atheism is equivalent to an appendectomy.
Let's just use for argument's sake the intelligent design theory of the existence of God. This theory states that the universe is so infinitely complex that there must have been some kind of intelligent being to have created it, who has since let the universe steer its own course. Sort of a modern take on Deism, this theory sounds to me like some theistic microbiologist got either scared or lazy, but I'll take it for now. So what we have is a situation in which there is absolutely no need for the existence of a god, except at the very beginning when it all started. In other words, God can exist, but it doesn't have to anymore because it is obsolete. Similarly, several parts of the human anatomy are left over appendages from millions of years ago when some ancestral species in our geneological tree needed them for survival in the prehistoric world. The appendix, for example, serves no purpose in the biological success of modern man, yet it still exists because no selective pressures existed specifically to eliminate that particular feature. So what once was necessary remains in existence until it becomes a hinderance to its owner, not merely when it becomes superfluous. The appendix becomes a hinderance to its owner when the body is afflicted by inflamation in this area, or appendicitis as it is specifically known. At this point the organ must be removed before it can cause further damage to the body. It's pretty much harmless and irrelevant before that time, just as the existence of God is no longer relevant to our own existence. However, inflamation of your god, or what I call organized religion, can be extremely dangerous to the rest of the system. God in and of itself is harmless and irrelevant, perhaps even beneficial in rare, isolated cases, but when the society is afflicted by organized religion, things get ugly and everything goes to hell, but that's a different post.
The clearest solution to this problem is removal. Just as the appendix can be removed at the first sign of a potential health threat, God can be removed from your life in order to prevent any damage to said life. This process is called atheism, and it can work wonders. For some it may be a slow and painful process of realizing that your very concept of existence is utterly false, but anesthetics by the name of not giving a rat's ass are available from your local apothocary of sarcasm.
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