It's Not Wrong To Not Need To Be "saved" Or "chosen" By A God.

It's not wrong to not need to be "saved" or "chosen" by a god.

You don't need a god to follow good morals.

And you don't need a god in order to live a good life.

Humans evolved to thrive when they have good connections with:

1.) Themselves (i.e., they come to know and understand and accept themselves as human beings);

2.) Their Environment (i.e., they spend time in, and, if they so choose, nurture and do a bit of tending in the natural landscape that they call home); and,

3.) Their Community (i.e., maintain authentic, mutually-consensual, and close ties to family, friends, and/or other members of their community: building and becoming part of the interconnected support networks that help their communities to function and thrive).

We have sentience apart from these foundational human wants and needs; so we get to choose to pursue skills, crafts, fields of knowledge; and personal or communal goals that appeal to us and that make us happy...but aside from choosing that purpose voluntarily for ourselves, what is wrong with just living a good life and loving and caring for and helping the people and the lands around you in whatever little ways you like?

Why is that not enough?

Does everyone really have to have an overblown 'Chosen One' complex in order to be worth anything?

Because all those little ways of being can add up to something immensely beautiful and satisfying... provided, of course, that the current systems in which we live aren't actively preventing, undoing, and sabotaging our connections to them.

When I came out as atheist, I sat at the kitchen table -- maybe, 4 to 5 hours straight -- explaining what I used to believe as a christian, and I debunked each point of belief with the new things I'd learned: effectively mapping out my deconstruction.

Directly after that, one of the family members, looking at me with a rapt expression, said, "Wooowwww….you believed in god for THOSE reasons? That's so smart!! That's why I'M going to believe from now on! :DD "

…as if I hadn't just thoroughly explained, in minute detail, why those reasons were absolute trash🤦🏾‍♀️

The only thing that upsets me more, is trying to imagine…why on earth did she believe in god BEFORE she had all these new (though thoroughly debunked) reasons handed to her? 😕

Video Weekend

The Anarchist Audio Library --

Braiding Sweetgrass (Playlist):

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Braiding Sweetgrass - Audiobook

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Written by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Indigenous botani

Reminder:

The owning class don't want to provide for the unwanted children that abortion and contraceptive bans will create.

They want those children working on farms and in factories, and, when they're old enough, going either into private-run prisons making products for pennies per hour, or, to recruitment offices to sign up to go overseas to kill innocent people in wars for the land and resources the ultra rich love to hoard.

The aim of conservatism is never well-being and thriving and freedom for humans. Conservatives only want to dominate, control, and exploit others, while insisting that you call them 'the good guys'.

I think what disturbs me most about a lot of the religious right whenever they debate atheists on the existence of god, is that a lot of them are so incredibly desperate to get to the 'Yes, a god exists!' conclusion -- NOT because it means that we can understand the universe and ourselves better, or that we can make life better for everyone because of it -- but so they can then relax, and finally say, guilt free: "And that's why women need to be slaves in a kitchen with no goals or dreams of their own"; or, "And that's why trans and LGBT+ folk aren't allowed to be a part of society"; or, "And that's why we need to treat children like they're 'mini mes' that have no identity or interiority of their own!"; or, "And that's why we should be allowed to completely trash this planet with no regard for other species, nor even ourselves!"

Internalized Fascism

Seriously.

If you want to know the shape of the fascist cage that media has constructed inside our minds, our parents' minds, and our grandparents' minds over the years?

Read that awful "Screenwriter's Guide for Americans" slop that Ayn Rand wrote.

And then, if you're a creator?

Go forth, and do your damnedest to make works that depict and stand for the OPPOSITE.