Truth
Psychology of Christian High School Kids
Abstract
© Dr M D Magee
Contents Updated: Thursday, 20 June 2002
Lionel Moirez
Lionel Moirez is an angry young man from Connecticut who, at Christmas 2001, wrote this provocative but observant essay for Darwin Bedford’s discussion pages at Atheist Net. He writes that he is aged 16 and:
Recently my life has been tormented due to the fact that I have made the mistake of openly telling people I am an atheist. I am constantly persecuted for my differences in opinion, and treated like a beast. When I bring this subject up to others for discussion they claim “You’re insane” or “You’re so full of shit” and so on. Personally I don’t like my mental stability being questioned or criticized anymore than it has already.
So, Lionel puts down a pungent examination of the psychology of his Christian school “pals”. (Lightly edited.)
Christianity
Christian: n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin”.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842-1914?) The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Probably the largest cult claiming it’s a religion due to the sheer amount of followers it has drawn. Currently 18.6% of the world’s population is Islamic, 21.1% Atheist/Agnostic, and 33.6% Christian/Catholic. Even though we are the second largest group in the world, we receive the least amount of recognition and are constantly ignored and criticized. Surprisingly enough people just don’t want to hear the truth anymore.
Most Christians aren’t necessarily the brightest apples in the bunch. They’re brought up to believe what their parents believe and their parents’ parents believed and so on down the line all the way back to the beginning. It’s a continuous, unending pattern in human history. Like a chain that can’t be broken. I’m tired of hearing about it and it’s time for such a “perfect” thing to be shown as the fraudulent fairytale it really is.
Christians are basically scared into believing in Christianity, i.e. if you don’t believe in god; you go to hell and burn for all eternity. Basically what this means is if you’re not with us you’re against us so you should deserve to die over and over again in the most painful and scary place that we can create.
And some are raised by their parents to believe in Christianity. Their parents and peers on occasion put images into the youngsters mind that subconsciously tell them that this religion is good and believing in anything else is completely wrong. And after years and years of saying, “I’m a Christian” or “I’m a Catholic” or “I’m a Protestant” people will just do it out of habit. They’ve gotten so used to thinking that’s what they are they actually believe it.
And even when they’re not devout Christians like some fanatics, they will still defend their “faith” to their last breath. Why? Peer pressure. They were raised into believing that it’s wrong to have a free mind and change your opinion. Like “you’re either this or that, but we’re making you a this and you should never ever be a that. If you ever go against our will we shall shun you forever, and never respect you”. People are afraid to lose their friends because they still want to have their respect and all the benefits of being with the “in” crowd.
Same thing in high school: “You’re either popular or a freak and we will never look at you, let alone give you the time of day”. Basically those who don’t conform to their mind-bending, overpopulated, idiotic, cult are obviously evil and should be hunted down and murdered as their fictitious and fairy-tale like god commanded them to do. Surprisingly their God, loving everyone and everything in the world, able to control a person’s fate in a nanosecond, isn’t able to control free thought and atheists and orders them to be executed for blasphemy by the people he can control.
Church
Good proof of what I’m saying can be witnessed in a church (supposing you don’t burst into flames like the heathen demons you are upon entering the doors to this omnipresent foundation of greed and self-absorbency). Observe the “believers” in a church. Compare the amount of those who actually participate in the singing with all their might and soul (assuming they aren’t being provoked to by more peer pressure and fear of being singled out and persecuted for not conforming), I’m sure you’ll see what I mean. There is a good 10% to 90% ratio between people that are actually interested in this crap and those that go out of habit and/or against their will. Most really don’t care and are just there to go, not to pray for their sins to be washed away or for a disease to be cured. They go simply to go not to feel holy anymore.
Another thing: look at their eyes, faces, and body expressions. Do these people look like the stereotypically depicted Christian? Wide-eyed filled with holy inspiration and love for their fellow man and all that pompous bullshit. Hardly. Bored-as-fuke, wishing-they-were-watching-TV, uninterested zombies. Count how many will fall asleep or are on the edge of consciousness. Imagine a world without having to go to a place to be bored for an hour to an hour and a half.
These people actually expect you to shell out a good 20 bucks so the priest can go buy a fancy new car and say that it was a gift from god and he will use it to spread the word of his savior. They expect you to sing every hymn so loud and clearly that God can hear you. And so on. It’s the same procedure every Sunday. Go, wipe some Evian on your body, try to stay awake, put an Andrew Jackson in the tray when it comes around, eat a mass produced “blessed” cracker and drink some grape juice, shake hands with total strangers, wipe more Evian on your body, and leave to go whack off at home to make up for all the time you missed. Boy sounds like fun, count me in.
Clergy
Priests, “fathers”, bishops, cardinals, popes, etc. If you listen to a priests’ sermon during a middle of a mass you can pick out certain words and phrases that are commonly referred to. At every church mass I have attended the sermon stays the same in symbolism, just changes in words. Some topics the priest will try to debunk are: atheists, agnostics, UFO’s, Homosexuals, abortion, various other religions, spiritualism, possibility of church and state separation, and so on.
Same old shit every Sunday. Basically they run out of topics to convince the masses to believe in the further with so they recycle old ones. Religion has had nothing new added to it in general for the past few hundred years. Persecution of anything that doesn’t conform to their beliefs (Spanish Inquisition, The Crusades, Salem Witch Hunt, The Holocaust, and more recently Islam) is all they do apparently.
According to these priests, and so-called “holy men”, God tells Christians to love themselves, each other, and everything else in the universe. Boy they sure are doing a damned good job of upholding God’s will if their intent is mass genocide and death to everything and everyone they come in contact with. Bra-fuking-vo.
Another one of my problems with the clergy of this cult is their incredible greed. When the priests ask you to place a few bucks into the basket or plate or whatever, what do you think happens to it? Does it go to the hungry and needy on the streets? Just a small portion of the money, and indirectly given at that. The money goes to Christian corporations to buy new stationary and make more bulletins about their recent campaigns to stop any other belief, abortion, etc. How much money actually goes to the individual who needs it? Not one red fuking cent.
The rest of the money received goes to keeping the priest alive. Medical bills, electricity, TV, phone bills, groceries, gas money, etc. It’s not like the priest gets to live off the government completely. Believe me it actually costs money to survive in this country and just as a little bonus they aren’t taxed like the rest of us by the US government. If God loves them so much why doesn’t he get off his big fat ass and pay the bills for them so they can eternally spread the word of God? Why doesn’t he get up and give them eternal life so they can continue spreading God’s word forever? Why doesn’t he get up and kill all of us atheists and those who like having our mind free from restriction by others? And when was the last time we saw a miracle? What about the apocalypse that was supposed to occur last year but apparently never happened?
Christians will claim that God wouldn’t do any of this because of his supreme knowledge and will. How the fuke could you know your God’s will just by praying and attending church? Doesn’t you religion tell you that if you found out the meaning of life and God’s will your mind would collapse because you aren’t able to control that awesome amount of mental power and supreme intelligence? Horseshit.
Closet Disbelievers
They occasionally ask questions in their mind but never dare utter a word about such blasphemy for fear of exclusion and persecution. Sounds very holocaustic. The Jews were afraid to admit they were Jewish for fear of being persecuted so they kept it to themselves to avoid being slaughtered in front of their families. Just read the true story about the Einsatz Executions in Poland, you’ll get a good feel for what it was like.
These scare tactics obviously don’t work on atheists. Why? Because we, unlike the majority of the world that is uneducated, don’t believe everything we were told and tend to ask questions about things. Teachers in my high school always tell me to ask questions about a concept if I don’t understand it, and tell me that’s the only way to get smarter. Apparently that phrase can be applied to more than just a simple math problem or history exam.
Question everything and believe nothing beyond a shadow of a doubt. If Christians can prove to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that every shred of horseshit spewing from that butt hole on their face they call a mouth is true, I will convert. I challenge you to try to break my will to be different and enjoy thinking freely. Spanish Inquisition anyone? None for me thanks.
Atheists
Common Misconceptions of Atheists: Listen up, because this part I stress with extreme importance. Atheists are not demons, we are not the physical manifestation of the antichrist or Satan, and we are definitely not evil. How many Atheists have you heard about committing mass genocide, murder, or other such global atrocities?
Don’t even for one second call us Nazis because, believe it or not, Nazis are a hate group that still did believe in God. Proof exists. Listen to this phrase commonly chanted by Nazis:
Kinder, Kirche, Kueche.
Children, Church, Kitchen.
Nazis used to award Iron Crosses for bravery. An inscription made on Nazi rings states “Gott mit uns”, or God with us. The Nazionalsocialisteurbeiterpartei (National Socialist Workers Party), or Nazi’s for short, was not an Atheistic Party.
“An ‘Atheist’ is not a ‘what?’ An ‘Atheist’ is a person who has a lifestyle premised on the weltanschauung of materialism. That is, we accept ‘objective reality’ in living our lives and we reject any phantasmagoria of the imagination of theistic fold. We live in the real world. Theistic folk live in a world of make believe. To put it simply, an Atheist says to you, ‘What you see is what you get…’ An Atheist uses reason to solve human problems, to make his way in life, to seek happiness, to live with the human community. We eschew the irrational idea of theism”
American Atheists Definition of an Atheist:
Your petitioners are Atheists and they define their lifestyle as follows. An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now—here on earth—for all men together to enjoy. An Atheist accepts that he can get no help through prayer but that he must find in himself the inner conviction and strength to meet life, to grapple with it, subdue and enjoy it. An Atheist thinks that only in knowledge of himself and a knowledge of his fellow man can he find the understanding that will help to a life of fulfillment.
Therefore, he seeks to know himself and his fellow man rather than to ’know’ a god. An Atheist knows that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist knows that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered, poverty vanquished, war eliminated. He wants man to understand and love man. He wants an ethical way of life. He knows that we cannot rely on a god nor channel action into prayer nor hope for an end of troubles in a hereafter. He knows that we are our brothers’ keepers in that we are, first, keepers of our lives; that we are responsible persons, that the job is here and the time is now.Madalyn Murray O’Hair, 1961
Christian Devotion
Most Christians that I question about their faith aren’t even able to recite their ten commandments or defend their faith. Why? Because they’re only taught a minimal amount, or they’re taught but they just don’t care and therefore forget it all. It sounds to them that we’re insulting them and they want to come up with something good as a comeback but can only say things like “Shut up” or “You’re so full of shit” or “You’re going to hell” or “God will kill you soon”. They’re obviously defending their pride, because if their pride is broken then they are broken.
Something that’s very relatable to this occurred often back in the days of slavery in America. Slaves would bicker between each other about whose master was better, they would lie and make things up to make their masters and owners sound more godlike. They would argue for hours defending their cruel masters with the same phrases just used over and over again trying to make him look better. Basically their mentality is this: If my master looks bad then I look worse.
Same thing with Christians: If my religion is wrong, then I’m wrong for believing it and I look like an idiot. And I think that we all know either from observation or personal experience and insight just how much people hate being proved wrong and will lie and fight to the death defending their ideas and/or beliefs. Essentially an inferiority and dominance complex. People are always competing and striving with each other to be the best at everything and are willing to give everything to prove that they’re right or better or whatever the case may be. It’s occurred for thousands of years and it one of the most basic instincts: Survival of the fittest. You will have the greatest amount of respect from your peers and you will have the self-pride to know that you have beaten everyone else at even the stupidest things.
Just look at a High school. Many examples of competition to be witnessed. Females strive to look better than everyone else in order to be able to say, “I can get any man I wanted”, but rarely ever do. Sports: Pretty self-explanatory. You strive to receive the most recognition and praise for physical and occasionally mental achievements on the playing fields or whatever so you can say “I can beat anyone at ‘blah blah blah’”. This all goes back to my original theory of the meaning of life: to reproduce. Sexual dominance in the other animal kingdoms is incredibly apparent. Example: Gorillas will fight each other for the chance to mate with a female in order to prove their dominance and authority.
Similarly with humans, (although most ignorant asshole separatist humans wouldn’t ever dare to associate themselves with “filthy, flea-ridden, beastly” animals just because we have sprouted a brain, although some still don’t even know how to use it) people will fight for sexual dominance in order to show their authority and ability to be the best at everything.
Oedipal Complex
Also similar to the Oedipal complex that all people have. The Oedipal complex states that boys will fight each other and their fathers for the love of their mother. They feel that the other is trying to detract attention away from them and of course they want the attention back because it makes them feel good inside.
Freud theorized that there are three parts of the mind: id, ego, and superego. Id is associated with the immediate gratification of unconscious; natural needs and does not take external reality into account. A child may hit his brother out of anger whenever he feels like it. Thus, people must go beyond id to learn to be socially acceptable. This is where the ego comes into play. Ego intervenes between instinctual needs and external reality. For instance, a child’s id might want to hit his brother, but ego is willing to put it off until after Mom and Dad are out of the room. Superego is just a more developed ego. It is our conscience—that part of us that knows right from wrong. A child’s superego would say that it is wrong to hit the brother and stop the child from doing it.
Good quick example and jump into the human subconscious. As you can see from the passage the Id is the warehouse of all the most basic instincts and animalism in each and every one of us. Unfortunately Sigmund Freud decided this was a fault, thus showing my point about people separating themselves from the animals.
Who has created pollution on this planet? Who has brought upon the mass genocide of species? Who has been destroying this planet since day one of their existence? Fuking humans that’s who. And what could be more of an arrogant, idiotic, and insulting statement than the fact that you want to separate from your roots just because they act differently or you feel you’re better than them. It is insulting to those of us who still have connections to the original world to hear people talk about filthy animals and hunting and all the carnage they cause without giving it a second thought. Just watch people going about their lives. Sit in a public area become relaxed and follow one person at a time with your eyes. Try to pierce into what they’re thinking just by how they act, you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
Another thing: since we’re all related to the animals why is it that animals don’t display any need for religion or desire to believe in one? Because they’re fuking smarter than that and know that they don’t need it and its fuking stupid that’s why.
The single most destructive force on this planet is what? Take some time to think about this one. Human-fuking-beings. People always consider themselves as infallible and always right (see above paragraphs), and can’t stand being proved wrong, so they can never stop to look at the world and see what has happened, admitting that there is a problem with the world. Even if they do most don’t stop and do anything about it. Only a select few are able to do this successfully. Brings me happiness to know I am one of them.
That’s what makes an Atheist an Atheist? They stop and look at the world for what it is and ask themselves and others what they have done and what they can do to change this world for the better. We separate ourselves from the typical planet killer called man, as though we’re a different race, which we essentially are. We do things differently than other people and because of this we are considered demons or witches of evil and so on.
Honesty
An Atheist is rarely unable to admit their wrong doings to themselves, unlike most people who use self-deception in order to justify their actions so they can feel better about themselves. Self-honesty is the only way to achieve true enlightenment about oneself. Simply, if you lie to yourself how are you ever going to know who you really are? You’ll only know what others want you to be. Never be afraid to say what you feel and mean to both yourself and others even if others don’t really want to hear it. You’re still doing your mind a huge favor. Never be afraid to show that you are afraid or intimidated. If you cover it up all the time, how are you going to be able to understand your fears and be able to overcome them?
My feeling is that the practice of the spiritual instead of religion is far more preferable and better for you. If you base your ideas on those of other people and keep repeating them through the grapevine of time nothing much will ever get accomplished. Mass spiritualism is by far one of the biggest mistakes in the history of mankind. The spirit personally means more to yourself and helps you get in touch with yourself and become more enlightened. Thus you will be able to reduce stress in your life considerably and be able to have a much more constructive attitude towards the world. In general intelligence rates in humans will skyrocket and finally we’ll be able to evolve as a civilization.
An interesting side note: why haven’t there been any discoveries of human evolution for the past few thousand years? Religion bans the theory of evolution that’s why. They don’t want to admit that evolution happens which would negate their entire faith system.
And thus I end this essay, for now at least. More to come soon, keep your eyes and mind open. Peace out. Enjoy. Keep Atheist Pride Alive.
Lionel “The Sinister Minister” Moirez
