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The Worldwide Ultimatum: To Live the Lie or Accept the Truth

Anyone who lives their lives worrying about the well being of insignificant others is wasting their life away. Anyone who cares so much about other people is simply lieing to themselves. There are of course a few exceptions. You can be a nationalist, a good family member, or a great teammate, and not be living a lie. The key to the equation is that mankind carries out life so that all outcomes work in their own best interests. That is just human nature. It is an indisputable fact that any sane human being would prefer an expense of another person rather than of themselves. Do all of humanity a favor, and if you think that you do care about other more than yourself, isolate yourself.
Capitalism is by far the most effective economic system. History has proven this many times. The best example of this is The United States of America. You may have asked yourself at some point, why is America so much more successful than so many other nations? The answer is simple; we act only in our own favor. The first rule of capitalism is self interest. The second people start to work in other people’s favor, capitalism fails. Any moderate person might think this absurd. Take a second, and with an open mind, really think about it. If you truly are sane, you will realize that everything you do is in your own best favor. It is ok. You are not the only one. That is the way it is supposed to be. Once you or anyone else stops doing that, that is when problems arise.

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If you are a theist reading this article, I want you to open mindedly ask yourself another key question to the well being of humanity. Do you really and truly believe that there is enough evidence to support the belief in a higher power or “god”. If you can say yes to this question, you know something that a lot of people would like the hear. I am not saying that it is not possible for a higher power to exist, or that one doesn’t exist. What I am saying though is that no one should be believing in any god of any sort, because there is not even close to enough evidence to support such a belief. The best way to live life is by the facts, and for right now anyway, it is a fact that no higher power exists. You can’t just plug in any comprehendible idea and try to support it with conjured up, fake evidence. You need to have evidence before the theory or idea. The whole god thing is just a big jump of the gun, and maybe just a giant hoax. No one can really know, because we don’t have enough information to make an assumption either way.
Please, for the well being of the whole population, continue to work in you own best interest, and stop believing in things that have no evidence of existing, and the world will be a much better place.

I study biology, chemistry, and cosmology. I look into my life and see the evolutionary process. My changes so small and insignificant, but, in the future, may be powerful. I look into life itself and see chemistry. I see how everything is formed, and how beautiful life is, being built by billions upon billions of atoms. I look at the earth and see Cosmology, I see a rock floating in space, holding an abundance of life. I look at the Universe, and I see life; the life of the sparkling stars above and the life of every human being that I love and hold dearly; for we are all but a speck in the grand stage of the Universe, of Life.

Why should there be an overseer who cares about what you do? Why should there be an omnipotent being who created us then CARES about worship? What kind of small God is that? I believe that, if there is any God, that God would be looking at everything, and not just Earth. However, no proof has been found, so no belief am I to have for such a being.

If I were to tell you that I was the richest man on the planet, you’d tell me to prove it. If I told you that I had created a cure for cancer or AIDS, you’d tell me to prove it. But you tell me that a creator created this entire Universe for just the planet Earth (in only 6 days 6000 years ago, even), and I’m shunned for asking for proof?

That’s why I’m an atheist. I am not a consumer in the market of dogma. I am not arrogant enough to say that my life is important to a God (or Gods). I believe that I am a part of the giant Universe, not excluded from it.

In conclusion: What do you think? Do you believe that I am a “God-hating atheist” (doesn’t make sense; how can I hate that which I do not believe exists)? Do you believe that I am a Satan worshiper (again, doesn’t make sense)? Do you believe that I’m not “American enough”?

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.” – Abraham Lincoln