The View of God from my Anti-theist Bridge: Ease

Religion is an easy way out. Everything is structured for you; no engagement of critical faculties is necessary.

“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.” (Bertrand Russell)

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” (Richard Dawkins)

The doctrine, prescribed through faith generally, with prayer and worship taken in large doses, is chronically passive.

·       Faith has no prerequisites as such, but you should have a yearning for comfort through apparent structural coherence.

·       Prayer is wishful thinking, attempting to pass the burden on to the Creator who, quite simply, is being asked to perform miracles. The one who only prays is simply avoiding action.

·       Worship is voluntary enslavement in the service of an ultimate dictator.

There is nothing proactive involved with any of these. They are set up to provide a reason and purpose for your life. You were created by a supreme being and in return you worship and obey him. What could be simpler?

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. [...] Somebody else must be responsible for my well-being, and somebody else must be to blame if I am hurt. Is it a similar infantilism that really lies behind the 'need' for a God?”  (Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion).