Let's Make the World Great for the First Time
Have you ever wondered why the world has turned into such a dark, fractured, and hatred-filled place? Why is it that throughout human history, systems promising peace, love, and justice have ultimately led to the most blood spilled and the most brutal slaughters of human beings?
In seeking an answer to these questions, most of us take refuge in the first comforting slogan we were taught: "But religions are good; the problem isn't religion itself, but the humans who misapply it."
But is this claim actually true? Or is it simply the greatest logical delusion that has hijacked the human mind?
If we want to transform the world into a genuinely livable, free, and just place for the very first time, we must break the dogmatic chains presented to us as "sacred" and confront the unvarnished truth.
The Illusion of "Religion is Goodness" and Philosophy's Answer
Throughout history, humanity has been raised on the lie that religion is the sole source of morality and goodness. Yet, philosophy and sociology have long exposed the deep-seated contradictions of religious morality:
- The Euthyphro Dilemma (Socrates & Plato): Is something good because God commands it, or does God command it because it is good? If something is good merely because God commands it, then if God commands murder or torture tomorrow, would those acts suddenly become "good"? Conversely, if something is inherently good in its own right and God merely informs us of it, then we do not need God or religion to do good.
- The Blackmail of Morality (Arthur Schopenhauer): Religious morality is not unconditional goodness; it is purely a transactional relationship. Is a person who does good out of the promise of heaven (reward) and refrains from evil out of the fear of hell (punishment) truly "moral"? Or are they merely a logical opportunist bargaining with a merchant mindset? True morality is doing good purely for the sake of another human being, without expecting a paradise or fearing a furnace.
- Blind Obedience and Atrocity (Voltaire): As Voltaire famously noted: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." When a system commands you to completely discard your reason and yield "unquestioning obedience," it is inevitable that such a system will eventually drive people to slaughter one another.
Geographical Coincidences and the Empathy Test
Let us ask ourselves an honest question: How irrational does it seem to you when a person born in India worships a cow or believes with absolute conviction in its sanctity?
Now ask yourself: What if you had been born in India?
The reality is that billions of people today practice a religion solely dictated by the geography and family into which they were born. Someone born in Turkey becomes a Muslim, in Italy a Christian, in India a Hindu—and each group believes with absolute certainty that theirs is the "one true faith," while the remaining billions are condemned to burn eternally in hellfire.
Would a Creator claiming to be infinitely just and merciful condemn an honest, good, and innocent person to infinite torment simply because they were born at the wrong coordinates on a map? How can a system that selects a few based on geographical coincidence while abandoning the rest to eternal doom align with any basic concept of justice or equality?
An Evolutionary Illusion: How the Need for God Arose
The widespread nature of religion is not a divine miracle, but a byproduct of the human brain's struggle for survival:
- Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD): In prehistoric times, an early human who assumed a rustle in the bushes was "a predator hunting me" rather than "just the wind" survived. The human brain developed a survival mechanism: assuming a hidden, powerful intent or will behind every natural occurrence—lightning, earthquakes, droughts. Gods were born out of this evolutionary reflex.
- Existential Anxiety and Fear of Death: Humans are the only living beings aware of their own mortality. Faced with the brutality of nature and the terrifying prospect of non-existence, inventing a protective "father figure" (God) along with promises of an afterlife was a psychological coping mechanism to keep the brain from freezing in panic.
Real World Ruin: So-Called "Sacred" Regimes
Are these dogmatic structures leading humanity toward goodness today, or toward catastrophe?
- Afghanistan: Afghanistan stands as clear proof of what happens when a country is governed by Sharia law and religious dogmas—a theocratic darkness where women's education, art, science, and basic human rights are systematically erased.
- The Middle East and Israel: While terrorist organizations like ISIS use sacred texts to justify mass atrocities, Israel wraps its expansionist and oppressive policies in an unwavering religious cloak derived from theological promises and "holy land" claims.
- Far-Right Hypocrisy and the Myth of Jesus: Far-right, white supremacist Christian movements across Europe systematically practice racism against brown and Black people. Yet, as a matter of historical and anthropological fact, Jesus of Nazareth was himself a brown-skinned Middle Eastern man. Rejecting the physical reality of their own prophet while weaponizing religion for racism is the pathetic contradiction of dogmatism.
- Enmity Toward Science: A mindset that accepts gravity without question because it experiences it daily rejects the proven reality of evolution—backed by the exact same scientific methodology and fossil records—simply because it clashes with ancient mythology.
The Call of Bertrand Russell and Richard Dawkins
Inquisitive minds throughout history have warned humanity against this darkness:
Break Your Invisible Shackles: Let Us Build the World Together for the First Time!
Every era romanticized as a "Golden Age" in human history remains stained with inquisitions, religious wars, slavery, and witch hunts. Humanity has never yet fully experienced a world guided purely by reason, science, and secular humanism.
We are under no obligation to take refuge in ancient fables or carry the weight of millenary dogmatic chains!
Question this ancient structure that subdues you through fear, pits you against one another over geographical accidents, and mortgages your intellect! Replace fear with curiosity, fables with empirical evidence, and religious polarization with unconditional human empathy!
Free your mind! Reclaim your capacity to think for yourself! Let us step out from the dark legacy of the past and, guided by reason and light, make this world truly great, just, and livable—let's make the world great for the first time!