Articles on Religion
- Human Rights Council Resolution - Anti Blasphemy
- Last month, I wrote about Freedom Of Speech, Religion and the UN arguing against the dangers of such anti-blasphemy resolutions. Alas, the UN passed this resolution. It is 'non-binding' and it is up to each nation to decide what to do about blasphemy....
- An Analysis of Al-Qa'ida's Worldview Reciprocal Treatment or Religious Obligation?
- By analyzing what al-Qa'ida preaches to Muslims regarding Islam's relationship to the non-Muslim world at large, and what it states to the West are its reasons for battling it, this essay seeks to highlight the many disparities behind al-Qa'ida's...
- I'm a 14 YO Atheist And My Dad Is Going Crazy
- YOUNG MAN: My parents have been bothering me for several months now about how I turned atheist and it's getting out of hand. They talk to me for sometimes hours a night and don't listen to any of my arguments, but want me to listen them. I'm forced to...
- The Telos Drive - A Neurobiological Basis for Religious Belief
- Dr. Jonathan Pararajasingham is a British-born medical doctor specialising in neurosurgery, currently based at Cambridge University's Neurosurgical Unit in the United Kingdom. In this article, Dr. Pararajasingham, explores why religion is so universal.
- Lecture Video: Morality Does Not Come From Religion
- Morality Does Not Come From Religion Lecture by Marquez Comelab, author of The Tyranny of God organised by The Atheist Society, conducted in the Unitarian Church in Melbourne, Australia. 8th March 2011. It has always been proposed by the religious that...
- Lecture: Morality Does Not Come From Religion
- Many people believe that if you do not believe in God, it would be hard for you to know what is right from wrong. But is this true? I believe that religion is getting undue credit for something that is naturally part of human nature.
- Tactical Hudna and Islamist Intolerance
- The use by Westerners of the word hudna highlights an anomaly. Whenever journalists, diplomats, or commentators covering the Middle East use a non-English word, it will almost always be Arabic or perhaps Persian; seldom do they use any Hebrew words....
- Losing my religion for equality
- Jimmy Carter was president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. Now he has quit his religion because he finally saw one of the many faults about religion, specifically the Abrahamic Religions. They were created by men and as such, men continued to...
- Freedom Of Speech, Religion And The United Nations (AU)
- On the 24 th of November 2008, the U.N. passed a draft resolution against blasphemy. On Thursday, 26 th of March, it was passed as a ?non-binding? resolution: a step closer to being a binding resolution. In this article, Marquez Comelab, author of The...
- Culture, Nudity, Religion and Politics
- A bill is being passed in Bali. "Traditional Balinese art and dance could become illegal. Prohibitions against kissing and revealing bodies could be imposed against foreigners, destroying Bali's faltering tourism industry." Gadis Arriva, a university...
- Pope warns of a drift into a 'desert of godlessness'
- "THE Pope has compared attempts to purge religion from public life to the mockery Jesus faced from the mob. Increasingly, secular Western societies risked drifting into a "desert of godlessness", Pope Benedict XVI warned in an uncompromising Good...
- Alvin Plantinga, E. Herschthal and Stephen Gould's Non-Overlapping Magisteria (NOMA) Argument
- There is an article written by Eric Herschthal published on the 15th of December 2011 on thejewishweek.com titled: This Just In: God Exists! Or, The Latest Claims of Religion on Science . Herschthal was writing about the works of Alvin Plantinga, a...
- God Is Not A Tyrant You Bunch Of Losers!
- GOD IS NOT A TYRANT YOU BUNCH OF LOSERS!!! HE IS THE PERSON WHO DIED SO THAT YOU COULD LIVE ON THIS EARTH, BUT THEN FOR YOU TO TURN AROUND AND CRUCIFY HIM AGAIN BY TURNING OTHERS AWAY FROM HIM AND CALL HIM A TYRANT IS UNACCEPTABLE, I REBUKE THIS...
- If we believe that human beings are like sheep, then I can see the ongoing need for religions.
- One of the biggest arguments in my mind is this: Do I believe that there are people whose behaviour and actions are best kept in check if they are manipulated by the fear of an ethereal policeman (God)? I can think of examples of people who may...
- Religion in schools to go God-free
- "VICTORIAN state primary school students will soon have an alternative ? religious education lessons taught by people who do not believe in God and say there is "no evidence of any supernatural power...The Humanist Society of Victoria has developed a...
- The Negative Effects of Religion
- As everyday unfolds and we see things happen all over the planet, here are examples of how the religious and superstitious beliefs interact with the world in negative ways.
- In Defense Of Atheists Against Dehumanisation
- (In Australian English) The Vice-Chancellor of The Australian Catholic University wrote an article referring to atheists as part of a plague, an infestation. Marquez Comelab warns us against the dangers of religious groups having the tendency to...
- Videos on Religion
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- Islamists Approach Europe
- Since their electoral landslide victory in November 2002, Islamists within Turkey's Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalk?nma Partisi, AKP) have camouflaged themselves as "democratic Islamic conservatives." [1] The AKP claims to be the Muslim...
- Unleashed: The Tyranny Of God
- For most of my life, I did not question the existence of God. My wife, most of my family, friends and relatives were all born into Christianity. We can be classified as ?non-practicing' or ?moderate' Christians. We went to church occasionally. When we...
The Tyranny Of God
Paperback Edition
Is there a God? Where do the animals, plants and human beings come from? Are scriptures the words of gods? Does religion teach us to live moral lives? Why do so many people kill and are killed over it? How should we live our lives if God exists? How should we live it if God does NOT exist?
This book explores the truth behind our beliefs in God and the propensity of human beings to be religious. In an honest attempt to seek the answers to life's deepest questions, I probe into how life began. I then progress to investigate the true nature of religions and their impact on our lives and the rest of humanity.
The main purpose of this book is not to argue against religion. Rather, it tells our story and how we have come to oppress ourselves with the tyranny of our own beliefs. I wrote this book to include everything I discovered to be relevant in my search for the truth, not just the truth behind God and morality, but also behind us and our existence. Instead of reading this book with the expectation that it is trying to prove the tyranny of God, I would like to recommend you read it as a story book: as a book that tells the story of humanity from the Big Bang.
REVIEW
"While Comelab's writing is always moderate in tone, its message clearly undermines current distractions with accommodationist arguments towards presumed religious "moderates". It is written with the fresh confidence of a young man who has had early success in his adopted country and only recently come to realise the truth of atheism. For those like me whose only worry about Atheism has long been its faultering progress, Comelab reminds us that much of the energy must continue to come from those who have more recently learned the truth. He seems more than bright enough to soon progress to seeing atheism not as an end but as a starting point to the kind of understanding that should enable us to work towards a future incomparably better than any heaven the faithful can imagine."
- TONY SMITH (AUSTRALIA)