"Truth Doesn't Apply To My Arguments"

Perhaps as a child you remember playing some kind of game where one kid would say something to the effect of "Well I have a magic shield and none of your bullets can hurt me" after this statement all chaos breaks loose as the other child replies "well I have an even more magic gun that can shoot through your shield" as the friend snaps back "No! nothing can shoot through my magic shield" and they go back and forth until something else catches their short attention span.  I think most of us have observed this or participated in something similar in our lives. Perhaps we enjoy looking back and having a chuckle due to our childhood ignorance.

Sadly many of us haven't gotten over this childhood phase and use this same argument in our adult lives.  It is not just used from time to time but probably by the majority of mankind! "Nonsense!" you may claim "I have yet to see it!".  Well it is not all that hard to find, all that it takes is a serious talk about religion and god and you will see how childish grown men really are.

In any strenuous debate over religion the theist is always forced to make a separation between logic and reality.  Most theists are quite comfortable with this.  If you ask them "do you believe that logic and empirical evidence do not apply to god?" most of them will agree with little concern. I have heard may theists state flatly that the scientific method does not apply to god.  But usually to get to this point in the arguments contention is already high and the response comes out quite aggressively "god is beyond logic! he created it!" or perhaps "the things of man cannot be applied to god".  Most of us atheists may roll our eyes and shake our heads to this and maybe leave it at "lets agree to disagree", but I am not so sure we truly understand what this Argument means.

When a person says that "logic does not apply to god" what they are really saying is "rationality does not apply to my arguments" In other words the only way we have of determining truth and falsehood doesn't apply to anything they believe. Well that is quite convenient how isn't it?  I will have to remember that trick next time I am in a debate "oh yeah by the way logic doesn't apply to what I believe, oh yeah and the neither does the scientific method, or empirical facts" or in other words: I win because I feel like it. Sounds a lot like the child with the magical shield now doesn't it?

The clear meaning of this "argument" is simply a desperate attempt to believe in something despite reason and evidence. The last resort of some one who is cornered by logic is to claim that it doesn't apply to his beliefs. 

The most basic principle of logic is truth vs falsehood.  To say that logic does not apply to god but in the same breath say that he exists (or that it is true that god exists) is both endorsing and denouncing logic all at once. If I were to tell you that 2+2=5 is true, but truth doesn't apply to my argument all at once, you would call me crazy. Perhaps you should use your definition of insanity consistently.

The Anti-Human: Introduction

Nietzsche and I have our vast differences but there is one great message I believe that he had to offer.  A message that had never been expressed so directly and powerfully. This message is what I like to call the great diagnosis. Nietzsche's diagnosis was not a biological one, but intellectual. He claimed man kind as a sick and broken animal, but not from bacteria or a virus.  This infection is an idea. A concept so deeply engraved in men that it causes them to act against everything in their nature.

Take a moment and think about this. What if there was something that literally thrived off the slavery of mankind?  What if there was something that systematically broke down your mind and filled with with delusions?  What if there is a great parasite that lives off human blood?  And what if this thing, had infected the whole world?

You may think I am being mellow dramatic but I am here to tell you it is all very real.  This infection is what I call the anti-human.

You maybe asking your self "what is the cause of the anti-human? What does it come from? What is the motivation?" the answer: broken men are a valuable resource and are easily exploited.   If you can successfully break down a human being you can make him die for anything... Literally anything.  Country, god, race, culture, tribe, class, equality, etc... I want you to honestly consider this.  Think of how many people have died in war, and even if you don't think that war is inherently evil, think of how many people have died in vain. For absolutely nothing. Even if you endorse the war in Iraq, even if you endorse the world wars, even if you endorse all the wars America has ever been in. You cannot deny that the majority all wars have been for nothing (and in my opinion they all have).  If you don't believe me take a moment to look up the history of war and you tell me how much you think is justified.  You tell me how much of it was for anything at all.

I believe it is quite clear that it is not in mans nature to die for nothing other wise pointless random deaths, along with suicide would be rampant. No, man must have a cause, or reason to die.  Because not only is man a social and rational animal as so many have pointed out but also a morally inclined. And ever sense the birth of history ruler of men have used this to exploit mankind.