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Atheism and the human mind

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I stumbled on an article that declares that atheism is growing slowly and steadily in Saudi Arabia.

Together, the appearance of atheists, a growing wariness of religious controls on society, as well as the continuing lure of jihad and ultraconservatism signal a breakdown in the conformity and consensus that has marked the Saudi religious field in the recent past. It is becoming a more heterogenous and polarized faith scene.

Saudi Arabia is known as the cradle of Islam.  The cleric are powerful and religion is the way of life.  This surprised me, but it should not have.  The human mind is such

We are blessed or cursed with a mind that is constantly inquiring, filing away data, questing the improbable and impossible.  Our mind is an adventurer.  The day the mind stops questioning is the day it starts atrophying and soon the effects show on the body and we die.

Our mind is also a rebel.

I see clear parallels between our neighbours and us, always.  Ultra conservatism is on the rise all over Asia.  The backlash is inevitable.  Soon, now that the right wing stridency reaches its peak in our country, people are going to turn away from faith, get angry at folk who pitch tents on roads to hold Mata-Ka-Jagran and put on loudspeakers to ruin the sleep fellow humans have rightfully earned.

I for one will welcome that.

I hate having to negotiate roads that have been blocked for sundry Mata-Ka-Jagrans that can be held in temples.

I’d like all loudspeakers to be banned from the country. Failing which, I want them to be issued after checks and re-checks.  Hell, yeah, make loudspeaker permits stricter than gun permits in the country.  They are a deadly weapon.

Religion and worship to me is a relationship between me and God, personal and private.  If this continues, I shall become a strident atheist myself.

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