OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS (From Email)

From My Email ^ | 25 Feb, 2006 | POCH SUZARA

[Salem]

OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS

Our world is wracked with malevolence and embroiled in violence not because of too little, but because of too much religion. Indeed, religion has always been and still is in the business of multiplying hate rather than be with the efforts of dividing peace and love and grace for the human race.

The Christians do not understand their own Bible. The Muslims do not understand their own Koran. In fact, if both believers took the trouble to read and understand each other's holy book, they would learn that their scriptures are based upon older sources written by primitives who were more at home with horoscope but not the telescope or the microscope. Sacred books should be about dignity of the human community, and not about contrary beliefs that inspires enmity or hostility.

To those of us who have no religion, it is frightening to visualize that the Christians, the Muslims and the Jews can now, with nuclear weapons at their disposal, reduce our planet into a lunar landscape. A civilized way, no doubt, to solve at the same time, the problem of human population explosion with a bigger and wider and higher explosion.

Bertrand Russell wrote: "More than half of the population of the world is under-nourished, not because it need be, but because richer nations prefer killing each other than keeping poorer nations alive and helping them to achieve a higher standard of living."

I said it before, I say it again: if we were all atheists we could learn to live together in peace with all men. I am myself proud of atheism because in the history of the mankind, there never was a war declared by atheists against other atheists. Indeed, as atheists, we know that humans are no different from the animals, except only by a little. We atheists, however, do not want to throw that little away. We hold on to our sense of common humanity. In the meantime, the preparations for religious war are only making poor people in poor countries become poorer.

It is time for religious believers to stop making a mockery of what human life should be. It is time to stop wasting precious resources against each other in purposeless hate and futile violence. Bertrand Russell said: "There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal, as a human being to human beings: remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new paradise; if you cannot, nothing lies before you but universal death."

Far worthier than the Muslim family or the Christian family or Jewish family or Hindu family or Buddhist family is, in fact, the precious human family whose continued existence is in doubt. It is time to love and appreciate the one and only real purpose to life, and that is, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, we must leave this world a little better than we found it, at least in the humanitarian sense, or there is little reason for our having lived.

Sincerely,

POCH SUZARA

Bertrand Russell Society, Philippines

poch.suzara@lycos.com

Feb. 25, 2006

[Salem]

Dear Valued FRiends and Peers

As I recently informed you, I found out my site concerning the war on terror, America At War was listed in Ibn Warraq's work, Leaving Islam - Apostates Speak Out (hat-tip to Leapfrog), including my email address. Ibn Warraq, and the bulk of the testimonies in his book from those who have left Islam, have careened from one extreme to the other, rejecting all spirituality and embraced atheist humanism, a religion unto itself. It is depressing reading.

As this book has begun to enter the global informational stream, I have begun to receive emails such as the one listed above in its entirety. Time prevents me from answering these things in the manner which they deserve; yet there is much wisdom, knowledge, and those with the time here at Free Republic.

Please take the initiative to assist me in defending our country, our faith, and the truth of radical Islam, against these naive critics, cynics, and magical thinkers, in the Arena of the War of Ideas.

I will direct the author to this thread.

[Salem]

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AMERICA AT WAR
At Salem the Soldier's Homepage ~
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Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....  by PsyOp
One FReeper On The Line  by SNOWFLAKE
The Clash of Ideologies - A Review

[Gordongekko909]

Ibn Warraq, and the bulk of the testimonies in his book from those who have left Islam, have careened from one extreme to the other, rejecting all spirituality and embraced atheist humanism, a religion unto itself. It is depressing reading.

This sort of thing doesn't really surprise me. This guy is going from the mind-crushingly oppressive restriction on thought that is Islam to... whatever he wants, because he can. Freedom, if you will. You know how if you open up a hole in a balloon with a lot of air pressure in it, all of the air just rushes out and flies all other the place? That's what's going on here. This dude and his buddies have just escaped Islam, and they want to be totally free. Until they decide that they actually do need to believe in something. They'll calm down eventually.

Give them time. The most important thing is that they aren't Mohammadens anymore.

[Salem]

"...Give them time. The most important thing is that they aren't Mohammadens anymore."

Well, AMEN to that.

Thanks for your comments. You are right.

[edpc]

I am myself proud of atheism because in the history of the mankind, there never was a war declared by atheists against other atheists.

Right. They just settle things in undeclared wars. Stalin's purges and Mao's cultural revolution are all I need to know about "peaceful" atheists. What an ass.