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WHAT IS ATHEISM?

Book Summary by: Melanie Engels     

Original Author: MELANIE ENGELS
WHAT IS ATHEISM?Did ‘God’ look like man or like a dinosaur in the dinosaur days??? I’ve asked this question many people and
always, before I get a haphazard answer, they give me a bewildered look. Considering there were no human beings in those days nobody knows - yet, God is supposed to be the same in all eternity. This fact alone made me realize that the ‘God’, or ‘Allah’, or ‘Brahma’ most people envision in their mind as the most powerful being that lives ‘upstairs’ in heaven, is but fiction. Humans were not yet developed in the dinosaur days, had not yet evolved from whatever creatureas a result of genetic transmutations, - and who knows what the population on earth will look like in another million years. When the brain and the nervous system evolved reactions evolved too toward the various impingements via the nervous system the mind registered. The sort of evolutionized, sophisticated brain humans have today developed over million of years from a simple impingement that was felt and reacted to by the mind. This is comparable to the computer. In its infant years the computer was not as sophisticated, highly advanced kind of electronic device we’ve today that lets us make contact with other computers in remote parts of the world within seconds, and by various means. It is not some kind of ‘god’ that makes it possible but developed human brains added two and two together, then four and four, then eight and eight, and so on to arrive at this complex machine of today, and it all started with the simple abacus. Why is it so difficult for people to accept the fact that the Prime Mover, that super, most sophisticated computer system, which regulates the solar system also regulates human beings – not some super human personality in the heavens clothed in a white gown, long beard, sitting on a throne, with a black book on one side and a golden one on the other!! Our advanced way of thinking should tell us that! What our brain concocts is send out in vibrations. Negative thought vibrations eventually arereturned to the sender. This would agree with the verses at Psalm 7:15-16, “His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall return upon his own head. He made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.” There’re many people who believe unspoken words‘God’ cannothear therefore they’d be save from punishment or consequence of their evil thoughts. Not so!! Proverbs 15:3 tells us: “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.” And at Ecclesiastes 12:14 we read, “For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” The writers of these verses understood the laws of nature very well, particularly the Law of Reversal. Hence, any sinful thoughts would eventually find its way back to the sender, and any good and benevolent thoughts emitted will likewise return to the sender.Hence, people that emit thoughts of justice, virtue and peace in their heart would be rewarded with the same – all on account of the Law of Reversal, and those with iniquity in their hearts will receive their just reward. Because so many people on this earth send out hateful, sinful, vengeful, and greedy vibrationsthese vibrations accumulate, and the greater the number of iniquitous people the greater the wrath righteous people emit towards these hypocrites and evildoers. Revelation 16:1 supports it thus: “And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.” And Romans 4:15 reminds us that it is the ‘law’ (the Law of Reversal) which makes it happen, “Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.” In conclusion, natural laws are marvels of nature and one of them is attributed to a mechanism that brings about reversals. The Law of Reversalis the most important law affecting human life. Humanity has yet to understand and live by this law if it wants a more peaceful existence for the future. In that respect humans are the real gods that can bring this about, but not without that Prime Mover, this mechanical device of nature that moves a brain vibration toward its naturally attracted end. Socrates believed in a multitude of gods. Now you know why. (The Prime Mover, or God for lack of a better word, has the whole cosmos in his ‘hands’, and nothings can ‘move’ without a mover, not even our thoughts.) The god that most people picture in their mind, cannot think, feel, or care – this need to be done by humans – the good gods. Hence, the mediator between ‘father’ and ‘son’ is the ‘spirit’, or brain vibrations, but the Prime Mover is the ‘father’, the ultimate faculty to move the interaction – and this constitutes my Atheism. Occam’s Razor is a philosophical principle that says that an idea or entity should be explained with the fewest words possible. Explaining my understanding of Atheism I’ve used this principle.More in Melanie Engels book ‘The Cosmic Hierarchy and Its Endless Variety’, available at Amazon.com, ISBN 1-4196-1632-3.
Published: December 01, 2006
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