"আপনি ধর্মবিশ্বাসী নন, কিন্তু অন্যদের বিশ্বাসকে একটু সম্মান দেখাতে সমস্যা কোথায়?" - সরব ধর্মবিরোধীদের প্রত্যেকতেই এমন কথা শুনতে হয় অবধারিতভাবে। কথা হচ্ছে, ভিত্তি-প্রমাণহীন এবং প্রায়শই ক্ষতিকারক বিশ্বাসকে শ্রদ্ধা করতে হবে কেন? আর তাছাড়া আমার ধারণা, বিশ্বাস ব্যাপারটি যদি হতো একেবারেই ব্যক্তিগত, এবং সেটির প্রকাশ ও প্রচার প্রকট যদি না হতো, তাহলে অবিশ্বাসীরা তা শ্রদ্ধা না করলেও অন্তত রঙ্গ-পরিহাস করতো না।
প্যাট্রিক কন্ডেল কথা বলেন খাপখোলা ধারালো তরবারির তীক্ষ্ণতায়, লক্ষ্যভেদী শাণিত শব্দ ব্যবহার করে উপস্থাপন করেন জুতসই যুক্তি, সঙ্গে থাকে ব্যাপক ব্যঙ্গ আর কঠোর কটাক্ষ।
Your faith is a joke নামের ভিডিওতে তিনি বলছেন:
... So yes, maybe I could show a bit more respect. The only fly in the ointment is I don't actually feel any respect. I have tried, I really have, and I feel just terrible about it, but it just isn't there. I suppose I could lie to myself and pretend for the sake of people's feelings, because we all know how delicate and tender they can be these days, but the bald truth is I don't actually care about their feelings at all, not even slightly. And of course I realise that should weigh heavily on my conscience, but luckily my conscience knows when it's being bullied and manipulated, so it doesn't care either. Mу conscience knows that there's no earthly reason for anybody on this planet to respect religion in any way.
Indeed, purely on the evidence religion itself provides in such regular abundance, there's every reason to actively disrespect it to the point of outright abuse. And wuite frankly, the fact that religion gets so little abuse compared to what it really deserves, I can only attribute to the unbelievable tolerance, restraint, and plain good manners of atheists and secularists everywhere.
So, if you are a religious person, and if you're thinking of demanding more respect for your beliefs, please try to bear in mind that you and your religion are already getting way more respect than you have ever deserved.
Your faith is a joke. Your god is a joke. He's so absurd he's an embarrassment even to people who don't believe in him. And he, and you, still have it all to prove. So far, no proof has been forthcoming, nor is it likely to be, as we all well know, so respect, I'm afraid, is out of the question. The best you can hope for is amused incredulity, and that would be on a good day.
People say you can only truly understand faith when you have faith, which I take to mean when you've suspended your critical faculties and hypnotised yourself into believing a load of fascist nonsense about your eternal soul, then you'll understand faith. Well, I can certainly believe that.
Faith-peddlers like to put themselves beyond question by claiming that their faith transcends reason, the very thing that calls it to account. How convenient. Yes, faith transcends reason the way a criminal transcends the law.
The word "transcendent" is very popular with religious hustlers because they never have to explain precisely what they mean by it, other than some vague superior state of understanding more profouond than mere reason, which is crude and simplistic next to the subtleties and profundities of belief without evidence.
If you hear a senior clergyman (and you will) using the word "transcendent" to explain the nonsense he claims to believe, then you know two things: 1. he doesn't know what he's talking about, and 2. he doesn't want you to know what he's talking about either.
Faith doesn't transcend reason at all. Faith sidesteps reason. It runs away from reason, because reason threatens its cosy bubble of delusion, so faith disqualifies reason...
অডিও ভার্সন (৩ মেগাবাইট)।
লক্ষ্য করুন, ভিডিওটি সাবটাইটেলসহ দেখার ব্যবস্থা আছে।
ডাউনলোড লিংক (৩৯ মেগাবাইট)
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