Thank God for Atheists

By Eric Fournier

Everyone's addicted to their devices. It's called the dopamine response. We're so interested in what's coming next, we don't stop to appreciate what's already here. Somewhere along the way, everything's gotten watered down and shallow. In our rush for the quick fix, we're losing our ability to think for ourselves. No matter how idealistically, I'll suggest how we might break the dreary chain of causality that's created our willing imprisonment. Despite the media's insistence that we focus on the mundane, I'll explain how we can focus again on those things that ought to matter. Belief is important. Religion is our way of reconciling ourselves to dying, but it shouldn't become so powerful that it prevents us from living. If we notice an ant crawling around on the lip of a drinking glass caught in an unending circle, we're amused at first. Hours later, when the ant continues on its relentless trek around the glass's edge, we start to get mildly annoyed. We're dismayed by how this apparently stupid creature hasn't yet figured out that it's been going around in this little circle. In fact, if we don't intercede in some way, it will likely go on like this for the rest of its life. What most of us fail to take into account, is the fact that one of the ways scout ants blaze new paths, is by laying down a pheromone trail that will aid it in returning to the colony later. If the trip was successful in yielding up new food sources, then that same trail can be followed by other members of the colony at some future point. Since there have been ants, that's a pretty good way to run a business. It's a safe bet that most of the world's ants won't end up on the edge of a glass somewhere, since such items are relatively rare in nature. I wonder what some dispassionate observer would think if they were to look at some of the things we believe. Would they laugh at our plight, or would they be appalled by our short-sightedness? Sometimes it's best to recognize the futility of going around in this big, unending circle. What if all of it were engineered that way?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982912103
• ISBN13: 9781982912109
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"