Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal, “Chris Langan on atheism.” (2024)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/06/18
Once you’ve professed atheism, now you’ve got to get God’s attention again. Once you’ve severed your soul, once you’ve put a cut in your soul and you’ve actually cut God off, now you’ve got to heal that severance before God can see you again. It takes a long time. It’s not going to happen, “Oh, well, I’ve changed my mind. I’ve decided not to hate God anymore.” That’s not good enough.
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal, “Chris Langan on atheism.” (2024)
Spooky language designed to scare and control primitive people. In no way does superstitious mumbo jumbo like this apply to the lives of intelligent, civilized humans in the twenty-first century.
George Carlin
Most semi-obscure theologians and metaphysicians, and smart people, have gone and disappeared into the dustbin of history. Their use of fear based on fantasies is common and perennial, though. This is merely another in a long line of the same type of man.
Langan’s use of “professed atheism” and ‘getting God’s attention again’ is something akin to this. The stylings on God, a soul, a purported severance of one’s soul from God.
The idea that individuals have automatically decided to ‘hate God’ — whatever that means. I mean, I agree with the generic Christian. If an individual rejects God, it would be absurd to hate something of which one does not believe.
If I do not believe in a personal God, or even a general God, what is the point of hate when indifference becomes the more rational position? Indeed, one can go even further with this.
It’s not that one has a hate for the God, but it’s more to do with resisting of, often, social encroachment on others’ freedoms to no religion by people proclaiming to believe in God. It’s a much different affair.
Langan’s use of this language, apparently clipped, posted, and unchallenged by Jaimungal, speaks to the ways in which socioculturally we’ve all been indoctrinated to simply accept without challenge both metaphysical nonsense and supernaturally-oriented fearmongering.
Anyways, super boring and predictable, next!
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