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Interview with Darwin Bedford, the atheist who wants God expressionless.

I commencement came across Darwin Bedford on an image board. I didn't know who he was, just a strange guy wearing a pink T-Shirt where yous could read : « If Jesus returns, kill him over again ». But Bedford was more than simply a meme : I contacted him and found out he was an atheist activist in Canada, and that he chosen himself The Atheist Messiah. For years, he's been creating dozens of depression-tech websites to spread his words against Christianity, notably through essays such as Jesus is a no-show, the Pope is Humpty Dumpty, and Why god is siding with bin Laden. He even opened a zazzle shop to sell the T-shirts…

I decided to discuss with him. Hither are his uncut words.

First, who are you ?

Darwin Bedford. I was given the proper name David in Northward Vancouver, Canada, where I was built-in in the center of the previous century. Both my parents were real people, as opposed to supernatural beings–my female parent an Anglican, my male parent an atheist. I didn't really pay any attention to religion until I was confronted with the idea that people believed that a god was responsible for creating the world. I totally rejected the thought on the spot, in fact, I was very upset at the notion. I recall the incident clearly. I was walking home from a hike with my friend on a cute sunny twenty-four hour period when my friend said "Isn't it wonderful how God created the trees so green and the sky so blue." I was xi years old and this was the first time that I was presented with an caption of how everything came into being.

Somehow I just knew that that couldn't be true. I asked my dad well-nigh information technology in the car with my female parent and siblings present and he explained "Some people believe that God created the world and some people don't." Then my Grade six teacher explained to the class what an atheist was.

That Christmas I told my parents that I would no longer open or accept any gifts from anyone, as information technology would suggest to people that I support the idea that God made the universe.

Then in Class 10, I started writing my name as "Atheist Dave Bedford" on all my tests and library checkout cards and etc. The teachers didn't know what to do with me every bit I refused to stand up for the Lord's Prayer in the morning. They positioned a desk for me at the back of the form then no 1 would come across me not standing up. It led to me condign a social outcast. In high school I was asked if it was true that I followed 70 year old ladies home and raped them–considering that is what their female parent had told them that atheists do.

I started blogging on the Internet in 1995. In 1998, I registered the domain name atheists.net, my first spider web site. So, you tin see that I've been doing this for quite some time. I like to think that I've been pushing the envelope for guild dropping religion, only there are at present thousands of antitheists on the Internet contributing to the effort. For nigh xx years I branded myself with the same "throw-away-the-cantankerous" t-shirt, just now I have over 20 shirts upward at www.666shirts.com. I'm non retired yet, only when I am, I promise to aggrandize my efforts regarding my spider web sites.

If the precedent messiah were fake, why should you be real ?

I'thou non certain which precedent messiah you lot are referring to. If information technology is Jesus the Christ, well that's only a fairy tale that was passed downward through the ages. The story of the Christ messiah may have started with Horus the sun god and travelled around the Middle East and surrounding area. Historians are now confirming that a Jesus of Nazareth may accept never existed since there are no records of him until more than a hundred years after he was claimed to have died.

I know that I am real because when I pinch myself, I can feel it. I am non actually recognized equally a messiah — just a messiah wannabe. A messiah according to my Webster'due south dictionary, could mean "whatever leader and liberator of whatsoever oppressed people". Since I am trying to atomic number 82 people from the oppression of their religion, I am a existent messiah.

In 1998 I changed my internet publishing name to Darwin to reduce the risk of an employer firing me. I was already calling myself a Spiritual Reality Therapist. In 1999 I as well declared myself as the Atheist Messiah considering no i at the time was owning up to the role. Later I added "Administrator of Reason", "Destroyer of Faith", and "Supreme Antitheist" to my title. Yes, I know that there are others out in that location that are more than deserving of my titles.

And why are you so mad at god ? Were yous once religious ( in « Apology from Christedom », you seem to be mad because the foreskin of your penis was cut for religious reasons ).

It is nonsense to ask "Why are you so mad at god?" because anything said in the context of a god being real is only that — nonsense. I'k not mad, I'thou just trying my hardest with my mere wherewithal to have people not to get downwardly that road (that gods be). It is not only incorrect and misleading but it is so dangerous and wasteful.

Equally I already explained, I was not religious from the start (something that is true for everyone); nor have I ever been religious. The closest I came to religion was reading a Yoga book that explained that my trunk was the temple of my soul.

Information technology should be illegal to mutilate a person's body without their consent, including those whose are not old enough to give their consent. My older blood brother's penis was left lone, but by the fourth dimension I was born, the religious had gained some influence in the matter.

Religion has been a thorn in family relationships throughout my life — another reason why I come beyond equally hating God.

Do y'all consider all believers to be mentally sick ? As a « spiritual reality therapist », how do you plan to cure them ?

Everyone one needs some spiritual reality therapy at some point in their life. Remember the one-time African adage "It takes a whole hamlet to bring up one child." Curing people that believe in the supernatural takes education, cooperation with others, and patience.

Too, according to my Webster's dictionary the word "oppress" means "to treat with unjust harshness or to cause to experience mentally or spiritually burdened." Religious people are mentally or spiritually burdened because they accept to follow their perceived God's wishes in order to exist rewarded and not punished in their afterlife. They also have to spend a neat deal of their time praying and serving their church, non to mention contributing their hard earned money to their church building too. My therapy mainly involves telling them that they don't have to exercise that. There is no life after expiry, death is the aforementioned as before you were born, and that they are living their just life so enjoy information technology in the confines of reality.

Your website has some philosophy to offer, such as formulation of « the simplicity of beingness ». You seem to want to testify that being an atheist is not only denying god, merely something else ?

Atheism is merely the absence of belief in any gods. I personally call back that one should not fully and completely believe in anything considering when you do you are no longer open up to further learning and choices.

When I was in high school I was repeatedly asked "And so what practise you believe in so?" At 17 years of age I wrote downward my thoughts which became the bases of my "Simplicity of Existence" post. I have revised information technology every decade or two since then. It needs revision now because information technology has misinformation regarding entropy. It has at present come to light that life came into beingness a outcome of entropy playing out and is also the driving force of evolution.

Hither's what I believe now. The true essence of the universe has existed forever and I mean information technology did not have a kickoff and that is because time is something other than what we empathize information technology to be. Fourth dimension is just a limitation on motion of mass. There probably was at to the lowest degree one Big Blindside. We will never know the size of the multiverse earlier the time when flesh becomes extinct. Keep in listen that only the "now" has ever existed, and that that the "at present" is never going to leave of existence.

I find that I sometimes accept to be a spiritual reality therapist to scientists likewise. Mankind will go extinct sooner or later and no trace of mankind e'er existing will prevail. This will well-nigh likely occur before we are able to communicate to other life entities on other planets. I don't call back that we will ever be able to communicate at greater than the speed of calorie-free and that means we won't be able to accept any meaningful communication with other life forms elsewhere in the universe.

We should therefore concentrate our efforts into preserving the planet as our paradise for as long as possible. This means no praying and more time spent on the sciences.

Y'all wage a real war on the spider web, notably by registering numerous domain names, answering mails…. is internet the new place for spiritual warfare?

Undoubtedly the Internet has taken over for sharing of ideas. At the time when people believed the world was flat universities were the place to substitution ideas. Then came the printing printing, it was a vast improvement but people with coin still had too much control of what was expressed. With the cyberspace that all inverse and its effectiveness is a vast comeback many fold.

If Jesus returned and was killed once again, don't you think it might have the very outcome y'all don't want to happen, ushering a new age of an even stronger Christendom?

Not to worry, Jesus was only killed in story. If it was to come to be believed past people that Jesus returned and was killed once more, it wouldn't add that much to the story. Nor would it that God created his merely girl and sacrificed her too.

If you lot accept never tried to create a organized religion of your own, you lot volition find that it is a very difficult puzzle to come upwardly with one that volition interest people, and have them convinced to spread it to others. L. Ronald Hubbard, an American science fiction author who developed Dianetics and founded Scientology was

reported to accept said that "If you really want to make money, then start a religion." Nonetheless, doing so is far more hard than writing a striking unmarried.

Have you ever convinced anyone ? Nobody stops being religious considering you desire him to?

If I recall correctly, from reading their emails to me, that I may accept turned a couple of teenagers abroad from religion, notwithstanding, I don't call back anyone
expressing that I saved their life from their religion. Having said that, I do believe that myself, and others, have prevented people from being infected by a religion-virus. They may have been, had we non expressed our distaste for religion.

Can you tell me how to be a happy atheist?

Yes, don't tolerate people telling you how to behave in accordance to their religion. Be fully expressed whenever anyone tries to shove their religious beliefs downwards your throat. Recollect before you conform. And finally, try to contribute to what you retrieve is correct for others.

This is item really one of my health rules. Given that nosotros are evolved every bit a social specie, similar wolves in a pack, we need to contribute to the welfare of the pack. If you perceive that you are non contributing, so something will happen to your ain well-existence to make your life shorter (so as to make information technology easier for the pack to survive equally a whole). I'm talking nigh millions of years of evolution of internal programming of your mind acting out. This is similar to "Do unto others every bit you would take them do unto you." Yes, religion isn't all bad, religions accept some truths within them merely the paranormal has to be thrown out.

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