Non-Sacred
Scientism
Non-Sacred Scientism holds
that science proves that there is only a material world—that
what humans sense and can only know
is this material world.
They hold that
the Abrahamic Big
Story is a confused jumble
of contradictory stories. The Abrahamic tradition is
bizarre, fantastic,
and impelled by a wild imagination.
For some, cultural studies reveal that all religions are
rooted in the psychedelic experiences
of a given culture. The word “supernatural” denotes
a dissociative state similar to a psychotic episode.
At the base of belief, then, is truly
an actual opiate. Each culture has a substance that drives humans
crazy,
be it an actual herb, intoxicant
or scary
story.
(This is an amusing
twist on Karl Marx's famous anti-religion saying that, "Religion
is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless
world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation.
It is the opium of the people.")
For Non-Sacred Scientism the supernatural tales
of religious narratives in the Abrahamic Big Story are best understood
as products of humanity’s collective childhood.
Just as children are prone to wild exaggeration and
misinterpretation of everyday things, such as shadows or thunderclaps,
so are Abrahamic
Big Stories products of an immature humanity.
Science,
for them, is the language of mature adults
who have control over
their thought processes.
For Earthfolk, the significant truth in this
perspective is that becoming mature has more to do with understanding
and mastering
one’s
emotions than simply gaining knowledge. The
Non-Sacreds would, however, argue against an
emphasis on emotion,
stating that thoughts
control emotions,
not vice versa, as we Earthfolk hold.
For Non-Sacreds everything human has
a material
base.
Humans are a matter of biochemistry, electromagnetism, and
the laws of physics.
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