Sexed-Up Atheism

In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins says that pantheism is really "sexed-up atheism". The good Dr. means that when we say all of nature is God, then really nothing is especially God, so in effect God does not exist as a person. This reasoning is correct. The only difference between atheism and pantheism is the sexy idea that nature is God, or rather, Goddess. Always Goddess.

Following the Goddess comes all the Gaia worship, "animal spirit guides", etc. etc. The popular pantheistic thing is just a quasi-literate form of deep ecology plus New Age. It's pretty shallow.

Who will create a real religion of science, establish sexed-up atheism as an authentic, rational spiritual path? The world needs sexed-up atheism in a big way.

The world needs a bright path out of the current superstitious miasma, the swamp vapor that keeps us stumbling in the dark. The spirit of unreason is the root of all evil.

But logic and science alone are just not sexy. Along with data and rationality, we humans need what we call spirituality: a sense of mystery and wonder. We need smells, we need bells, we need candles and incense.

In addition to this, or in concert with it: PETA and a wealth of other advertisements show that sex sells like hotcakes in a Boston winter.

Both men and women come for sex ads: women because they want to look like that, and men because we want that. No one has used sex to sell religion yet.

We don't need gods, but we do need religion. We need a religion of reason with a great body. I nominate Jennifer Connelly (who stars in the USA-censored film, Creation)!