Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist
Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist
The Two Types of Atheists
I am a political scientist, master in political science but I have been a computer systems analyst since 1975.
I'm saying this not to give you a wallet, simply because currently on social networks you can get experts on any subject and fact checkers are the court at the end of the world, with Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who is the investigator, the defendant, the rapporteur, the prosecutor and judge, the executor and the commentator on social networks.
So, having said that, let's talk about why there are two types of atheists, where the first type, the best known, is the lazy atheist, has no arguments and is always the amateur skeptic, not the scientific skepticism that demands the thesis and the refutation, according to the techniques of scientific research and scientific methodology, then scientific skepticism is not just stubbornness or animosity, it is the tentative answer to a question accepted by science for its importance and relevance to civilization, with the exception of myths and religious traditions that cannot be violated or pre-questioned as part of the taboos that the community elected to be sacred and treated only by those authorized by the community to treat and remake such beliefs, under penalty of enormous social punishment that can range from discreet ostracism to social exclusion and the worst of all punishments: which is social invisibility.
The second type of atheist is the scientific atheist, one who started out being religious, then went deeper into religion and finally ended up with atheism. The Catholic Church knew this 1800 years ago when in a council it decided that the masses should be in Latin, and the first sacred texts were printed by the movable type press invented by Guttemberg, the first printed work was the bible, by Martin Luther, and soon many priests were burned even after death, like Wiclyffe, others were executed, excommunicated like Luther, because they wanted to spread the reading of the bible, because it is a work that was in open edition for two thousand years, so it crossed the line of the time without an editor and without an organizer, therefore, it records the versions of all her writers, and the amalgamation of cultures, myths and legends mixing the cultures of the peoples where she was influenced.
Do not say that the bible does not serve as a historical book, no human history is exempt from ideology and myths, such as the Vietnam war, the invasion of Iraq, the CV19, the history of AIDS, everything is contaminated by the interest of the hegemonic country, and the narratives that most favor the dominant side, such as the discovery of Brazil officially by the navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral, but he was in |Brazil before him, Cabral, at least three other navigators through Brazilian lands, such as Pinzon.
Now the theory about religious atheism; because all priests are atheists, and their followers do not even suspect it, it is the consequence of the danger of the increasingly deeper knowledge of the Bible itself, which shows the layers that are being deepened at each step in the cultural knowledge of the reader and the result is that religion leads to atheism; if Karl Marx and Stalin knew this, they would force the communists to read the bible enough to then become convinced atheists, on the contrary, they closed the religious temples and persecuted and killed the religious, for never having studied the bible.
There is no text or image recorded on pendrives, nor on computer hard drives, just as in our memory in the human brain there are no names of people, images of places, nor knowledge or any information, if you open the brain you will see a lot of blood , detect electrical impulses there, and biochemical substances: so where is the information?
Let's do it by steps. The computer and the internet are organized in layers. So information enters, is stored, and leaves computers, and the internet; are layered deeper and deeper, from the sophisticated to the simple, until an image or text or complicated information about engineering or quantum mechanics or a movie or video or music is reduced to a set of logical symbols. represented only by the binary symbol: zero and or one, called digital symbols.
Similarly, in our brain, everything that physically exists in the brain are just electrical impulses and biochemical reactions in the right places in the neuron or neuronal synapses, which in the computer or the internet are the electronic logic circuits that are just the low level of current represented. by zero, the highest level represented by one.
The lower layers of the computer operate half a dozen simple instructions like: copying zero or one; find an address where the zero or one is; group together a set of zeros and ones called units of Bytes,that is why memory and processor are measured by multiples of bytes such as: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabytes, petabytes.
The other less low operations are: comparing the bytes, and modifying the bytes, shifting each bit of information to the right or to the left, since a byte is a group of bits, a bit is each zero or one individually; and, group or separate bits or bytes.
In the immediately superior layer, the computer's logic circuits record an even less simple sequence of instructions to be executed by each electronic circuit predetermined by the manufacturer, which never change, are arithmetic operations and microcommands.
In the next layer, computer programmers have the freedom to combine and recombine and establish a sequence of execution of instructions from the previous layer, and this is what we call programming a computer.
In the layer following the one described above, comes the layer of the interface between these programs and the human being, which is the programming language where the translation is done so that the computer understands what was written in the programs so that the electronic circuits know what to do. what to do sequentially in the program and where and how to process data by inputting and withdrawing data.
The next layer would be the abstraction layer, where that set of bytes is interpreted decoded for the human being to perceive how letters, numbers, colors, images, sounds, are the interfaces of the data that become information recognizable by humans through the screen or printing on paper. .
This interface between the human being and the machine is analogous to the one that exists between the human brain and the tongue, the ears and the eyes, which transforms those electrical impulses in the brain and the biochemical reactions of the brain into lights, images, words, sentences. , external emotions for the human being.
The rituals of religions are made up of layers like on the computer, where the beginner is first introduced to the rituals without fully understanding the usefulness of each gesture, of each repetition of words and attitudes, such as baptism, such as visual symbols, on social behavior. , sexual, learns the rules without pre-questioning, for then being admitted to the group can have access to the deeper teachings.
The novice is being enthroned and gradually begins to build for himself his version of the doctrine learned, then the new critical layer begins to form in his mind and begins to select and eliminate and add heuristic elements in his vision and his personal version. of religion and spirituality.
He begins to discuss and question the behaviors and doctrines, begins to make his own judgments of the admitted behavior and those that are not convenient from his own point of view.
So the last religious layer comes from the full view of the cultural domain and intellectual interpretation of the holy scriptures where and when he succeeds in separating the timelines between when the holy books were written and the proper adaptation to analogous behaviors and adaptation to the culture. of your generation, and your country, and your community, to your laws, then big questions arise that need to be properly resolved, many of them transform and new versions of already overcome understandings that were prior to the new intellectual and current needs to make sense in the present moment.
The last layer then comes with the adaptation of contemporary culture and scientific advances that need to be included in their ability to justify their doctrine and their faith, so the new atheist begins to discard the first layers of initial absorption that entered their mind without resistance and without criticism of the first moments, soon afterwards he builds his last compiled version of his religious doctrine, eliminating the supports based on riddles and myths and excludes the last layer of taboos and is left with the essence of all religion that is just the naked truth that nothing can be sacred and that everything is just nothingness, the immense nothingness for which we were created, coming out of nothing and returning to nothing, and that our lives have no special or particular meaning, and that everything is an immense simulation in the universe where the universe itself is an immense system of simulations where reality is as concrete as the information represented in the brain or in the memory of a computer: the zero and one penalties, which only make sense within a particular frame of reference, called knowledge and the will to be and to believe.
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