Why I won't found an Organization of Atheism – nor a Religion!

I have told you about our atheist meeting at the Ashram and wrote some of my thoughts to the topic of atheism into my blog. At that meeting as well as afterwards on social media, I was asked several times whether I would now start an atheist organization. The whole experience has actually confirmed me in my previous decision to never do such a thing!

I believe that the risk of such a venture turning into a full-fledged religion someday is just too high! You all know what I think of religion – and I would never want that! Oh, people said it would not be like a religion because I don’t believe in god! If you think of the beginnings of Buddhism however, that is exactly what happened there as well! Buddha said you should be your own light – today Buddhism is called the fifth world religion!

Not every religion is necessary based on the belief in god. There are many people, sects and also religions that do have a concept without god. They believe in a lot of different nonsense however! For me, atheism is not only the belief that god doesn’t exist. I refuse all superstition and with it ideas of reincarnation, heaven, karma and everything similar.

Some people told me that the Vedas, old Hindu scriptures, already contain verses which seem at least agnostic, doubting the existence of god. Especially the Rig Veda tells that we don’t know who created this world. I replied that you may not know who but it still feels as though there is at least ‘someone’ who created, right? Some people say that the concept of a world without god has existed for a very long time already, referencing several other old scriptures as well.

I just don’t see why we would need these examples! The people who wrote those scriptures, no matter how long ago, were just people like you and me. They had thoughts and they wrote them down. If you take their written words however and study them, trying to prove or find truth, you will go the same way that all religions went. You are trying to make these scriptures an anchor to hold on to, a guideline that tells you what to believe.

In my eyes, atheism can never be that. It is not something to lead people’s thoughts completely from zero for simply one reason: it is reactionary! It is not a path that you decide from step one but a way that you choose to take when you refuse the way of religion! It goes against the fake illusion of god, a rebellious thought against the order of religion. You are reacting on religion, superstition and the fictional image of God. If there is no theism, there cannot be atheism. A child that grows up without religion or the impression of god won’t be an atheist. He will just be natural.

Atheism is a reaction. And that’s why I want to tell all atheists who read me: please don’t try to find an atheist scripture for an atheist religion. Atheism does not follow a tradition, it is completely individual. Talk about your own experience, about your feelings and your thoughts. Talk about now, not age-old writings! It is about you.

No organization can bring all these different individual feelings together and create rules or a framework for them all. That again would force people to comply and not be themselves. And that is religion. So no, I won’t create an atheist religion!