There Are Some Daft Ideas Out There

Because people cannot understand reality,
they make it up, and then sell it to others.
This is called belief.

If belief made people content, happy and generous of heart, then belief would be a good thing. But believers are often aggressive, and ostracise those who do not believe.

When people become zealots in their beliefs, they blame others for not believing – it was called blasphemy*, and now it’s hate crime. Everyone is blaming someone else for not believing in their dream. Then we get to the word ‘heresy’: opinions profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted.

There are some dangerously daft ideas out there.

People were put to death for not believing – it was called the Inquisition.
“There’s nothing new under the sun.”

If a believer hates us for not believing, where does that hatred lie?

*The word “blasphemy” came from Greek, and also from Old French “blasmer”, from which the English word “blame” came.