The atheist and the priest

The atheist and the priest

By : Freeyad Ibrahim

“Between ours,” said the atheist to the clergyman, “as though you were my confessor, I’ll declare to you I am a man of plain sense. I am not in love with your Jesus who went about preaching renunciation and self-sacrifice, a master’s advice to beggars.
Renunciation for what reason? Sacrifice for what end? I have never heard of a wolf sacrifice itself for the good of another wolf. Let us stick to the nature. We, who are the top, should have a higher philosophy. What is the use of being at the head of affairs if you see no further than the end of your nose? Let us live happily. Life is all we have. That man has any further life is something that I flatly disbelieve.
You urge me to ponder my every action because later I shall be called to account, and when? After my death. What a fantasy! It will take a cunning judge to catch me after my death-;- a ghostly finger stirring a handful dust.
We must acknowledge the truth, discard all else, get to the bottom of things. We need to have a nose for truth, burrow the earth for it, and seize hold of it. I stand four-square-;- immortality of man is a daydream, a soothing promise.
God is a grotesque humbug.
To renounce the things of this earth for paradise is to throw substance for shadow.
Did I exist before my birth? No.
Shall I exist after my death? No.

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Freeyad Ibrahim
Netherlands
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