Religious ideas have sickened the collective mind for millennia. I feel like religion has permeated every field of modern thought, from science to politics to psychology, always looking to ‘fix’ something or someone, always looking to cure, to save, to shape people into a mass of conformity. The roots of religion are so ingrained in the collective mind that one needs tremendous energy to move away from it and become sane and free. Religious morals and ritual are seen as the norm and the measure for sanity, when the opposite is actually true.

When you realise that billions of people actually think of themselves of being sane, when in fact they are diseased with hate, death and destruction—ready to punish, to torture, or to kill just to defend their imagined little god—you get a frightening view of the world, which indeed makes for a sick world. Meeting religious ideas (not only organised religion but also new age spiritualism) with critical thinking is the only way out of this madness. Why the human mind is religious is irrelevant. Theorising about it will not change anything; only opposing dogma with intelligent thought will. Our voices must grow louder both in real life and on social media if we want to see change. There is no shame or guilt in opposing religion, and there is no reason we should tolerate it any longer or keep our voices low. Please don’t apologise for being sane! Being unburdened by religion is true freedom.