Karma Isn’t The Answer Either

It’s funny how one broken brick can lead to an entire wall falling down…

One of the first aha! moments I had after letting go of my god delusion was the realization that leading one’s life according to the laws (?) of Karma isn’t much better.

The Stoke-On-Trent Humanist Group has it partly right:

These people are deluding themselves. Karma is an Eastern idea, popular in sophisticated quasi-religious philosophies like Buddhism, and is a way of dishing out false hope to the down trodden and wretched without the need to invoke a god.

False hope. Sound familiar?

What’s also familiar to me is the idea that the good and bad stuff you do is being recorded somewhere. Only, instead of gods doing the tallying, the universe somehow is. Make no mistake however, that you are being judged. Everything you do goes into a score book which will be used to determine your reward (coming back as a more enlightened human) or punishment (coming back as a dung-beetle).

I think a lot of people who let go of gods replace them with mysticism of this sort - the supernatural idea that, somehow, the universe has taken a personal stake in your moral behavior. To me, karma sounds a lot like sin.

Let’s stop the madness and give up this perverse idea that someone or something is watching us and judging for the purpose of determining where we fit in after we are dead.


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July 12, 2008 · Filed Under Atheism

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One Response to “Karma Isn’t The Answer Either”

  1. SHG Webmaster on July 12th, 2008 3:10 pm

    Thanks for the pingback!

    You have some very interesting and insightful thoughts here in your blog.

    Just to clear up any confusion though it’s “Stoke-On-Trent Humanist Group” :)

    Evils of the spell checker perhaps?

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