Atheism

I recently wrote an essay exploring why I believe science and religion are inherently incompatible at a fundamental level. This isn’t just about creationism vs. evolution. It’s about truth-seeking, evidence, and dogma.

As a LaVeyan Satanist, I approach this from a position that prioritizes rationality, indulgence, and self-honesty over faith and obedience. The essay challenges the popular narrative that the two can peacefully coexist without contradiction.

I’d love to hear opposing views or additions, whether you agree, disagree, or want to expand on it.

Here’s the full essay on Substack (no paywall):
https://open.substack.com/pub/oscarazrael/p/why-science-and-religion-cant-coexist?r=6v3r0a

I'm ooking forward to the discussion.

Hateful shits are protesting and showing up at town halls because they don’t like Muslims. The Attorney General is “investigating” to find some sort of excuse to not allow the mosque. (Funny, he didn’t have time to investigate the rampant child abuse in state foster homes I reported….)

I’m not a Muslim, but Muslims should have the same right to worship as Christians. They aren’t even using the fig leaf justification about noise complaints/the call to prayer that they are up in Dearborn. This is an attack on the same First Amendment that protects our rights as nonbelievers.

this is something that really bothers me. i'm wondering if others have the same annoyance:

whenever i hear about people who supposedly died and came back and reported seeing and experiencing an afterlife, all i can think about is how death is irreversible. quite literally nobody has ever died and then resurrected. reanimation hasn't been observed a single time throughout all of human history. what happened instead is they were actively dying and their brain was reacting to shutting down. "of course," you say reading this. but so many people accept the premise that this is remotely possible by not rejecting it immediately and that is the most frustrating part about all of this.

it confirms and demonstrates to me that humans are resistant to being fundamentally challenged even in the face of absolute certainty. most things in the universe are not absolutely known, but death is the rare, and perhaps only, exception. death is permanent in its natural occurrence. there is no 99.9% of the time, there aren't any other ways to be dead (literal death), every single living thing will die. period. ...unless humans figure something out.

so yeah it bugs me when people even entertain the idea that there's something worth discussing or listening to regarding claims of "coming back from death." like there are skeptics and people who are willing to listen to these assertions. ...why? there is, literally, no chance they are describing an existence after death. death can't be reversed. when a person appears clinically dead and then regains consciousness, guess what, they weren't dead regardless of medical technology saying they were lol. we just aren't able to detect the smallest indications of life.

/rant