#modernignorance

The Lie of Disconnection: Science, God, and the Infantile Rebellion of the Modern Mind

There’s a strange and loud epidemic echoing through modern minds: the confident ignorance of those who think they know, but have only skimmed the surface of life. Yesterday, I watched a video of a biologist — someone supposedly trained to observe life — confidently stating that religion does not exist, arguing that since animals don’t practice it, it must be a human invention, a false one. That alone reveals the depth of cognitive arrogance being praised today. We are in an era where ignorance is celebrated, platformed, and mistaken for insight — as if repeating a shallow thought with certainty makes it a truth.

But ignorance isn’t just the absence of knowledge. No. It’s often the attachment to outdated thinking, to distorted interpretations, to perspectives once functional but now limiting. And when someone reduces religion to myth, dismissing it because it isn’t observable in the animal kingdom, they expose not only their spiritual immaturity, but their limited grasp of what it means to be human. By this logic, science too should not exist — after all, animals don’t peer into microscopes or ponder astrophysics. So what is science then? A hallucination? A mass delusion?

What shocks me most isn’t just the shallowness of the statement. It’s that this person, a so-called educator, is being followed, praised, applauded. It’s the rise of the false elite — the educated-but-unwise — those who walk in circles, repeating thoughts like mantras, thinking repetition is depth. These are people still in pre-K in the school of life, even while wearing the academic robes of authority. Their understanding of God, of religion, of existence itself, is infantile — stuck in the image of a man in the sky, angry and punishing, molding humans from clay and sitting on a throne. They think rejecting that image is the same as rejecting God. But all they’re doing is rejecting a child's drawing of the Infinite.

And it gets deeper. I scroll down and read the comments. “I’m an atheist. I’m an atheist. I’m an atheist.” But most of them are not. What they really are... is hurt. They’re in a childish fight with the idea of a punitive father-figure god. “God never gave me anything,” they scream. “So I don’t believe in you.” That isn’t atheism. That’s unresolved pain. That’s the echo of a fractured relationship with the sacred — and instead of seeking a higher, more expanded understanding of the Divine, they walk away. But they don’t replace that absence with a solid philosophy — like humanism, stoicism, nihilism, or anything coherent. They float. They adopt bits and pieces of other people's ideas and never construct their own. They live in reaction, not in reflection.

Here’s the truth: there is no such thing as a world outside of God. The ugly, the harsh, the war, the hunger, the evil — it's all part of the system. God isn’t just in the light. He’s in the darkness too. He is not something external, distant, and separate. He is expansion, creation, destruction, and transcendence. Every single thing that exists — exists through Him. Denying that is not just denying God — it’s denying the entire universe, and yourself included.

This need to separate God from science, to place them in opposition, is one of the greatest modern lies. In truth, science is one of the purest ways to witness God. Science — when rooted in philosophy, in contemplation, in curiosity, not control — is the unfolding language of the Creator. When we study life, nature, physics, biology, we are not "disproving" God; we are tracing His fingerprints. Every formula, every law, every discovery — is the Divine saying: This is how I built it. Science without spiritual grounding is dry dissection. Religion without philosophical depth is blind obedience. But when the two meet? That’s where truth lives.

And yet... the masses — the ones who think they’ve escaped “the system” — fall right back into another: the cult of secular elitism. It’s the same arrogance, just dressed in TED Talks and podcasts. It’s the same avoidance of soul, just wearing lab coats instead of cassocks. As philosopher Luiz Felipe Pondé once pointed out, this pseudo-intellectual elite is just another face of the mass-man: loud, sure, and empty.

So what’s the answer? It’s simple, but it’s not easy.

See. Observe. Watch. That’s the highest act and also the most basic one. To really observe life is to let go of your conclusions and just let things reveal o que são. It’s to see both beauty and terror in the world and not run from either. It’s to understand that God doesn’t live in churches or equations alone — He lives in everything, if your eyes are open.

Because in the end, the biggest lie is the one we tell ourselves: that we are separate. That we know. That we are above.

But we are not.

We are in the midst of something much more ancient, more intelligent, more sacred than we can grasp. And the moment you stop trying to box it in and start watching — really watching — is the moment you begin to remember.

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