Please both atheists and theists, approach this blog with an open mind. I am not a troll.
An atheist loves his fellow man instead of god. An atheist believes that heaven is something for which we should work now – here on earth for all men together to enjoy. An atheist believes that he can get no help through prayer but that he must find in himself the inner conviction and strength to…
She Prayed for 5 minutes today! Thats like, 10 more minutes than yesterday!
I thought I’d start this little confessions part of the blog, because well confessing to things and feeling guilty over them have followed me into my atheism even if I’m no longer Catholic!
Confession #1- I’m not a good atheist. Every night I go to bed and pray to God to please be real, life would be so much better with him/her.
I used to want to be a nun. Not even just as a little girl, but all throughout high school I wanted to be a nun. Then I discovered the reason I wanted to be a nun was my disinterest in boys. In college I discovered that I wasn’t interested in boys romantically because I was a lesbian. I began questioning my religion. It was hard. It was something I had believed in since a little girl, becoming an “atheist” is a slow process for me. I became agnostic, and settled for that because out of all the beauty in the world, all the patterns, and majesty that surrounded me in nature, and art; their had to be something more, something bigger that we can not comprehend as humans. Slowly this belief has been dying as well. I think I’m atheist, as my mind tells me the existence of a God is silly, but my emotions, the human part of me refuses to give up believing in the last fairly tale I’ve ever known. I’m stuck as that 6 year old kid who doesn’t want to believe her parent’s when they tell her Santa Clause isn’t real; it’s depressing. I’ve been taught that atheists believe in science, that science was their God, I hate science, so therefore I hate being atheist. I’m beginning to learn though that atheism is the absence of belief in anything, and while many atheists might use science to back up their justification in believing a certain way, it’s not necessarily that way completely? Sorry for rambling and not making any coherent sense. Opinions?
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| How do you justify your beliefs as a theist or atheist? (Edit: | Sorry to confuse any atheists, what I meant was as atheists do you believe science is your religion or God? Or is that a mistake made by others who don't completly understand atheism?) |
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Another classic Christopher Hitchens quote. For video of the speech this quote is taken from click here.
Reason to me, is the defining characteristic of being human. Reason is a tool of the enlightened. Not simply the learned who see what others have done and go their way. The enlightened reasoner constantly learns and will never deal in absolutes or mysticism. The reasoner will not belittle, hate, or commit violence. A reasoner is always able to doubt or disbelieve. A reasoner will concede in an argument when they are compelled by logic and truth. Let reason prevail. Let truth triumph.
