Athiests

Atheist Attitude to Religion

• Atheists and Myths
  
  Atheists are just angry with God. Atheists often point out the logical inconsistencies of many religious beliefs - such as the belief both that God is all - good and all-powerful, but he somehow also allows evil to exist - and believers use that to conclude that atheists are angry with God.
  
  The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modem man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. Man is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that man is on the bench and God in the dock. ~ C.S. Lewis
  
  As an atheist I couldn't care less what you religious people believe - personally, L think you're all braindamaged to have not let go of the beliefs I had as a six year old. But in the course of my day, I couldn't give a rats ass about any of you and what you believe in. I don’t want to hear it. I don't want to be aware of it. I don't want you to force your beliefs on me or my kids. I want you to keep it to yourselves. Religion shouldn't play a part in politics, the office, the classroom and especially in regards to how the country is run.
  
  
  If you step over that line, then I will make it clear where I stand. Religious people can call me rude, lacking in morals, etc, but honestly, I can't see past the shiat you're displaying far enough to allow me the ability to care what you think.
  
  I don't need you to tolerate me, I need you to keep your personal beliefs to yourselves.
  
  A very long time ago, when people had no clue how the fark anything worked, they all sat around making up reasons and hoping there was something out there watching over them, providing for them, and protecting them.
  
  They continued to believe this despite all of the evidence to the contrary. Well sure that flood killed almost the entire village, but I was spared. The gods protected me!
  
  Then religion became organized and powerful. So powerful that when science started to show us what was really going on, religion fought it to the point of murdering the people who were making important discoveries. Burning them and their books. Or in more civilized areas just making them outcasts or jailing them.
  
  Today, thousands and thousands of years later, when most people are no longer afraid of the dark, these religions are still trying to hold us back.
  
  What makes them still relevant? Well, for starters, it's about the only acceptable way to legally discriminate against entire groups of people. You can hate gays, heathens, and folks of other religions (Or no religion) because you LOVE god and you're only doing what your book and your leaders tell you to do.
  
  It started out providing comfort, then became about wealth and power, and now it clings to life by shear hatred of anyone who is different.

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