Shauk

Well, I don't really consider myself Atheist as well. Altho I suppose it fits me a liiiiittle better than agnostic.

See, me, I just dont give a crap.

There isn't enough hours in a day for me to concern myself with such trivial things.

Trivial? but Shauk, this is the question of the ages! How are we supposed to understand our origin if we don't discuss religion?!

Well, its simple to me. I didn't believe in any higher power when I was born, I also didn't believe in Santa Claus, or the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy. These were all characters and concepts imparted upon me by my parents, who had it imparted on them from thiers, and as such, are little figments of society. Society also thinks of garbage every single day, this stuff is processed and digested every day from minds to mouths, from writing to tv. We are our own self fulfilling little prophecies.

I dunno, I don't care about the origin, nor the destination, nor having a reason to make the journey, none of that has ever, nor will ever, make me tick, its not why I put my pants on in the morning. I dont need to try and validate my existance, nor cry myself to sleep not knowing who or what was behind the grand combination of events that got me here. The journey is all that matters to me. I know my time is limited, I cherish my interactions with people beliefs or not, good and bad. because its part of the journey. whether or not I accept or reject you as a human being I wish to associate with, I still respect you as a member of the Human Race. Nothing more, nothing less. Unfortunatley, with 6 billion or more people I wont meet, nor agree with all of them, all the same, its no reason for me to have a deity, or kill in the name of one.

My mother, as religious as she was, turned me away from the path of religion without realizing it by teaching me that for every answer given, there is another question to be had, to never stop asking questions until I was satisfied that I knew what there was to be known about any given subject

but if you take religion and apply this, I'm given 100 different accounts, pointed to 100 different religions and always met with a dead end at the questions "well then where did God come from?"

I held on to this question for YEARS. then I took a simple history class. an 8th grade history class. In covering civilizations, from aztecs, the romans, the vikings, the mongolian empire, i began to realize they all had dieties, and not that THIS part matters, but often, thier deities became scapegoats or justifications for wars.

I started firmly believing that if the world stopped participating in religion, they'd probably stop being a warlike race of life. Humans, and only humans, worship dieties, and humans only have wars.


now, churches aren't totally evil, we know this, they start with thier good intentions, they impart good intentions, but people get visibly LIVID when you put down thier deity of choice, even in this day and age, its spurs them into ANGER, a primitive emotion, and its like honestly? why fucking bother participating in having such beliefs if it is prone to make you act less civilized as a human being?

honestly, we should have stopped being fucking Neanderthals ages ago. Now people are just Neanderthals with AK-47's and Carbine rifles who yell HOO HAA
or whatever.

I dont care who claims atheism as a trendy whatever, its a common sense thing to turn your back on such an outmoded and disproven belief system.

so, fuck pride, fuck religion, fuck segregation. If we all want to be members of the human race we should just stop trying so hard to be unique in contested areas.

how so utterly utopian of me.

furthermore, to not believe in a Higher Power doesn't instantly make you without moral value. You can still have a very high respect for human life. Have good manners, tastes in the arts, and not be disloyal, or a thief for example.