I think it’s about time that the Supreme Court finally had the courage to rule, hopefully finally, on a frr speech/ frrdom of religion case. Just because I’m an atheist does not mean I cannot or should not supprt the 1st Amendment which guarantees both. Consider being an atheist and not having the right to speak out against religion. It really hasn’t been thar long ago where states had lawa against atheism and like some others in society, were locked firmly in the closet.
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Every once in a while, I like to come back and say something about being an atheist. I know I’ve written on this topic more than once, and it might be easier to pull up an old post and freshen it, I kind of like to look back, seeing if i’ve changed much. Guess what? I’m not special and like everyone else on the planet, have changed somewhat over time. What about the attitudes of believers? Do they change much or are they stuck like a needle on a badly scratched record? I think it depends on who’s expressing the opinion and who or what they use to guide or “inform” thar opinion.
Continue readingI log into Twitter, expecting the same old thing. Nothing. There’s almost nothing of interest on that platform anymore. I think it’s basically been taken ver by establishment political operatives as well as big business. The interesting stuff, if it exists at all is either offline, or on some platform the rest of us don’t know about. It’s become a secret society of the more interesting topics to be discussed or argued over. Special invitation only.
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Okay, I’ve come to the light. I’ve left the frefge of darkness and pain ad decided to live my life in the light with the goodness of my friends and neighbors ever present. But in doing this, according to those same friends, there must be someone to blame for not only my walk in the darkness but for all of humanity’s as well. There are a lot of proplr we can blame. We can be racist and blame white people, but no, that’s already being done. How about black, hispanic or asian people.? No everyone knows that unless you’re white, you cannot be racist and since that’s been done, we need to find another devil .
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I don;t know if that I’m just used to being denigrated, being an atheist, that the volume on atheism has retreated, or that I just don’t care (and never have) about anyone’s opinion about my beliefs/disbelief. I’ve never hidden being an atheist. I don’t go around evangelizing atheism, but if the topic of spiritual belief comes up amongst friends and I’m asked, I have no problem letting everyone know that I’m a non-believer. So what? There was a time, yes even during my lifetime, when it was not so much acceptable to be a Mormon and in my parents lifetime, Catholicism was looked upon very skeptically (JFK had to actually say, in 1960 that if elected, the Catholicism would not guide his policies.) and I’m certain of you ;ppl around just a bit, you’ll find people who are prejudiced toward other religions or denominations. Consider Islam, as an example.
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Conservative Skeptic 