So, I recently wrote that it was okay to criticize Christians. Good for me. There may be some out there though that would ask the question if it’s onay to criticize Atheists? Of course it is okay. Remember, atheism is just a disbelief in god(s) and anything else anyone espouses is up for criticism in the exact same way a believer of any faith may be called out.
A friend on Twitter recently posted a question that I didn’t think I wanted to answer on that platform. I thought it deserved a little more than a tweet or even a thread, so I decided to address it here. Not that this will be an especially long post, but I think that the query deserves a little more time.
A friend recently told me, out of nowhere, that she didn’t think she could be an atheist any longer. I waited for the inevitable “because”. It seems she is no longer able to stand up to being socially ostracized. She also believes she didn’t receive a promotion at work, that everyone thought she was in line for, because she was an atheist. Yes, she wasn’t a hidden atheist, as some are; but she also didn’t proselytize atheism to anyone she met. Yes, people around her knew she was an atheist, but that’s the extent of it as far as I ever knew.
Does being atheist make any of us better human beings? If, let’’s just say in America, if we were majority atheist over any religion, would we be a better country to our neighbors than we are today? I don’t think so and I have no but I also have no reason to think that it might. Atheism is just a non-belief in god(s) and doesn’t inform us in any other way. Every political or social belief a person may have who is an atheist, is in addition to their atheism, not because of it.
A short post for today. If you. go over to letter.wiki, you’ll see the beginning of a conversation concerning what is referred to as the “Atheist Schism”. That’s the reason this post is short. My fingers are tired typing.
Here’s the link, if you are interested at all. Comments are of course welcome/
Conservative Skeptic 