I don’t despise believers, of any faith. Nor do I turn their sincere belief into some joke or pun. The reason, as many of you already know, is because I, too, was once a believer and struggled with that belief for a long time before I finally stopped wrestling with the idea of belief and realized that I could no longer believe. Atheism, as I have written before, was not a choice, but a conclusion.
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The topic seems silly, doesn’t it? Surviving Atheism? This is the 21st century, isn’t it? Aren’t we a more tolerant, accepting species than we have been in even just a few decades past? I used to believe so but then I grew up watching The Jetsons, and was certain we’d all be in flying cars by this time. Here we are, in mostly he same old internal combustion engine driven vehicles and yes, trying to survive atheism.
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I don’t think of atheism as a sword. In fact, I rarely talk about my non-belief, even in these pages. For me, atheism is a personal choice (as I’ve written before). just as personal as someone’s religious beliefs may be to them. Not sacred in any way, just personal. I don’t have a need to evangelize atheism as I think that any person of reason will eventually come to the same conclusion that I and millions of others around the world have come to: There are no god(s) looking out for us in this life and. although I cannot prove it, I doubt there’s anything after this life as well.
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Conservative Skeptic 