So You Wanna Be An Atheist

I fit in by not fitting. Not fitting is where I fit. Doesn’t offer much comfort, but at least I realize I don’t fit in…never have…but I fit in everywhere really, no where and everywhere are home…since I have no agenda, no desire or need to believe in the “not one of us mantra”…in the high school of life, I am a brain, a nerd, a jock, a misfit…a druggie…a warrior…a shaman …a ghost…a reject…an outcast…a broken heart…an atheist.
And fuck the adage if you don’t believe in something, you will fall for anything…I believed in Jesus and heaven until I finally realized how barren, corrupt, and desperate religion has become…the wedge dividing the world…reduced to a cult of ravenous, broken people so desperate to believe in something they fall for anything…believers arrogant enough, ignorant enough to believe that their god is bigger than the rest… believers who eagerly kill to spread their god’s love…the ten commandments have become the ten suggestions…condemnation of others has replaced compassion; Christianity is as mean-spirited as South Central, Compton, East Saint Louis, Camden… Broken…
I realize the simple idea of we are born in pain, live in pain, die in pain, then become worm fodder isn’t as elegant as a Genesis to Revelation…No justice, no heaven, no reward, no forgiveness is one bleak story…even a forever in heaven without the internet, sex, and cable is better than just birth, life, and death. However, I have no problem with the power of heaven…but since I don’t play real well with others, I won’t be allowed in downtown heaven…If heaven is America, I will be somewhere in northern North Dakota…near Canada…no problem…
No god. No devil. No evil. No spirit. No soul. No eternal bliss. No reincarnation. No getting 47,000 chances to finally figure out your life’s puzzle; a story to simple for the fragile masses to believe: Birth. Life. Death. No why!
I know you don’t meet many atheists, but I don’t even fit in with my fellow atheists. I laugh when I hear my atheist brethren want to remove god from our currency. Why? What will that prove? Only make the theists close ranks.
However, being an atheist reminds me of an Oscar Wilde quote: “Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.” Since only a few brave souls agree with me, I feel I must be closer to the truth than the theists. Even if two billion Christians believe a stupid idea, it is still a stupid idea. Sheer numbers just don’t count. There are atheists, and there are people who obviously have no clue about what is actually going on.
However, I have no problem with children saying the Pledge of Allegiance with one nation under god…although I wonder how many people know “under God” wasn’t added to the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954 as a way to differentiate the suddenly god-fearing USA from the godless Soviet Union. Apparently, god wasn’t important enough to be added to the Allegiance until then…strange since the Pledge’s first incarnation was in 1892!
Definitely evolution not creationism. Obviously evolution not intelligence design. Do you know that in a recent survey by Science, when Americans were presented with the question “Did humans develop from earlier species of animals?” 60% of Americans said that they did NOT believe in evolution. While 80% or more of the people in Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, and England said that they accept the science of evolution. Of the thirty-four civilized countries surveyed, only a Muslim country, Turkey, was less likely to believe in evolution than America. Once again Bushworld is lagging behind the learning curve, retreating back to the dark ages. Hell, the survey revealed that even Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, and Estonia know evolution is real!