I often find myself having conversations about religion, during which I, inevitably, am asked why I am an atheist. I then take a measured pause and reply,
"When I look out into nature, society and the world, I see it's great complexity and beauty; the chiseled elegance of the Grand Canyon, the wonderment that is the northern lights, and the raw, inspiring power of a tornado shredding through an unneeded trailer community.
"But, I am then forced to reconcile these splendid occurrences with the fact that their creator, if their was one, is the same being which brought you to be. You being a person so moronic as to question the logic behind not believing in an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent being that created everything we experience in six Gregorian calender days, but was then so utterly exhausted that it needed to rest for 24 hours to regain it's godly strength.
"The fact that you, or anyone beyond the age of six, accepts any of that tripe as fact and is so impassioned by God's mystical touch that they repeat it to others, claiming to be saving their enchanted magical ghost - otherwise called a soul - is proof enough that there is no god."
2 comments:
I feel the same way. I was raised Jewish but haven't been to a place of worship since I was 13.
I've been reading the Bible lately and the more I read the more I feel it's filled with shit.
Religion is meant to teach decent moral and social graces which is all well and good. But if you have a good upbringing and good values you don't need some book or some guy telling you how to act.
Preach on bortha!
OMG ditto.
When I answer that question, I like to throw in the unbelievable level of selfishness that accompanies believing that a god created this infinitely huge and still expanding universe, of which we are but a spec, solely for us.
Talk about being a little self absorbed.
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