Athiesm
I am an athiest. I’m not ashamed to say it. I take a lot of flak for being an athiest. Honestly, I’m a little sick of people’s preachieness. I’m probably going to get responses saying I’m guilty of the same thing, and to a level, I am; however, I’m only doing this because I’m sick of not saying anything.
I am an athiest not because I’m in denial, because I’m doing things God wouldn’t want me to do, or because I’m being rebellious. I was brought up in a fairly religous (albiet weird) family, and for over a year tried to justify believing in religon. It didn’t work. If you’d like to have a philosophical conversation on the subject with me, please, I’d be happy to.
Athiests know that money should go to hospitals, not churches. Paying you pastor will not get you closer to God. Ask yourself, would God rather have you pay people to preach to the choir or save lives? I know what an athiest would pick.
you have an extremely skewed and wrong view of religion if you think that people donate to churches to get closer to God.
Comment by katherine — June 1, 2006 @ 10:42 pm
I suppose you’re right, but the purpose of that statement was to get people to (hopefully) rexamine their charity habits — I know that in at least my crazy whacko cult, Tithing is considered charity.
Comment by sroerick — June 2, 2006 @ 12:01 am