godless…

Well, I brought this up in a discussion, and figured I’d post it here.

Why, as an athiest, am I in the minority? Simple. Evolution.

Religon was pretty much founded with the intent of explaining things. Greek gods, Norse gods, Jesus, whatever, they all explain how things work. Humans, by nature, have a desire to explain things — without that desire, we wouldn’t have evolved past cavemen. As it took us a while to explain scientific method and such, we invented religon. Today it has evolved into a moneyraiser, and not much else. (In terms of organization.) My thoughts? Eventually, Religon will go away. Gradually, like the perception that the world is flat. Not in our lifetime, and not in america first (sweeden is 85% athiest). But, eventually, it will die.

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.