Hello and welcome to the adventures of your everyday atheist! I stand for social justice and am completely pro-equality, but I strongly disagree with the tumblr-type social justice warrior bullshit. Also, my ask box is always open. No but really, it is open to anything and everything.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Can Tumblr enforce this? This is awesome!
these are pretty good rules for always
What if there was a child whose parents forgot to tell him that Santa’s not real? The other kids probably told him, but what if he believed anyways and didn’t even ask his parents about it because he was so sure? What if his parents then never told him the truth because, well, he never asked? And then what if he still believed in Santa even as an adult? And what if he continued to make excuses when Santa never shows up? The excuses could sound reasonable at first. For instance, Santa didn’t show up this year because my wife and I don’t have kids yet and Santa only gives gifts to good little kids. Then what if he continued to make up excuses, even completely ridiculous ones, because he really liked the idea of a jolly old man riding around on reindeer with toys that little elves made for all the good children? Or because he couldn’t handle coming to terms with something that he’s held so dear to him and was such a wonderful and important part of his childhood actually being one big lie?
Now I think I understand both why it is so difficult for people to change how they think about God, and why it is so stupid for them not to.
Liking an idea a lot and disliking having to cope with that ‘my whole life has been a lie’ feeling are incredibly illogical reasons for believing in an idea. Atheists point this out all the time. However, when you’ve put a great deal of emotional and psychological investment into an idea, it’s also very difficult to just give it up all of a sudden. That never occurred to me as much before. My religion was something I just grew up with, hardly at that, and then grew out of.
Spock rules
#startrek#atheism#love
I just don’t quite understand how someone could apply critical thinking to religion and still come up with the conclusion that there was a talking snake who convinced a rib woman to eat a cursed fruit which doomed humanity because some asshole God thinks knowledge is evil, for instance. Sure there are bound to be different conclusions. I just don’t see that one as particularly logical.
I think atheism being a minority view though has a lot less to do with what conclusions people come up with than that. There’s the community feel of going to church together, the heresy/blasphemy/etc. associated with criticizing religion, the support of thinking some God is watching out for you instead of doing anything about world peace, the fact that it’s been around for awhile and is considered tradition, and so on and so forth.
The “logic” of the catholic church.
From Preacher to Atheist - A Freedom from Religion Foundation Podcast
Jerry Dewitt was a pentecostal preacher for over 25 years before he realized that he was an atheist. He was the first clergyman to go through The Clergy Project. To him, the concept of hell (in any form) was hard to make sense of from his belief that God loved everybody. Over his career his theology had to keep changing in order to maintain the cognitive dissonance until it eventually dissolved. Here, in the style of a born preacher, he describes the 5 basic stages of his theology, how he lost his faith and how he’s using his old skill set to now spread the word of reason.
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was.
blame your own lack of knowledge—not science
This is amazingly accurate.
(Source: thetrueatheist)
The god we create
“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” -Aldous Huxley
Think, question, keep it skeptical.
