Friday, February 10, 2012
I am an atheist.
I am an atheist. I do not hate your god. I do not believe in your god or your devil. I don't believe in you heaven or hell. I don't believe in your angels or demons. I don't believe your supernatural savior or visions. I do not believe you have the right to rule the world. I do not believe that it's my job to disprove your claim. I do not believe you truly get your morals from your holy book. I do not believe your religion or any religion should be involved in our secular government. I do not believe you have the right to tell who gets married and who doesn't. I do not believe that you or your religion should have any advantage over anyone else. I don't believe my tax dollars should fund your religious events. I do not believe you know what discrimination truly is.
I do believe in equal rights for all, not just those that agree with me. I do believe everyone should have the right to marry the one they love, not just those with the same sexual preference as me. I do believe in taking care of those that can't care for themselves. I do believe that everyone should have the education they need to make a life for themselves. I do believe everyone should have health insurance no matter what condition they have. I do believe the elderly should be able to afford the medicine they need to live. I do believe that everyone should be able to believe or not believe in any god they wish without fearing their lives and the lives of their family. I believe that the burden of proof lays with person or persons making the claim. I believe everyone should be able to live peacefully in this world together.
You say I don't believe in anything, yet when I tell what I believe in you dismiss it because it doesn't fit with what you were told. You say I'm attacking your religion when I'm only trying to make you realize that my thoughts on religion are just a valid as yours. You say I haven't read the Bible when I'm quoting from it. You say I don't understand it when I point out what it says about slavery. You say I'm not read the Bible as a book, but how else would one read it? You say you get your morals from the Bible, but you pick and choose what you follow from it. If you truly get your morals from the Bible, how do you dismiss the slavery and killing those the Bible says to kill? You I must have faith to understand your Bible, but your faith is claimed to be a gift from your god.
You claim I hate your god when I've already told you I don't believe he is real. You claim that I must have been hurt in my childhood and that explains why I dismiss your god. I'm sorry to inform you of this, but my childhood was very normal and happy for the most part. I look around and see you degrading, discriminating, and insulting me simply because I don't believe your religion should have no special treatment. I don't fight for the religious. I don't fight for feminist. I don't fight for the homosexuals. I don't fight for a certain race. I stand up for everyone, not just a certain group. We all live on this planet and we all should fight for another, not against each other. I believe we can live peacefully in this world together without attaching one another because of different beliefs or lifestyles. When we stop fighting each other and start working together, we can accomplish the unthinkable.
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