Before I start, I just want to clarify that I am not atheist. I identify more as an Apatheist. You can expect posts from both a liberal theist side and a liberal atheist side on my blog just FYI. Now when I talk to atheists, I will most likely be interacting with somebody who is rational and logical. Turn over to theism, and all I get are prayers and faith (of course this does not apply to all theists but the number of irrational believers is alarming). Though its feasible to understand why people have a need to believe in a higher being, that belief oftentimes becomes a hindrance to the progress of the collective humanity.
If your God cares more about worship and Church attendance than he does about people who help the sick and needy, he cannot logically be a “loving” God. If your God is willing to send you to Hell for all of eternity because you did not worship him during the course of your life, he is petty and as such, cannot be regarded as anything more than a cosmic toddler with severe insecurity issues.
I often come across people that talk about how we have to pray to God. My question is, which one? You either have to consider the existence of all of them or deny them outright. If you are a Christian and you deny Horus, you are an atheist about a specific deity. If you are a Hellenist and you deny the existence of Yahweh, you are again atheist to the Christian God.
We live in a cramped, needy world that is in dire need of a makeover. If our hands are eternally clasped in prayer, we cannot use them to construct a better world. If you want to pray then pray, but if you only want to pray then you are a failure as a human being. Most conservatives operate with the concept of worrying about the afterlife, rejecting to live in their current one. In what twisted Universe does that make any sense?
Atheism and agnosticism are both grounded in unbiased scientific findings and the way I see it, if a God does exist his language would be science. Hence, if science contradicts your religion, then obviously your religion is at fault.
Do I believe in God – yes, my God is a God of logic, reason, progression and love. My God does not require worship, he/she/it requires action. In this sense, I am atheist to conservative deities. I have no problems with religions that do not enforce their beliefs on others, but I do have a problem with those that believe themselves to be infallible and the only path to salvation. Religions are only ever supposed to be shelters for the spiritually exhausted. Nothing more. They most certainly have no place in making my decisions for me.
