My problem with atheism

[_zeezrom]

The way atheism is portrayed across the airwaves of the Internet feels cold and uninspiring. I sometimes feel like my bedroom has been transformed from 2012 Milan to 1950 East Berlin when I walk into any kind of atheism discussion.

Maybe the problem with atheists is they have no home? Maybe they are still in the throws of a cold war?

[_John Larsen]

[_Cylon]

This is one of my favorite memes.



Also, LOL at John Larsen! Love it!

[_Tarski]

The way atheism is portrayed across the airwaves of the Internet feels cold and uninspiring. I sometimes feel like my bedroom has been transformed from 2012 Milan to 1950 East Berlin when I walk into any kind of atheism discussion.

Maybe the problem with atheists is they have no home? Maybe they are still in the throws of a cold war?

People who don't collect stamps have no home either. Non-guitarists haven't a home of their own --how sad for them.

There is nothing inspiring about atheism per se. There is something inspiring about good art, literature, science, sports, nature, etc.

There is something distinctly uninspiring about the influence of fundamentalism in public life and it is this negative emotion you are probably seeing.

The diffuse war you see is against those who wish to teach creationism in science class and those who wish to make religious notions about sexuality and gender roles a matter of public policy and so on. There is a war of ideas about the encroachment of sharia law in the UK etc.

The "East Berlin" feel you are getting is more a matter of your preconceptions and expectations than it is about an external reality.
It is not unlike Droopy's tendency to see anyone who has reverence for the natural environment as being a barefoot, acid dropping, free love flower child from the 60s. (Think painted Goldy Hahn dancing around in her bikini on "Laugh In")

Besides, only certain personalities bother ranting about religion on the internet. It is a biased selection.

Besides, most of the portraying of atheism is done by religious zealots.

[_Philo Sofee]

I have to say, I agree with Tarski, atheists are usually portrayed by the braying asses of religion fundamentalist bigots, no matter which denomination. I'm no atheist (not yet anyway), but as I read about what they think, what they do, what they acquire, I find them always misrepresented by some religious whacko who would rather be plumb crazy than masturbate in order to gain calm. And THEN they take it out on atheists for their own induced upset tightwad idiocy.....

[_palerobber]

on the contrary, i feel like our temples dot the earth...

[_lulu]

Cafeteria atheism is definately the way to go.

[_zeezrom]

Cafeteria atheism is definitely the way to go.

I'm all for it, my lavender friend.

[_Yoda]

Cafeteria atheism is definately the way to go.

LOL! Love it!

[_Tchild]

The way atheism is portrayed across the airwaves of the Internet feels cold and uninspiring. I sometimes feel like my bedroom has been transformed from 2012 Milan to 1950 East Berlin when I walk into any kind of atheism discussion.

Maybe the problem with atheists is they have no home? Maybe they are still in the throws of a cold war?

Atheism is nothing more than the matrix, or background canvas that you use to interpret the world for yourself. Atheism is a blankness of belief. How the world is interpreted, experienced and enjoyed is up to you, the individual. You create whatever world you want; heaven, hell or something in between.

Instead of a world of invented Gods, motives, purposes, destinies, must dos, must not dos, you let it all go and let life be exactly what it is.

When there is no destiny imposed upon you from outside, you are then free to let it unfold from within. That is true freedom.