Think about it... What is more conceited than having this imaginary being that you've built up in your own head to be the be-all-end-all of perfectness? The creator of all things? The person who determines whether good or bad will come your way? That will decide who is "righteous" and better than everyone else? That grants eternal happiness in the place of eternal damnation? Then to pretend that every time good luck comes your way it's because YOU are so amazing and awesome that he must favor you in some way and gave you special treatment? My, how very VAIN of you.
"I passed my driver's test, praise the Lord!!"
Fuck off.
Even if there were a god, and he did meddle in human affairs, what makes you think you are so special? Why should he have "blessed" you with such a minor thing while allowing thousands of African children to starve every day?
The other facet of this total escape from reality comes in the form of badgering others for not being as "godly" as you are. Yep, you get to sit there in all your self righteous glory and point fingers at those that don't measure up to you in your head. Gay? You're going to hell, fag, accept Jesus or suffer. You're not part of my club. I'm better than you. It somewhat reminds me of cliques in high school who think they hold some power. And in a sad way they do. I always thought to myself that they weren't REALLY popular, just liked by the other people who they deemed good enough to fit into their club. If all the people who they treated poorly and who actually despised them stood up and treated them with the same disdain that they showed everyone else, they could easily make their life a living hell. I feel the same way about Christians in America.
There is no doubt that there are more Christians than non Christians in America. I do argue that many of those so called Christians aren't actually Christians and are probably deists or pantheists or some other type of person who believes in a god but not the dogma associated with the church. They are just ignorant to what those other belief systems are, and since Christianity is so in-your-face they equate a belief in god to Christianity and identify themselves as so. They don't practice the lifestyle. They haven't read the bible. They just do what is easiest because it's so accepted and revered here, and all their friends are doing it. You see, it's not TRUE belief that matters. It's NUMBERS. When they have the numbers they can control what our nation does and teaches, and before long they will have enough kids indoctrinated into true believers that it won't matter.
I would wager that if a large number of those people really invested themselves into some introspection and studying on the subject, they would quickly become agnostic if not full on atheist/antitheist. The trick is avoiding that knee-jerk reaction you get when you outright attack something they identify with. You'll notice, when you meet someone who isn't even a devout theist, they just have a vague idea of a creator, as soon as you suggest maybe they're wrong it gets personal. ESPECIALLY if they are ignorant to science and well established theories on where we come from. Education is the key. And making it clear that you aren't a better person and more important just for believing in something with no evidence to support it. We must instead teach them that being a skeptic, that demanding proof and forming your own ideas, that learning and questioning everything is the real virtue.
Faith is nothing but arrogant ignorance and gullibility in a fancy suit.
I realize this is going to evoke an automatic reaction of "I'm not like that! I don't think that way!" I don't want to hear it. The fact is that if you have prayed for any special treatment, or thought you have been blessed in any way, this completely applies to you. I have great things happen all the time. Good things happen, bad things happen. It's not a god. It's not karma. It's life, and the way we see things.
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