The Atheist Blogger

Thanks for the link. Very interesting and ultimately hopeful story

Thank you for featuring my story here. I'm really glad you liked it.

Thanks for the story, miss Jackie. I've always been a bit bitter about theists when they portrait atheists as in a void "descartian" world with no one to answer to them. Once saw a funny game about it, where you had a character in a small slab and the background totally black. You could go up, down, left and right. You could hit "help", and had your character utter something like "Please help me", and no one would answer. If you went to the end of the slab you would fall and the game would be over. There is no "replay" button because, in the atheists' world, there's no life after death. Quite funny in itself, but unfortunately it's the idiotic idea that theists have about atheists.

They truly believe that all the notions about community, morality, love, compassion, etc., are fundamentally christian values. If one is atheist, then one is either left with nothing, or uses every of above without conceding their "true" supernatural source, how arrogant of us!

(woke up bitter)

Thank you for reading. I actually was very hesitant to write this story, as you can see it;s very personal. But I've seen so many theists praise God for saving them and insult atheists for having no hope, that I eventually decided to write it. I glossed over a lot of the more personal bits, but I think the message is very clear.

Deterministic religious people drive me just as crazy as deterministic rationalists… like B. F. Skinner… the behaviorist psychologist.

Why can't people just admit that we make our own path with some pre-dispositions? Recently, I was very stressed out about school and my mother (who is a "born-again Christian" …God help her! Haha!) told me, "put it in God's hands and it will be taken care of". I told her that I have to work hard to do what I've been doing in college, and the encouragement of my girlfriend, friends, and family helps to sooth me in rough times.

The best part is… I can be considered (but HATE the label) to be a Christian. I prefer the term Christ Follower. And although many parts of my life are kept secular, I am still very "religious", but it is more a philosophy than a tradition for me…

Have any of you seen George Carlin's Anti-religious rant? it's on u-tube – the reason this comes to mind is because there is a part when he refers to prays be answered. If you wish your prays answered look to your self and in most cases, unlike some invisible man in the sky, they will be answered.

How can you be considered a Christian and religious but mock the very thing it is. Your mother is "born again" and you mock that so I don't see the connection?

Love…where does that come from? It can evolve from nothing because it isn't biological. It is something we all are born with an understanding of, but no one knows where it came from. Emotion and the like can't be explained through science. It's funny how certain things are just with in us (right and wrong, love, sadness, the need for others, not to harm others. etc…) but everyone thinks they are cultured. You don't have to tell a child war is bad, when you explain it to them they understand its wrong. Divorce too, kids just know its hard and sad when a "mommy and daddy don't love each other anymore". To many wild cards that can't be explained by anything other than a Creator and a Designer of us. Were to perfectly woven for chance. Maybe the human race just won the lottery billions of times in a row against all odds?

ChallengeGodOpenly doesn't seem to understand that, even if we did win the genetic lottery millions and millions of times, other species didn't. It's not some stroll down a perfectly manicured garden path, evolution. Our planet is littered with the remains of plants and animals that would have a bone to pick with a "Creator" if they hadn't all died out.