Pretty Much Sums it Up

This video has pretty much everything there is to be said in it. It's beautiful, really.

I promise more content tomorrow. So follow me now for more.

Being An Atheist

I'm surprised at the amount of people I talk to who misunderstand what I mean when I tell them I'm an atheist. It doesn't mean I worship the devil (I don't even believe in him); it doesn't mean I am a Pagan, Wiccan, Buddhist, or anything of the sort; it doesn't necessarily mean that I am part of a rising tide of youths who are sick of the religious controlling our every thoughts and actions and restricting our freedoms.

But I am.

But that's a story for another post. Today I discuss why atheism is, as a great atheist once said, not a denial of Theism but instead a close, personal relationship with reality. The great Christopher Hitchens is given credit for saying, "That which can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." This is certainly applicable in the case of every major religion whose creeds involved accepting some sort of higher power, or "God" but refused to grant any evidence beyond, "Well the Earth is kinda nice to live on, so a god must have designed it!"

Today we know this is due to millions of years' worth of mutation, adaptation, and evolution. We also know now that less than one millionth of one percent of the universe is habitable to humans. Turns out that all-powerful and all-knowing magic man in the sky was pretty inept after all.

God has hidden in many places beyond man's ability to perceive. In pagan days, God(s) was/were used to explain the rotation of the sun around the earth. Once Galileo came along, God was then used to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and hurricanes. But then once plate tectonics and meteorology came along, God began hiding before the creation of the Universe. What happened? Apparently in Old Testament times God was a fairly common visitor to the human race. Nowadays we'd have to cross dimensions just to catch a glimpse of the guy.

But soon those dimensions will be crossed. And God will run out of places to hide. The younger generation is largely waking up to this fact. But, as I said, that is a post for another day.

Welcome to Atheist Daily

A number of my followers had expressed interest in a blog pertaining to anti-religious posts. Since this was a topic which I happen to have a good amount of interest in myself, I've decided to go ahead and create a blog that focuses exclusively on this issue.

Now don't worry if you're religious and one of my followers, I won't relentlessly pursue you in a dogmatic effort to get you to become less dogmatic. In fact, I won't even mind if you abstain from following or even viewing this blog completely.

The purpose of this blog will be to explain why an atheistic life is not only justified but also fulfilling. Overall, the tone of this blog will be generally feelgood in nature. The first post will come later tonight, so follow now for more!