I am a democrat, the reason I am is very simple. I'm broke as hell. That's it, simple, easy peasy. My moral views also coincide with being a liberal also but being broke really seals the deal. If I were rich I would be a republican, it's as simple as that. It's selfish but I am selfish. I will say though that I will never be apart of republican morality that thinks it has the right prevent gay marriage, abortion, and ban pornography. I don't understand how a political party can be against big government in the important matters of economy but for big government in moral issues which are always subjective. If you're for small government, that should be it. The whole thing with neo-cons seems awfully hypocritical. At least with democrats they believe in big government in regards to big business, or at least pretend.
I take politics seriously but I get irritated with people who basically copy and paste a fox news broadcast as their political view. My line of political thinking is a mix of both parties (social issues very liberal though). But the whole typical democrat and typical republican thing only exists on cable news. That much I've figured out, when the whole Stephen Fowler thing happen on wife swap conservative pointed him out as the "typical" liberal horrible person. Likewise we point to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity as the "typical" conservative horrible person. This stuff is all really divisive and intentional to make us feel this way. Anyone who doesn't see that and really sees Stephen Fowler as the "typical" liberal or rush as the "typical" conservative need to get out and meet some actual people. The only people that act this way are people that watch too much cable news so if that's any indication that this whole party system is distraction for the public then I don't know what. So please believe in what you believe and stop making accusations of other parties, I'm guilty of making fun of republicans a lot myself and I feel bad for that, but believing in creationism is ridiculous.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Why Don't Atheists just shut up?
I've been playfully ambiguous about my religious affiliation. Mainly for job and family reasons. I've been born and raised Catholic and that was fairly dominant in my life. But to settle any curiosity I am a godless horrible atheist. The reason may very well be that I was born and raised catholic. The guilt, oh the horrible guilt. I remember attending Sunday school (which oddly was held on Monday). A weekly dose of feeling unnecessarily guilty about perfectly healthy things.
There are all kinds of questions I hear atheists get asked whenever they appear on a cable news network. The atheists always seem to do a poor job of answering these questions(except Richard Dawkins) so I thought I might be able to do better so hear we go.
Why don't atheists just shut up?
Easy, why don't Christians just shut up? The only time an atheist has spoken up was to keep someone from poking religion into their life. I think many atheists feel they shouldn't be ashamed of it anymore so they want it out in the open that we don't want prayer in school.
Why is atheism on the rise?
I don't think atheism is on the rise I think more people are feeling comfortable enough to admit it now. With people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Bill Maher, Julia Sweeney, and George Carlin it's certainly helped me feel less scared about being an atheist. I still am scared about being atheist in this society. But these people mentioned above have definitely make me feel less alone in my religious view. It has been comforting.
If you're an atheist then you have no need for morality and no responsibility for yourself.
Not really a question but something I really want to get straight. I think atheists have more need for morality in life than religious people. Because in religion people will do anything in this life as long as it gets them into heaven or whatever paradise their religion dreamed up. But with atheism we don't know what'll happen when we die, all I know is this is the one life I have and I need to make it count as much as possible and at least try to make it as wonderful for me and everybody as I can, because this is all we have. Life seems more precious to me when it's not just a means to an end.
So to sum it all up, I'm an atheist and I'm not horrible person. Atheists are not horrible people, morality is not something that the bible invented. If you think so that's fine but don't think that I'm devoid of morality just because I don't follow it. Further more don't assume I'm just confused, the only thing that confuses me is how someone can't figure out that the voice in your head is you and not God. I know it is me because if that's God in my head then he hates religion too. Which is just too ironic, or is it?
There are all kinds of questions I hear atheists get asked whenever they appear on a cable news network. The atheists always seem to do a poor job of answering these questions(except Richard Dawkins) so I thought I might be able to do better so hear we go.
Why don't atheists just shut up?
Easy, why don't Christians just shut up? The only time an atheist has spoken up was to keep someone from poking religion into their life. I think many atheists feel they shouldn't be ashamed of it anymore so they want it out in the open that we don't want prayer in school.
Why is atheism on the rise?
I don't think atheism is on the rise I think more people are feeling comfortable enough to admit it now. With people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Bill Maher, Julia Sweeney, and George Carlin it's certainly helped me feel less scared about being an atheist. I still am scared about being atheist in this society. But these people mentioned above have definitely make me feel less alone in my religious view. It has been comforting.
If you're an atheist then you have no need for morality and no responsibility for yourself.
Not really a question but something I really want to get straight. I think atheists have more need for morality in life than religious people. Because in religion people will do anything in this life as long as it gets them into heaven or whatever paradise their religion dreamed up. But with atheism we don't know what'll happen when we die, all I know is this is the one life I have and I need to make it count as much as possible and at least try to make it as wonderful for me and everybody as I can, because this is all we have. Life seems more precious to me when it's not just a means to an end.
So to sum it all up, I'm an atheist and I'm not horrible person. Atheists are not horrible people, morality is not something that the bible invented. If you think so that's fine but don't think that I'm devoid of morality just because I don't follow it. Further more don't assume I'm just confused, the only thing that confuses me is how someone can't figure out that the voice in your head is you and not God. I know it is me because if that's God in my head then he hates religion too. Which is just too ironic, or is it?
Welcome to the Uncensored Blog
I'm creating this blog for a very cowardice reason but a practical one. I usually use facebook as an avenue for my random thoughts and weird ideas. This was mainly because only my fellow college friends were on facebook. Now I have family, professors, co-workers, and job bosses that can see everything I put on. I still want to be blunt and honest about my thoughts but I want to at least be among people who I know are respectful and are mature enough to to disagree respectfully. I don't want everyone to agree with me I just don't want the immature ostracizing that can come with with saying the things I say. So those who are here and I invited I hope you are at least entertained by the weird and random stuff that comes out my head. I may be a coward but i don't care.
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