(October 29, 2010 at 7:42 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I was 10 years old when I last prayed. It was then I realized there wasn't someone up there listening. Too bad it took another 13 years before I really became comfortable with being "bad".
That's how I felt for the longest time. While I knew I wasn't a believer like everyone else, I was afraid of the social taboo of the "evil atheist." Now that I have a better understanding of atheism, the social taboo doesn't bother me anymore.
"If your god has to make peace with me in my final hour when he has my whole lifetime to prove his existence to me...do you think I should bother?"
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
