7 Points of a Godless Life

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I am sick of black and white religious thinking. "If you're not directly accountable to God, there is complete anarchy and no consequences to anything!"

Bull. Shit. Obviously there are consequences in the form of laws. We especially need laws in order to overrule God when religious people feel they have the right to do whatever the fuck they want to people. But also, we have a conscience (most people do, anyway). I'm accountable to me, and I'm my own harshest critic.

Theists touting this nonsense either have no conscience (possible, it does happen) or else are mistaking their conscience for some magical property. They are justifying to themselves why they don't do certain things by pretending it's to please some celestial father figure. But ultimately, you're not doing bad things because you don't want to do bad things, and this is very easily explained scientifically.

Time to grow up and take responsibility. It's like adults who are still children, who can't think or function without someone telling them what to do, think and say. I see the journey from religion to atheism (or even just deism) as a metaphor for growing up. It is unfair that indoctrination requires you to "grow up twice", when once is hard enough. I didn't have to do this second growing up for religion, but I did in a different way, thanks to another kind of "indoctrination".