(November 14, 2010 at 9:59 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: What exactly DO you expect us to accomplish, Cando?
Besides the numerous atheist scientists (who didn't have to organize as atheists to get shit done) as well as the humanists who are working to better life in third world countries without strings attached (unlike that asshole Tebow who seemed to think circumcision and prayer were more important than pretty much everything else...Oh GOD! If only the foreskin were gone, these people wouldn't be starving and sick!!!).
On a really basic level, I seem to be able to get up, go to work, pay my bills in a reasonable amount of time, get fat off my own delicious cooking, maintain a decent network of virtual and "real life" friends/lovers, have ambitions, goals, and dreams, tend my garden and otherwise act like a fairly normal human being in an otherwise rather ridiculous world, and I consider that to be a daily accomplishment. And I do it without an organized "atheist" structure around me. I even hold doors open for little old ladies.
I'm trying to imagine what our "goals" would be as an actual group. Let's see...we already have separation of church and state thanks to our deist and atheist founding fathers (well, in American anyway)...
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Anyone got any ideas?
The lack of organization amongst atheists is wonderfully freeing - it gives us all the chance to do whatever the hell we want with our time and money. Each person is allowed to decide what's most important to them, and to join up with other people who feel the same, without restriction.
I've heard some theists say that atheists just want to eradicate religion altogether. Is this what you think we should organize for? Most of us simply don't care what the hell you believe as long as you're not hurting another person with it.
I'm an elitist snob, but if I wasn't, and if I were to fraternise with an infidel, it would be with you. You're smokin'.
