The Nice Thing About Being An Atheist

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I agree. Can do all that without belief in god though. But I have no problem with your post, those things are important to me too, except I have pets, but no problem with those that chose not to either.

I was just trying to jab at you a little with the remark about pets.  I've had three dogs as pets and I handled a patrol dog in the military for awhile, so I have a preference for dogs.  I feel free now that I don't have a pet because we don't have to worry about finding someone to take care of him when we go on trips.  As far as having those things I mentioned without God, it's true, but atheists miss out on experiencing God.

You make 2 mistaken assumptions:
1. That there's actually a god to miss out on experiencing
2. That if there even is a god, it's one we'd want to experience

Obviously the lack of evidence and absurdity of the proposition would mean having to practice self-deception, delusional thinking, irrationality, possibly as far as outright insanity, and that's hardly worth the chance to...what, hear voices speak platitudes into your ear while you know that there are still children dying of starvation and disease en mass every day?

And whatever gods have been proposed are monstrous, worse than any adversaries they tend to try to point the finger at for being troublemakers. So if it spares me having my skin crawl associating with one of these fucks, I'd much rather miss out on that experience, thank ya verra much.

So don't fucking patronize us, brah.