(September 8, 2012 at 6:29 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Religion is like a penis. You can have it, you can enjoy it, you can be proud of it, think it's the best one out there, that's all fine by me. But the minute you try to force it on me, I'm going to do what I can to get rid of it.
I would also add: Just don't wave it around in public. And never, ever, force it onto a child.
@OP: It's been said that trying to organise atheists is like herding cats, because (to quote Prof Dawkins) "they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority." Not to mention you risk ending up with a faceful of bloody clawmarks.
Thus I for one balk at being urged what I "should" do as an atheist. The difference between atheism and scepticism has already been pointed out; just as Star Trek fans are a specialised subset of the entire sci-fi genre (not to mention the whole human species
), so atheism is merely a specialised subset of scepticism, dealing solely with god claims. Fundies hate this but it is the default response to theism; if there was not theism, atheism would not exist.Perhaps consider this your first clawmark.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
