(January 31, 2014 at 3:53 pm)ThePinsir Wrote: The point of the thread: for me atheism is still new and exciting. But does it ever die down and just become a background thing?
Maybe. I became an atheist about three years ago. I didn't make a big deal about it, but once I started researching religion, etc. and came here, it was "new and exciting". Now? Not quite as much, but I still find it interesting.
I am less enthusiastic about giving my full intellectual attention to refuting the bad arguments for religion that everyone has heard a thousand times than I was when I first joined (and I know which arguments those are). Does that mean that I care less about atheism? I don't know. I guess it depends on how much you think your being an atheist defines something about you. Probably more so in a country where they are a disdained minority than one where irreligiosity is the norm. But like Minimalist said, you'll remember why atheism matters pretty quickly when someone tries to shove their religious dogma down your throat, or tries to interfere with science.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
