RE: What do athiests do in there every day lives?
September 2, 2010 at 3:31 am
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2010 at 3:32 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(August 31, 2010 at 7:04 pm)goalie Wrote: How are do atheists use the knowledge that evolution exists in there every day lives. Can you tell the difference between an atheist and a religious person when you walk down the street or even when speaking to someone? What makes us different?
Other than procreating with the hottest woman I can find (doing my part in natural selection) as often as I can, I don't see how it has anything to do with my life beyond acedemic discussion. What makes me different is that when people ask me if I believe that god exists, then I say no.
I also don't proletyze (beyond talking about the subject, like I do here - but that's not the same as going door to door asking if people have been "saved").
I don't spend any unnecessary time at church (beyond advancing my first directive listed above).
I acknowledge all religion as fiction - (and not even good fiction at that.)
I really can't think of it being much more complicated than that and I was even embellishing a little.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
