RE: Does anybody wear Atheist Clothing?
May 24, 2015 at 5:47 am
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2015 at 5:55 am by Razzle.)
Where I live, if you're white and don't have a foreign accent, you're assumed vague-theist/deist/atheist until stated otherwise, so there would be no point. If I lived somewhere where atheists were mistrusted, I like to think I would carry some kind of identifier, probably a button with a positive message that wasn't hostile or condescending towards theists like many atheist messages I've seen on Cafepress. I appreciate the frustration and desire for retaliation atheists in many countries must feel but personally I would remember that most theists are well-meaning, and avoid alienating the more open-minded ones with provocative anti-theist statements. I'd go for something like 'atheists for peace' or 'proud to be a kind, compassionate atheist' or 'Good without God' .
"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don't grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
