Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/"No such thing as atheists."/reply (4)

That is a huge part of it, but i most definitely stand with the absurdity of the whole "atheist" position. That is, for my entire life, i've not believed in a god. My father is a minister and my brother is actually pretty fundamentalist (ack). And on sunday, they went to church and i didn't. Dad and I talked at length about history of xianity, what parts of the Bible have any historical validity, if the myths were influenced by other myths - the same kinds of things I did in school when I went. The only time I said to myself or anyone "I don't believe in god" is when asked. The only time I thought about the concept of a god, is in these kinds of discussions. It never did then, nor now, permeate my life the way a belief in a god would permeate a believer's life.

I don't walk around staring at the sun, 8 light minutes away and saying "wow, a god didn't do that'. I don't talk to a dying person and say "wow, a god isn't going to be waiting for you".  I don't walk up to people and say "Happy non god day".  Simply because a god not existing is fully irrelevant to my entire life. I don't like religions that decide they are all into framing my life - but that's not "god" or even "religion" is politics and power.

I've never once felt a reason to argue with anyone that a god or god like thing does or does not exist. I've never thought there was value in saying "you are stupid/ignorant/irrelevant cause you believe in something that is clearly not real".

and in that sense, i have a very hard time understanding the likes of Hitchens, Dawkins, and even PZ who is more tame than the others, feels his position is superior, he just doesn't see a reason to challenge others who are "believers".

So yeah, i am bothered that there is a label, but I'm more bothered what that label represents and says about me, and you, and any other who is an "atheist".