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I promise you, I really am a happy, non-bitter atheist. I do know some atheists are kind of well...how do I say this...argumentative. I rarely, if ever, post on the atheism sub-forum here because I just don't care what other people do enough to argue for the billionth time why everyone religious is an idiot and how they're wrong and blah blah. I don't see it as my business. Oddly enough, I find religion interesting from a sociological standpoint.
My tale is simply that I never felt adequate proof or reason to find a certain religion and/or belief system compelling enough to follow. I don't feel a "connection" with the universe that many people of faith seem to have. I've never felt like I was missing out so I've never sought religion. Simple as that.
This sums me up as well. When people ask me what happened to cause me to lose my faith, I'm always annoyed at the question because it presumes something has to happen in order for someone to become an atheist. There was never any big event in my life that caused me to wake up one day and say I'm an atheist. I also take issue with the idea that atheists are uneducated. I work in IT. Most of the people I've met in IT are atheists. In fact, you'll most of the scientific fields are dominated by atheists. The angry atheist has given the rest of us a bad name. Most of us don't conform to that stereotype, just like most believers don't conform to the stereotypes about them.
That's funny. All of my closest friends and most of my relatives are atheists and their lives are perfectly happy and functional. They have their ups and downs, like everybody else, but nothing that will make them incurably miserable. On the other hand, some of the religious people I know are always trying to decipher what kind of message God is sending when tragedy (death, illness, a gay son... Things that may happen to anyone ) strikes. Which often makes them feel inadequate, guilty, etc. Fortunately, most religious people I get along with are reasonable and rational and they would never seriously make any dumb generalization about people they don't know.
Now that's a chemistry killer: dumbness.
You would think. But unfortunately, the women I have had a hard time to floor were the religious ones. They are hard to impress.
The ones I get along with immediately are the non-religious ones. Slowly, I've had to cut them away as they start to get more attached coz I know deep within my heart I can't live with a woman who's not serious about religion.
Honestly, every atheist I know in real life has a tale to tell. And I have more atheist friends in the US than theist. Coz atheists have some sense of humour which the Christians brush aside as insensitive and crude.
If what you say is true, you're the first atheist of that kind. And hopefully, you aren't making it up for argument's sake
This is the most common complaint - on how their own family has disowned them. Sad!
I suppose I am an atheist, or perhaps a theist who believes the controlling force in the universe is physics and math? I mean, that is what I believe pretty much gives logic to life, which is essentially the role of religion, ya? I've never had any personal drama to come to this idea, it is just the only one that makes sense to me
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) strikes. Which often makes them feel inadequate, guilty, etc. Fortunately, most religious people I get along with are reasonable and rational and they would never seriously make any dumb generalization about people they don't know.
