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Everywhere you go, you hear this shit about values. "I'll only vote for someone who shares my values" is a line that is heard non stop at election times around here. And it is an attack on atheists, but it's also an attack on mormons, presbyterians, muslims, buddhists, and anyone who does not subscribe to the exact branch of religion that this particular person does. It's extremely grating, and bigoted. However, my saying this is not an attack on you. It's just a general complaint with the expression. I purposely did not address that to you. I understand that you are not a manic zealot.
To be honest, (at the risk of sounding condescending and smug) I would say that you are, at the most, about two years away from a revelation, at the end of which you will declare your atheism. Of course, I could be wrong.
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Fair enough, and I understand where you're coming from, but again, I just didn't grab your entire meaning.
As for the second part? I don't see myself not believing in god at any point in my life. Oh, I'll PROBABLY reshape the way I think about it as things go on, and eventually it will be less like I'm Catholic and more like I'm just an epicenter for whatever religious/non-religious facts agree with how I think.
See, it's not so much I think that there's god that you're given whatever afterlife (or lack thereof) your belief system promises depending on how you act. Catholic asshole? Hell.
Obviously this clashes with other beliefs, for example, I don't think you should get a reward for suicide bombing in the name of Allah (kind of a gross generalization, but it serves its purpose).
More than anything, I just believe in Karma. Who says that hell or heaven isn't the moment before you die magically connected to everyone else who's died drawn out into infinity? What if psychics and...uh 'psychic residue' exist and they are what the afterlife is a projection of.
It's a lot of wild mass guessing, but the concept of nothing after life is simultaneously frightening and depressing to me. There should be something, not just Oh you're dead NOTHING.
Now that last bit, that's what I'm under the impression atheists think. Are my facts wrong?
And that, my friends, is why Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is the greatest film ever made.