13.8.06

Why Atheism?

  • Atheism helps us to see reality as it actually is, without the mental filters of superstition preventing us from directly experiencing it.

  • Atheism opens us to experience our selves, without the debasing idea that we are innately sinful.

  • Atheism allows us to experience true interpersonal love, without any imaginary supernatural intervention.

  • Atheism gives us the freedom to think for ourselves, to construct our own meanings. We each can choose what we think has value.

  • Atheism shows us that we can gain meaning by seeking to make our world a better place, for ourselves and our posterity.

  • Atheism teaches us to take responsibility for our behaviors in the here and now, not in an imaginary afterlife.

  • Atheism lets us see that we have to make choices about our future. No big daddy god is going to protect us from bad decisions.

  • Atheism teaches us to treasure this moment, this life, and this world — because we realize that it’s all we have.
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