The Acceptance of Atheists

Clearly this is something I'm writing with my own agenda as an atheist but as I said in my last post I still often feel scrutinized for my thoughts, even though I consider myself to be in a relatively open minded environment.

To theists out there, both family and friends and people I've never even met I want you to know that I don't hate you I just think you're wrong. I'm going to continue to speak my thoughts on this because in a way if I stopped then it'd be like I believed in something I didn't for not speaking up about it. As an atheist I "believe" in my life. I would be doing my own life wrong by not being honest with myself and honest with my friends and likewise to any other theist they would do themselves wrong to keep their thoughts and practices secret as well. Throughout history I'm sure we can point out many scenarios where this was evident, and even a time when Christianity was dealing with the same turmoil.

Is there any sort of agreement or compromise or form of acceptance that we cohesively as a human race can come to?

Agree to disagree?

I don't think I'll see a resolve any time soon.

To look at it one way the expanding core of something like Christianity, which instills in its believers the wrath of hell for lack of belief (which frankly should make everyone's bullshit/megalomaniac detector go off) says to the believers that anyone who doesn't follow this belief will attend endless punishment. Now, what if in the afterlife we all become inverted? If we were good people today then after death we would be murderers. It sounds bizarre but it has just as much validity and my point is the death phobia that everybody alive has, which is perfectly natural and in fact one great way of knowing for sure you are alive is something so thoroughly molested by religion that the concept "maybe there is no afterlife and the kicks we get here are all there is" seems ludicrous and uncomfortable because it's painful to be reminded of our mortality after such a deep marination in the afterlife dream.

In short: It may sound backwards but I think you're doing more harm than not by wanting to believe in something. I know it's comforting but you, the theist reader, are allowing yourself to be exploited and dehumanized.

In the god and mortal paradigm theoretically we're slaves because God wants us to be. We're rewarded and punished based on an archaic system similarly used by Pavlov with God as judge. This is acceptable to the human race because we're given a small comfort: it lasts forever

L.O.V.E.

I love people even if I think they're wrong.

I love people even if they hate me for thinking they're wrong.

-Sims