I'm an atheist because on the minute, as good as zero chance, that there are "supreme beings" somewhere, they certainly would prefer us over all the believer in something what they are just guessing at. I am an atheist because for me the idea of something that is not part of nature and at the same time above nature is totally absurd. If I am going to revere anything it is going to be Mother Nature herself. By thinking instead of believing I am using the brain I have been given by our Mom.
my atheism is wisdom to know the difference between reality and fiction, wisdom know the importance of basing what you believe in off of evidence if not proof
My atheism steems from being raised a christian, and the total lack of answers it provided me in life. Mainly, what happens after we die? We go to heavan. How do you know? There was never an answer that satisfied me.
Atheism helps me concentrate on the here and now, and not wistful dreaming of an event that may never happen.
My atheism included hedging me bets in case there's a God. I find that if I go shopping on Yom Kippur, I get into trouble with the police by picking up someone else's bag. If I walk my dog without a leash on Rosh Hashannah, my dog runs off and a child yelps because he decides his hand was bit. Even thought the child is fine. My atheism inludes best behavior on the High Holy Days. I hate to admit it, just like a true Jew, I fear God's wrath.
My Atheism is a work in progress...To continue asking questions and learning what I can about the natural world around me. To continue trying to keep my sanity living in the deep south of the US where believing in Bronze Age Mythology rules. I was born in the south and from early on I noticed people take pride in being ignorant & not asking questions.
My atheism is potential. The potential to always choose, to always decide what I believe, what I uphold, the values and the ideas that will shape my life and my future. Potential, unlimited.
My atheism is responsibility. I take personal responsibility for assuring to the best of my ability that my beliefs are as reliably true as they can be at any given moment in the progress of my life.
It's been nearly a year since I realized I was an atheist. In that time, I've thought my atheism was many things. Some I rejected, some I embraced. But at the core, all the answers I found meant the same thing: prove it. I refuse to take things on faith. I require proof--or at the very least a damned good argument to convince me. That's my atheism--the gift of doubt, of skepticism, of disbelief. The gift of my own, till-recently-woefully-underused mind. Thank you for the wonderfuk video.
Beautifully put. Also, interestingly enough, the quotation on your main page concerning the difference between atheism and religion via the analogy of stamp collecting is something I've written about before.
I don't really care if there's a god or not. I seriously doubt even the sort of god that just "is" like a kind of benevolent standing wave filling the entire universe and all dimensions its embedded in.
I honestly think that if a god did inspire scripture, it was because he realized it would only convince the exact people we are better off sand-boxing into some sort of institution. If this is the case, we should be careful not to wake those zombies too quickly.
As Dennett, I do believe we should not dismiss religion just like that. However, stating that it somehow keeps people in line, if I interpret what you wrote correctly, is useless and even a bit arrogant. It does not take into account that the vast majority of people have an innate sense of morality which definitely is not come by through religion. Religion is a reflection of the morality of the time, not the standard. To say that people need religion to behave is to deny them humanity....
But it's both my innate and reasoned sense of morality that leads me to see religion as so clearly dysfunctional. I'm not saying we should do anything to them. I'm saying that religion itself may have inadvertently conferred a selective advantage to those societies containing them by attracting (not imprisoning) those minds morally capable of seeing them as desirable. This could be enriching in some sense for the zeitgeist of the remaining or undecided population; welfare for the lazy minds.
Easy to do with so little room and much to say. I had the subconscious feeling we're on the same page earlier so just disambiguated it.
Anyways, you and I know the only real drawback to atheism is all the lightening strikes. Still, my only regret is that I have but one soul (or two I suppose if I'm a chimera) to be condemned to an eternity of hell-fire in defense of the free will of my fellow humanity.
I became athiest because I have had many severe health problems and a high level of intellegence.Also, on a different note I think your voice is that of a corporial angel.Disability is not that bad as you know.I know have a focused mind and a high pain threshold.
science in a way. But, to me, science is more than just a book. We see it, smell it, taste, touch, hear... How do religions compare? I don't know for sure if they do or not, but I know that science, that my reality has no god. It has no heaven or hell, just the here and now. My world is the senseable world, and to me, that is all that matters
My atheism. I think my athesim has a lot to do with freedom as yours does. To be able to experience life to the fullest. To not be as constricted with the "laws" and "rules" of certain religions and beliefs. I want to be able to ask questions and experience things outside of their realms. My athesim is also one of science. Science, being my favorite subject, has a very large influence on me. To believe in something that is unseeable in any way, shape, or form is hard for me, but so is
but a theory that can be tested and does actually align with reality... even without the need to "interpret" scientific texts and decide which of the texts are to be taken literally and which are not...
As for science I have to despite the fact it is know used to answer a very religious question that being where did we come from. I feel that science is not an argument of weather or not there is a god. I will say every now and then I have moments of thinking there is some sort supernatural order to things but then I remember there are happy accidents.
The reason I dont believe in a god is that from what Ive seen there is definitive god. That throws all monotheistic faiths out. In polytheistic faiths all there gods seem look like people that are from the region of the world that the people are from which makes me think the faith came after the people where there.
Lets make a club everybody, Lets compete with the religious crowd. We need to help each other. Lets give our group, our Religion, A Name, Lets call it, "Heaven on Earth" It is a great concept. Its Biblical. Lets be a group of Good Samaritans. Right from the word of Jesus. Lets Love Life and Live it. We have to work together. Its the only way we can make ourselves immortal. Make History, not read about it. WE CAN DO THIS! This is not going to be left to someone else to do this. It takes us.
can you elaborate on the atheist "churches" you speak of. i know there are groups like the humanist association but atheist churches wouldn't make sense. please help.
They aren't defined by their atheism though. Indeed Buddhism has a religious portion that does worship certain figures as Gods. The philosophical side of it is atheistic though.
My atheism is freedom, tolerance, curiosity and awe. The power to question things and even your own beliefs sometimes is liberating, the will to learn things that intrest you, and the desire to know how things work. Awe at the beauty of how things work and of this system we live in. Tolerance towards individuals and being able to exchange ideas, and the power to disagree with them, even when they seem to speak from authority. The realisation that in the end I am responsible for my own life....
i am currently called jewish but i believe i am atheist i dont believe in god i think the world is what it is i dont make things up 2 fill gaps i belive that god was thought of by mankind because they didnt know enough at first it was just a theory then some crazy person decided it was truth and began 2 make people fear the all powerful creator and if they didnt they would murder them for their uniqueness i htink that people shouldnt be forced 2 believe a religion like many of my friends and i r
excellent, i would love to make a video response, but at the moment i have no internet connection other than to come to a computer lab. I would like to ask though what it was you meant by not experiencing death, i assume that you mean when you are dead you experience nothing but i would like to hear what your meaning was
My atheism was freedom of thought, freedom of fear, freedom of choice. I was able to think thoughts that might go against the church, I no longer feared doing what I thought was right because of Hell, and I was free to choose what I felt was right compared to what the church thought.
My atheism is essentially yours with a few post scripts attached.
My atheism is asking questions when I was taught just to obey and do as I was told. It's looking at the world with objective eyes, questioning everything, always thinking, always looking for the better answer to the question.
My Atheism is not an absence of belief, but in fact an unreasonably high concentration of belief, just not focused on the supernatural. For me, good feelings are a reason to believe. My belief is heavily invested in the world as it is and our natural interpretations of it. This philosophically makes me a Natural Pantheist.
Religion and the supernatural just isn't weird enough for me to have any emotional investment in it. In a universe where cats exist, religion has too much competition.
Your monologues are always so pretty. I think if you were to truthfully say that you improvise them, my atheism would be strongly shaken.
But to answer your question, I think my atheism is some combination of logic and the default position. I cannot recall a time in my life when I had any doubt that Zeus was the most important of the gods - and that's not because of any pagan leanings.
However, to believe in any man created belief which has a god as their saviour came from man`s vivid imagination.
Man created hundreds of gods throughout the ages to enable him to cope with every conceivable event he couldn`t understand, and or feared.
The present personal god is no exception and was created by man in man`s own image. The writers of the various books in the bible turned it around to state that god created man in god`s image.
I'm not an Atheist, because I'm truly convinced that my penis is Godly. And it shoots white angels, periodically... go on, click on the thumbs down. Do it! I live for it!
its not that i never questioned belief. I always questioned belief, but i was in denial. It is not easy to come out of it either, its complicated, but i am finding a way, a way to become atheist. and its not because some one told me.
I have known a few individuals who have undergone such an overwhelming trauma that they created an irrational atheistic belief system that helped to make them feel better. If these individuals never proselytized their beliefs or caused harm to another as a result of their beliefs, WHY should their "good feelings" NEVER be used as a basis for their world view? Isn't your blanket proclamation too absolute too apply to all circumstances?
I'm grateful to my family for rational thought, allowing a child the freedom to think, to learn, to explore our natural world. Even the choice to experience church, which I did. Though being non-religious can put us in some socially awkward situations at times, an early example was choosing to leave the classroom during the morning prayer. In 1960 school prayer was mandatory.
Great question ABC I am totally enjoying the responses. I have often wondered what need is being met with this particular strategy. Peace, freedom, curiosity, creativity... I am hearing it all. Way cool question. Cheers!
Theism versus atheism is like looking through a dirty smoky window for the former and a clean clear window in the later. Unencumbered by the supernatural allows for seeing things more clearly.
"Believing in gods always causes confusion".Pearl S. Buck
Excellent video and great topic for discussion. :)
My atheism is peace and the freedom to think for myself and to ask philosophical questions about the world and the knowledge of science to look for and check those philosophical thoughts.
My atheism is the freedom of fear that was embedded in my religious upbringing, the understanding that indeed there are unexplored barrieres that continue to challenge the scientific mind, the knowledge that I have to make the best out of this one precious life I got and the human urge to make my surrounding as meaningful and valuable as much as I can control.
Freedom w/ a scientific, logical, reasonal thinking that includes the knowing of right and wrong.
As a staunch anti-theist I am a minority in a minority. I can't take refuge in the comfort of being a member of any group, and that's the way I want it. At the end of the day, I have to rely on my own judgment, and while many of those judgments have been wrong, I still believe that it would be immoral for me to abdicate responsibility to any god, church, or organization. Although my intellect is finite and imperfect, it's all I've got. My atheism means individualism and responsibility.
my atheism is for the most part a result of my own rational critical thinking on the subject of religion and it's apparent lack of factual evidence. this combined with my curious nature and love of science and the wonders of the universe brought me to my current state of non belief.
For me it is a release from the "mind forged manacle". It is taking responsibility for my actions and appreciating the only life I have. It is looking at life as a hard fought war against odds and circumstance. It is the truth of everything.
The diehard theists are not going to understand living without idolatry. As a prof of mine put it, 'there is evidence that the common primate ancestor was hierarchical'. They r a remnant of our past. They cannot understand the world without pecking order. They need a silverback to give order to their world. U can't reprogram their nervous system. What's important is that they become a minority.
Sorry didn't mean to pontificate - great vid BTW - 5 stars :D
@CO2Junkie A true atheist can never say something is bad or wrong, to say so this implies they must know what is good or right. That is where they use Christian values to define their beliefs in the lack of values and the bible or God. To put it simple bad can only exist when there is first good i.e. rust can exist on a car, moth-ridden clothes need clothes.
@CO2Junkie Evil can only exist where there is good, Christians can tell what is bad because we know what is good. Atheists do not have they luxury because their words are always subjective and an absolute can never be reached.
Actually, I belong to an atheist church; we call it a freethought church. Anyway, like you, I liked to the same questions. I like to try and figure out the world as best I can, not that I'm personally a scientist, but I take the findings of science and try to put it all together. Also, like you, I'm fine with saying, "gee, we don't know yet." People who insist on having "answers" for everything amaze me; they're the same ones who say we can't know everything, so god must exist.
My atheism is an avid search for knowledge, or rather my atheism is a part of my search for knowledge. To me the truth has always been #1. There is nothing that I'd rather have not learned about, regardless of how much it may have saddened me. The idea of a god has always seemed illogical to me, and I'm quite baffled when I see a theist face an uncomfortable idea and turn away from it because it threatens his belief. Reality doesn't conform to wishful thinking, they know it, yet they persist.
my atheism is a persuit for truth on how the universe and everything in it works. i do enjoy the ideas of freedom, but we are still bound by cosmological constants which cannot be breached. we cannot control everything, and we cannot chose to do whatever we dream. so i think i am a little more grounded in what the truth actually is as opposed to how it should be. we should practice the freedom we can, and accept the restraints we have as well.
I was born to and raised in mildly religious family, going to church with family and with school (they do teach religions in schools here). I have never been a believer, perhaps a Deist at some point, but I realized that religions were just stories, and not very moral ones (believe or else...)
To me, atheism is living my life, be good because I want to be, not just because someone tells me to be.
In my early teens I saw the inner workings of a church which became very large, and I saw the kind of men who ran it. When I compared their ways with what they preached, it became clear that religion was bunk, it's purpose the control of masses of people and mountains of money. God (in one or another of his three parts) was the central character of their fiction, and the threat of a lake of fire the scourge that kept people in line. I've never been good in line. I rejected the whole thing.
I Have never belived in god, I spent the first ten years of my life not thinking about god the slightest bit, I regarded the bible as fiction and nothing more and I laughed at my teacher when she said it was real, then when I were about eleven, I started label myself an atheist and since then I have regarded religion as nothing more than a cultural Phenomenon.
VERY well done. May you and all beings be well and happy. May we all give ot all other beings teh very same loving kindness, respect and compassion we seek for ourselves and what and who we hold dear.
I became an athiest later on in life, after atheism is the only logical conclusion I have. I was brought up by secular Catholic parents; they were quite Christian, but they never really were uber-Christian, if that makes me sense. I believe in freedom of speech, and I also believe in the human race; that we will overcome religion, and finally become free. I regret nothing of my atheism; in fact, I take pleasure in making thiests' world views become questioned. All I can make in such a small spot
I'm an atheist because on the minute, as good as zero chance, that there are "supreme beings" somewhere, they certainly would prefer us over all the believer in something what they are just guessing at. I am an atheist because for me the idea of something that is not part of nature and at the same time above nature is totally absurd. If I am going to revere anything it is going to be Mother Nature herself. By thinking instead of believing I am using the brain I have been given by our Mom.
isleofyew1 1 year ago
My atheism is disbelief in a god-of-church due to the truth of God Everlasting.
mythmanjay 1 year ago
I think my Atheism is more in my nature than my nurture. Given that by the age of 4/5 I had already stopped believing in Santa.
GrandSupremeDaddyo 1 year ago
my atheism is wisdom to know the difference between reality and fiction, wisdom know the importance of basing what you believe in off of evidence if not proof
13b1cdw8g 1 year ago
Lovely Voice!
My atheism steems from being raised a christian, and the total lack of answers it provided me in life. Mainly, what happens after we die? We go to heavan. How do you know? There was never an answer that satisfied me.
Atheism helps me concentrate on the here and now, and not wistful dreaming of an event that may never happen.
AmosTheTalented 2 years ago
My atheism included hedging me bets in case there's a God. I find that if I go shopping on Yom Kippur, I get into trouble with the police by picking up someone else's bag. If I walk my dog without a leash on Rosh Hashannah, my dog runs off and a child yelps because he decides his hand was bit. Even thought the child is fine. My atheism inludes best behavior on the High Holy Days. I hate to admit it, just like a true Jew, I fear God's wrath.
brelfan 2 years ago
My Atheism is a work in progress...To continue asking questions and learning what I can about the natural world around me. To continue trying to keep my sanity living in the deep south of the US where believing in Bronze Age Mythology rules. I was born in the south and from early on I noticed people take pride in being ignorant & not asking questions.
Thank you for a wonderful video.
SkyDaddy7 2 years ago
My atheism is potential. The potential to always choose, to always decide what I believe, what I uphold, the values and the ideas that will shape my life and my future. Potential, unlimited.
Zipo1379 2 years ago
Thank you for a beautiful & profound statement.
My atheism is responsibility. I take personal responsibility for assuring to the best of my ability that my beliefs are as reliably true as they can be at any given moment in the progress of my life.
Kailoa36 2 years ago
Bananashake why post something so disrespectful, don't you have better things to do? she has a beautiful voice
jpc08109 2 years ago
sexy voice
hotashellbutterface 2 years ago
I disagree with BananaShake21. I think her voice is fantastic.
Mephmt 2 years ago
And by "wonderfuk", I meant "wonderful", lmao.
beetlecommathe 2 years ago
It's been nearly a year since I realized I was an atheist. In that time, I've thought my atheism was many things. Some I rejected, some I embraced. But at the core, all the answers I found meant the same thing: prove it. I refuse to take things on faith. I require proof--or at the very least a damned good argument to convince me. That's my atheism--the gift of doubt, of skepticism, of disbelief. The gift of my own, till-recently-woefully-underused mind. Thank you for the wonderfuk video.
beetlecommathe 2 years ago
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YOUR VOICE IS FUCKN ANNOYING!!
BananaShake21 2 years ago
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jpc08109 2 years ago
Beautifully put. Also, interestingly enough, the quotation on your main page concerning the difference between atheism and religion via the analogy of stamp collecting is something I've written about before.
BoStevoD 3 years ago
I don't really care if there's a god or not. I seriously doubt even the sort of god that just "is" like a kind of benevolent standing wave filling the entire universe and all dimensions its embedded in.
I honestly think that if a god did inspire scripture, it was because he realized it would only convince the exact people we are better off sand-boxing into some sort of institution. If this is the case, we should be careful not to wake those zombies too quickly.
ananiasacts 3 years ago
As Dennett, I do believe we should not dismiss religion just like that. However, stating that it somehow keeps people in line, if I interpret what you wrote correctly, is useless and even a bit arrogant. It does not take into account that the vast majority of people have an innate sense of morality which definitely is not come by through religion. Religion is a reflection of the morality of the time, not the standard. To say that people need religion to behave is to deny them humanity....
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
But it's both my innate and reasoned sense of morality that leads me to see religion as so clearly dysfunctional. I'm not saying we should do anything to them. I'm saying that religion itself may have inadvertently conferred a selective advantage to those societies containing them by attracting (not imprisoning) those minds morally capable of seeing them as desirable. This could be enriching in some sense for the zeitgeist of the remaining or undecided population; welfare for the lazy minds.
ananiasacts 3 years ago
I must've misunderstood your original comment.
We are in agreement.
Atheistblindchick 3 years ago
Easy to do with so little room and much to say. I had the subconscious feeling we're on the same page earlier so just disambiguated it.
Anyways, you and I know the only real drawback to atheism is all the lightening strikes. Still, my only regret is that I have but one soul (or two I suppose if I'm a chimera) to be condemned to an eternity of hell-fire in defense of the free will of my fellow humanity.
ananiasacts 3 years ago
I became athiest because I have had many severe health problems and a high level of intellegence.Also, on a different note I think your voice is that of a corporial angel.Disability is not that bad as you know.I know have a focused mind and a high pain threshold.
bricemabadass 3 years ago 3
There was a time when I thought i was a pantheist...until I realized that I was just grafting SPECIAL onto the universe.
My atheism really isn't anything at all...it's just a reaction to the available evidence, the only logical conclusion I can reach.
BionicDance 3 years ago
science in a way. But, to me, science is more than just a book. We see it, smell it, taste, touch, hear... How do religions compare? I don't know for sure if they do or not, but I know that science, that my reality has no god. It has no heaven or hell, just the here and now. My world is the senseable world, and to me, that is all that matters
FunkmasterFic 3 years ago
My atheism. I think my athesim has a lot to do with freedom as yours does. To be able to experience life to the fullest. To not be as constricted with the "laws" and "rules" of certain religions and beliefs. I want to be able to ask questions and experience things outside of their realms. My athesim is also one of science. Science, being my favorite subject, has a very large influence on me. To believe in something that is unseeable in any way, shape, or form is hard for me, but so is
FunkmasterFic 3 years ago
My atheism is party party all the time.
heyyouube11111 3 years ago
science i
nothing is an idea. you may not fear
you can do what ever the fuck you want including go in to sound with belief
Tiredofcrap 3 years ago
Why is a solely useless question tikr
Tiredofcrap 3 years ago
why?
Devilsnightforlife 3 years ago
Religions Nut Job Ratings System
watch?v=02X_TeRZgmg
Lotus4115 3 years ago
My atheism is the fundamental driving force of my life: curiosity.
Besides,if god wanted us to believe in him he would have existed.
noworkgroup 3 years ago 2
Awesome.
Valkes 3 years ago
Truly Wonderful!
provoking and enlightening, simple and bright.
phmota 3 years ago
I never exist
Tiredofcrap 3 years ago
even science is a theory
Vleertouwer 3 years ago
but a theory that can be tested and does actually align with reality... even without the need to "interpret" scientific texts and decide which of the texts are to be taken literally and which are not...
theM4ce 3 years ago
So what. What's your point?.
golddigger159 3 years ago
just saying.....
Vleertouwer 3 years ago
As for science I have to despite the fact it is know used to answer a very religious question that being where did we come from. I feel that science is not an argument of weather or not there is a god. I will say every now and then I have moments of thinking there is some sort supernatural order to things but then I remember there are happy accidents.
maciolek1980 3 years ago
The reason I dont believe in a god is that from what Ive seen there is definitive god. That throws all monotheistic faiths out. In polytheistic faiths all there gods seem look like people that are from the region of the world that the people are from which makes me think the faith came after the people where there.
maciolek1980 3 years ago 2
Lets make a club everybody, Lets compete with the religious crowd. We need to help each other. Lets give our group, our Religion, A Name, Lets call it, "Heaven on Earth" It is a great concept. Its Biblical. Lets be a group of Good Samaritans. Right from the word of Jesus. Lets Love Life and Live it. We have to work together. Its the only way we can make ourselves immortal. Make History, not read about it. WE CAN DO THIS! This is not going to be left to someone else to do this. It takes us.
greatinnumbers 3 years ago
there are many groups and "churches" for atheists springing up especially in Europe from what i've heard
quietAtheist20 3 years ago
can you elaborate on the atheist "churches" you speak of. i know there are groups like the humanist association but atheist churches wouldn't make sense. please help.
imafractal 3 years ago
There /are/ atheist religions, you know. Some forms of Buddhism and Jainism are atheist denominations.
shanoxilt 3 years ago
They aren't defined by their atheism though. Indeed Buddhism has a religious portion that does worship certain figures as Gods. The philosophical side of it is atheistic though.
Vire70 2 years ago
My atheism is freedom, tolerance, curiosity and awe. The power to question things and even your own beliefs sometimes is liberating, the will to learn things that intrest you, and the desire to know how things work. Awe at the beauty of how things work and of this system we live in. Tolerance towards individuals and being able to exchange ideas, and the power to disagree with them, even when they seem to speak from authority. The realisation that in the end I am responsible for my own life....
Fataalex 3 years ago
i am currently called jewish but i believe i am atheist i dont believe in god i think the world is what it is i dont make things up 2 fill gaps i belive that god was thought of by mankind because they didnt know enough at first it was just a theory then some crazy person decided it was truth and began 2 make people fear the all powerful creator and if they didnt they would murder them for their uniqueness i htink that people shouldnt be forced 2 believe a religion like many of my friends and i r
1boredom2strikes3 3 years ago
excellent, i would love to make a video response, but at the moment i have no internet connection other than to come to a computer lab. I would like to ask though what it was you meant by not experiencing death, i assume that you mean when you are dead you experience nothing but i would like to hear what your meaning was
slicydicy1 3 years ago
Well said. My faith provides many of the same freedoms from a different path, but you say it much better.
RabbitEars001 3 years ago
My atheism was freedom of thought, freedom of fear, freedom of choice. I was able to think thoughts that might go against the church, I no longer feared doing what I thought was right because of Hell, and I was free to choose what I felt was right compared to what the church thought.
westfalla 3 years ago
My atheism is essentially yours with a few post scripts attached.
My atheism is asking questions when I was taught just to obey and do as I was told. It's looking at the world with objective eyes, questioning everything, always thinking, always looking for the better answer to the question.
happyfinesad 3 years ago
My Atheism is not an absence of belief, but in fact an unreasonably high concentration of belief, just not focused on the supernatural. For me, good feelings are a reason to believe. My belief is heavily invested in the world as it is and our natural interpretations of it. This philosophically makes me a Natural Pantheist.
Religion and the supernatural just isn't weird enough for me to have any emotional investment in it. In a universe where cats exist, religion has too much competition.
Eregeras 3 years ago
For me it means taking personal responsibility for my life.
cavejourney 3 years ago
"For me it means taking personal responsibility for my life."
Amen. Absolutely. It's the whole point!
hairyreasoner 3 years ago
My atheism is my freedom to be a cynical bastard.
madeye0 3 years ago
Your monologues are always so pretty. I think if you were to truthfully say that you improvise them, my atheism would be strongly shaken.
But to answer your question, I think my atheism is some combination of logic and the default position. I cannot recall a time in my life when I had any doubt that Zeus was the most important of the gods - and that's not because of any pagan leanings.
Elithrion 3 years ago
No one knows if there is a creator.
However, to believe in any man created belief which has a god as their saviour came from man`s vivid imagination.
Man created hundreds of gods throughout the ages to enable him to cope with every conceivable event he couldn`t understand, and or feared.
The present personal god is no exception and was created by man in man`s own image. The writers of the various books in the bible turned it around to state that god created man in god`s image.
maurieer 3 years ago
I know with belief there is no one
the creator is in stealth mode
Tiredofcrap 3 years ago
my atheism is a piece of paper
Tiredofcrap 3 years ago
words never make sense
creature speak
You are blameless in belief
Tiredofcrap 3 years ago
fold
I would only rebuke
Tiredofcrap 3 years ago
For me, there is that big lifetime change involved in my atheism.
oliverscott2007 3 years ago
I guess I'll just have to share your atheism, because that was pretty much it.
samsroomie 3 years ago
I'm not an Atheist, because I'm truly convinced that my penis is Godly. And it shoots white angels, periodically... go on, click on the thumbs down. Do it! I live for it!
Savagecuntfart 3 years ago 5
"Define my atheism?"
Nah. Can't be bothered.
XGralgrathor 3 years ago
its not that i never questioned belief. I always questioned belief, but i was in denial. It is not easy to come out of it either, its complicated, but i am finding a way, a way to become atheist. and its not because some one told me.
mildpace 3 years ago
your voice makes the video more interesting.
mildpace 3 years ago
I´d like to give you more than five stars for this video!
kirafan68 3 years ago
"My atheism is the freedom to say, 'I don't know'".
That's my atheism, too. The rest of my craziness is something else entirely. Glad to see a new video, ABC.
eequalsfb 3 years ago
My atheism is non-existent.
Justinfh2point0 3 years ago
I was raised an atheist as well. Some good came from that, but it's still the greatest regret of my life.
StormTrek 3 years ago
Ha? what? uhhh?
thruthem 3 years ago
I have known a few individuals who have undergone such an overwhelming trauma that they created an irrational atheistic belief system that helped to make them feel better. If these individuals never proselytized their beliefs or caused harm to another as a result of their beliefs, WHY should their "good feelings" NEVER be used as a basis for their world view? Isn't your blanket proclamation too absolute too apply to all circumstances?
premed2 3 years ago
My atheism is realizing that it's my friends and family that are placing the presents under the christmas tree.
Denamic 3 years ago
I'm grateful to my family for rational thought, allowing a child the freedom to think, to learn, to explore our natural world. Even the choice to experience church, which I did. Though being non-religious can put us in some socially awkward situations at times, an early example was choosing to leave the classroom during the morning prayer. In 1960 school prayer was mandatory.
There's nothing sweeter than freedom.
very good vid, thanks
CrankyCrone 3 years ago
Great question ABC I am totally enjoying the responses. I have often wondered what need is being met with this particular strategy. Peace, freedom, curiosity, creativity... I am hearing it all. Way cool question. Cheers!
NLPNVC 3 years ago
Theism versus atheism is like looking through a dirty smoky window for the former and a clean clear window in the later. Unencumbered by the supernatural allows for seeing things more clearly.
"Believing in gods always causes confusion".Pearl S. Buck
KasparHauser4 3 years ago 2
I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way...
Brandt761 3 years ago
But they do have a bus poster parade in the UK eh?
sojoyful 3 years ago
Excellent video and great topic for discussion. :)
My atheism is peace and the freedom to think for myself and to ask philosophical questions about the world and the knowledge of science to look for and check those philosophical thoughts.
HaleyMary 3 years ago
My atheism is the freedom of fear that was embedded in my religious upbringing, the understanding that indeed there are unexplored barrieres that continue to challenge the scientific mind, the knowledge that I have to make the best out of this one precious life I got and the human urge to make my surrounding as meaningful and valuable as much as I can control.
Freedom w/ a scientific, logical, reasonal thinking that includes the knowing of right and wrong.
~Angel XIII~
anangel13 3 years ago
As a staunch anti-theist I am a minority in a minority. I can't take refuge in the comfort of being a member of any group, and that's the way I want it. At the end of the day, I have to rely on my own judgment, and while many of those judgments have been wrong, I still believe that it would be immoral for me to abdicate responsibility to any god, church, or organization. Although my intellect is finite and imperfect, it's all I've got. My atheism means individualism and responsibility.
pchannell 3 years ago
my atheism is for the most part a result of my own rational critical thinking on the subject of religion and it's apparent lack of factual evidence. this combined with my curious nature and love of science and the wonders of the universe brought me to my current state of non belief.
jdf088 3 years ago
Absolutely positively wonderful video...
PlinyTheYoungest 3 years ago
For me it is a release from the "mind forged manacle". It is taking responsibility for my actions and appreciating the only life I have. It is looking at life as a hard fought war against odds and circumstance. It is the truth of everything.
crabbybastard1 3 years ago
What a lovely video. :)
PiroNiro 3 years ago
It's good to hear from you again.
thatgaybloke 3 years ago
I'll be making a video within a few days, my lady.
Stryder467 3 years ago
My fellow Atheists :p
The diehard theists are not going to understand living without idolatry. As a prof of mine put it, 'there is evidence that the common primate ancestor was hierarchical'. They r a remnant of our past. They cannot understand the world without pecking order. They need a silverback to give order to their world. U can't reprogram their nervous system. What's important is that they become a minority.
Sorry didn't mean to pontificate - great vid BTW - 5 stars :D
CO2Junkie 3 years ago
@CO2Junkie A true atheist can never say something is bad or wrong, to say so this implies they must know what is good or right. That is where they use Christian values to define their beliefs in the lack of values and the bible or God. To put it simple bad can only exist when there is first good i.e. rust can exist on a car, moth-ridden clothes need clothes.
MrRichardKranium 10 months ago
@CO2Junkie Evil can only exist where there is good, Christians can tell what is bad because we know what is good. Atheists do not have they luxury because their words are always subjective and an absolute can never be reached.
MrRichardKranium 10 months ago
Actually, I belong to an atheist church; we call it a freethought church. Anyway, like you, I liked to the same questions. I like to try and figure out the world as best I can, not that I'm personally a scientist, but I take the findings of science and try to put it all together. Also, like you, I'm fine with saying, "gee, we don't know yet." People who insist on having "answers" for everything amaze me; they're the same ones who say we can't know everything, so god must exist.
ChuckyJesus666 3 years ago
My atheism is an avid search for knowledge, or rather my atheism is a part of my search for knowledge. To me the truth has always been #1. There is nothing that I'd rather have not learned about, regardless of how much it may have saddened me. The idea of a god has always seemed illogical to me, and I'm quite baffled when I see a theist face an uncomfortable idea and turn away from it because it threatens his belief. Reality doesn't conform to wishful thinking, they know it, yet they persist.
Itslvle 3 years ago
great video! miss you much!
its good to be free of the mind enslavements!!
cozmikzen 3 years ago
I suppose as a byproduct of a desire for truth, and knowledge; [reasoned atheism] would be my classification.
P.S.
Cool question. . ★★★★★
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Katalyzt 3 years ago
my atheism is a persuit for truth on how the universe and everything in it works. i do enjoy the ideas of freedom, but we are still bound by cosmological constants which cannot be breached. we cannot control everything, and we cannot chose to do whatever we dream. so i think i am a little more grounded in what the truth actually is as opposed to how it should be. we should practice the freedom we can, and accept the restraints we have as well.
greycloud24 3 years ago
I was born to and raised in mildly religious family, going to church with family and with school (they do teach religions in schools here). I have never been a believer, perhaps a Deist at some point, but I realized that religions were just stories, and not very moral ones (believe or else...)
To me, atheism is living my life, be good because I want to be, not just because someone tells me to be.
I view religion as part of humanity's childhood.
Saukko31 3 years ago
In my early teens I saw the inner workings of a church which became very large, and I saw the kind of men who ran it. When I compared their ways with what they preached, it became clear that religion was bunk, it's purpose the control of masses of people and mountains of money. God (in one or another of his three parts) was the central character of their fiction, and the threat of a lake of fire the scourge that kept people in line. I've never been good in line. I rejected the whole thing.
Largo64 3 years ago
Naw, like Sam Harris said, science can probably tell us right from wrong
MassZombicide 3 years ago
Hmmmm I must think about it... I have never thought about it in that sense.
Great vid Atheistblindchick, always a pleasure to hear your voice, love the accent too.
Paxmax 3 years ago
You are simply wonderful.
nicanicabad 3 years ago
I Have never belived in god, I spent the first ten years of my life not thinking about god the slightest bit, I regarded the bible as fiction and nothing more and I laughed at my teacher when she said it was real, then when I were about eleven, I started label myself an atheist and since then I have regarded religion as nothing more than a cultural Phenomenon.
qanazir 3 years ago 2
VERY well done. May you and all beings be well and happy. May we all give ot all other beings teh very same loving kindness, respect and compassion we seek for ourselves and what and who we hold dear.
justbekindtooall 3 years ago
I became an athiest later on in life, after atheism is the only logical conclusion I have. I was brought up by secular Catholic parents; they were quite Christian, but they never really were uber-Christian, if that makes me sense. I believe in freedom of speech, and I also believe in the human race; that we will overcome religion, and finally become free. I regret nothing of my atheism; in fact, I take pleasure in making thiests' world views become questioned. All I can make in such a small spot
ElDeclan 3 years ago