About this user
I am probably best described as an intellectual non-conformist - independent thinker - realist - pragmatist - secular humanist - iconoclast - friend of the world - enemy of god - adversary of religion - proponent of critical thinking - supporter of science and champion of reason. I am also a strong believer in freedom of expression, and an advocate for the rights of self-determination and privacy.
I reject the term "atheist" outright since it has been hijacked by the fundies and used to stigmatize and marginalize non-believers.
Besides, I truly disdain the judeo-xian-islamic gods as being utterly evil and would certainly not worship them even if I knew beyond any doubt that any or all of them existed. Quite to the contrary, if that were the case I would be their enemy.
But frankly, that's all beside the point, because the only thing that I am absolutely certain of is that humans are just mammals - mere mortals abjectly devoid of a soul of any kind thus making all deities essentially irrelevant whether they exist or not.
The human body has been dissected and scanned and probed and examined millions of times and guess what, no soul, so clearly my conclusion is based on a phenomenally flagrant lack of evidence for the existence of a soul and mountains of evidence suggesting no such thing exists.
I do however reserve the right to suspend disbelief or even to, aghast, change my mind if evidence does eventually surface in favor of the existence of souls.
Back to the word "atheist." I do believe that the term also legitimizes religion to a certain extent because without religion the relativistic term "atheist" would be completely unnecessary.
Besides, it really says nothing about what a person believes, only that they have an absence of an asinine faith in superstitious nonsense, cults, fairy tales, fables, mythology, the "super" natural, fairies, elves, banshees, ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, Nessie, reincarnation, karma, spirit "guides", demons, devils, iblis, angels, giants, talking snakes, magical trees, perpetual virgins, man-swallowing fishies, mediums, psychics, seances, the Big Bang Theory, black holes, "dark matter", "dark energy" or any such ridiculous tomfoolery - oh and deities of any kind too. I almost forgot about the frigging deities and the fact that atheists don't subscribe to any of the various moronic religions that haven't quite died out as of yet!
Okay, okay - I will admit that there is at least some, I won't say credible (at least not in the reliable and valid way) evidence to support a belief in Bigfoot, Nessie, and UFOs. Personally, I'm still not a believer in those things, but I won't hold it against you if you are.
I am NOT opposed to fellow non-believers using the term "atheist" though. I just presume it to mean that they are free of the faith virus that infects the poor, gullible, simple, feeble-minded, addle-brained victims of religion and apply no other denotation or connotation to the label as I fully respect the right of my non-believing brothers and sisters to define themselves in any way that they so choose.
I do also assent that the one chief advantage of the term "atheist" is that it does very effectively, by defining one group as separate from the rest, compartmentalize people into two distinct categories: evolutionary throwbacks (as in primitive, immature, philistines) and scientifically-inclined critical-thinking intellectuals.
Note: while I am generally tolerant of the faith-afflicted individual (faith meaning: willful ignorance and shameless credulity - and yes, I do know that some people are so ignorant that they don't know that they're ignorant), I have NO patience or mercy for all the insipid swindlers, ruthless charlatans and other assorted liars and spin-doctors who seem to burrow their parasitic maws into the warm, moist, malodorous bowels of religion.
These worthless, scatological coprophiliacs are the ones who take advantage of the cowardly, easily deceived, cognitively superficial and cerebrally-challenged sheeple of the world, and in so doing, help keep religion alive.
Yep, I am referring primarily to the fundamentalist clergy of the three abrahamic religions since these are the ones that seem to encompass the most arrogance, intolerance and bigotry of all the various religions thus placing those three at the top of my list of hated religions - the ones I loathe and despise more than all the others, including the dead religions of the past. One of my greatest hopes is that these three sorry excuses for genuflection may some day gasp their last breath in mortal agony before being relegated to the dung heap of humanity's most egregious mistakes.
Well now, wasn't that cathartic? :) :) :)
Always remember: blind faith equals impaired judgment!
Hometown
PLANET EARTH
Country
United States
Occupation
Health care
Schools
Bachelors degree
Interests
Secular Humanism, logic, reason, science, human rights, the environment, physical/mental exercise, qigong, hiking and the scientific application of violence. ----- I also have a bit of a sadistic streak and love few things more than watching creationists, evangelicals and judeo-xian-islamic apologists/fundies squirm when confronted with a superior argument-----I also enjoy coveting my neighbor's wife prior to committing adultery with her on the sabbath while taking the lord's name in vain beneath the graven image of an Hindu Kama sex sculpture delineating an orgy of promiscuous delight. ----- In case you weren't counting, that was five of the ten commandments getting fractured into tiny little pieces. God I love to sin - and yep, I would sin even if I knew god existed (well, if you can call plotting to destroy him/her/it/whatever a "sin"). -----I also enjoy drawing caricatures of allah and mohammed for publication in Danish newspapers, and I hope to soon start working on an uncensored, revised, satirical interpretation of Rushdie's The Satanic Verses since I firmly believe the original version was just too tame and mild for a modern audience. ----- The point I'm making here is that if you're an easily-offended crybaby then get over it. I get so disgusted when I hear some smarmy mullah, or self-righteous catholic cheerleader or arrogant anti-defamation league whiner yammering on about how they were offended. ----- Well guess what, your religion offends me (well it would if I were a teary-eyed sniveling child), but you don't hear me mewling that some big mean talker hurt my feelings. ----- What's the saying about people in glass houses not flinging rocks...Besides, it's high time religion was knocked off its pedestal because if god were alive he would surely know that religion has enjoyed a far too prominent position in this country. ----- Deal with it!
