Like I have any chance of forming an independent basis of right and wrong outside the instructions of some supervisory being!
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Finally.
This billboard went up by my house today. Lots of people here are incredibly angry that it exists. Lots of backlash against atheists for having the audacity to live in this city, or at all. Which just goes to show how much this billboard was needed. I’m happy it’s there.
We should be thankful there is no god
In fantasy fiction, we are often confronted with worlds where history extends for thousands of years without so much of an advancement in technology, politics or philosophy. Obviously, the reason for this is because history in fiction is but a narrative tool, however it also makes a lot of sense when you consider the aspects of fantasy that do not appear in our own world.
If we lived in a world where our problems could be solved by magic, prayer, or a convenient deus ex machina; if we lived in a world where we saw first-hand indisputable evidence of miracles that implied an intelligence beyond ourselves, then we would simply be convinced of our world’s indiscriminate physics. There would be no way to study the behavior of matter that could easily be manipulated by gods that we knew to exist. The explanation for why things are would be right there in front of our face with no reason to question it.
So we should be thankful that there is no god and there is no such thing as magic and that our wills cannot bend reality. Elsewise, there would be no inner search for what is right and no progress to be made in a world that exists exactly as its god created it.
Source: Don’t Feed the Animals
Paragraphization: Mine
You have entered the No-Thinking Zone.
On a related note, I hate the label “atheist.” It bothers me that, for some arbitrary nonsensical reason, each human being must be labeled and segregated based on their current god situation — even when you don’t have one.
