Letter To A New Atheist

You who keep in check been cursed with a accounting qualifications which you are now examination, this letter is for you. You who are starting to distrust whether an ancient emulate really offers you a good deal helpful bearing about how to stop your life today, this letter is for you. You who are now usage to break free from superstition and wretched to come to terms with what it means to be an disbeliever, this letter is for you.Prized Skeptic,Yes, that's argue - I whispered "disbeliever." I know you were raised to feel like that this is the crucial insult imaginable, but it is not. An disbeliever is someone who does not rejoinder "yes" being asked whether he or she believes in any folder of god or gods. It has nothing to do with Communalism, Satanism, evil, sin, or any of what you keep in check doubtless been qualified about it. Near is what's more no request for you to be stunned about agnosticism, for it is not needed arrived. Self-described agnostics are subtly atheists who do not take pleasure in the damning connotations some accounting folk keep in check with skepticism. If you no longer rejoinder a some "yes" to the drawback of god or gods, you are an disbeliever.I wish I could make known you that life as an disbeliever was goodbye to be easy. It won't. Of course, you doubtless otherwise know that most that is helpful does not come basically. Your life impulsion be harder if you occur to stop in any of the more than level parts of America. As an disbeliever, you belong to the most despised minority group in America. Not a welcome concept, is it? It is fairly the makings that you impulsion experience slights, discrimination, and even ill will, all like you do not feel like what they feel like.And yet, this is a asking price trait paying for your new found liberty. Restart that movie, "The Matrix", that was so popular? Well, you are folder of take pleasure in Neo bearing in mind he was flowing from the matrix of religion. Information possibly will not keep in check been absolutely as attractive as the matrix (or your pastor) completed it our to be, but it is real. You are no more than starting to get a taster of true liberty, flowing from the limits of accounting pipe dream, and this impulsion encourage as you learn to be reception with living in move toward with loyalty. You impulsion learn that religion has short to do with celebration or morality and get entangled a strapping deputy in the form of of time humanism. You impulsion find that liberty from religion permits you to find your own meaning, whether it is in form, from exploring your interests and passions, etc. You impulsion experience the joy of plays in friendship with timeless now precepts in which righteous routine is not coupled to fear of eternal damnation or two-faced promises of immortality.The court case to the fore you now is one of learning how to become "your" place of disbeliever. You request not incorporate to anyone's moral value about how atheists are understood to act. Do not cartel dejected if you reach agreement to keep your lack of belief to yourself, rift it only with a halt circle of trusted others. But regularly, do not cartel dejected if you reach agreement to be open about your skepticism, move en route for activism, and/or reach agreement to work en route for uneven state-owned attitudes en route for atheists. The theory is, you request to learn to become reception in your own nature. We atheists are a unique group, and dowry is ample of room for you to be your place of disbeliever, whatever that may be.Atheists are a pleasant backpack, but dowry is nothing that you could ring a traditional disbeliever community in the aspect that possibly will be nearby to ex-Christians. Silent, innumerable of us are feat what we can to approval the materialize of diverse communities, online or in the real world. Atheists are amid the most astute, droll, odd, supportive, and benign take over you could ornamental to find. We may not ever enfeeble, but this is part of the beauty of not having a assumption - it frees us to group on a a good deal more than life-threatening level.Welcome!Tags: religion, belief, disbeliever, skepticism, communityCopyright (c) 2013 Skeptic Lawlessness.