Atheism is letting go of theism. In the case of those who never had it, never picking it up. Nothing else. No one becomes an atheist. There are no rites of passage, no dogma, no belief system. Atheists, in the most simplistic way I can possibly put it, ‘do not believe in God or gods.’ The idea of a God or god makes as much sense to an atheist as Big Foot, The Loch Ness Monster, Santa, or the Tooth Fairy. If you are a theist, I will ask you why don’t you believe in the Buddhist doctrine of Nirvana, birth and rebirth, karma? Just as these have no meaning to you, the Christian, Hindu, Islam, Jewish, Etc, gods have no meaning to us. You already know what it is like to be an Atheist. You are an atheist regarding most gods in the world. You find them silly, not true, mythical, fantasies created by men. Atheists just go one god farther. How is it your god is special? If you were born in Thailand you would be Buddhist. If you were born in India you would be Hindu. If you were born in the Philippines, you would be Catholic. If you were born in Israel you would be Jewish. How is it that you just happened to be born in the right country and are now worshiping the right god? Isn’t that just amazing? How lucky is that for you! Can you even imagine how silly you sound to us?
4 Likes