Atheists are people, too

[james_davis_nicoll]

Unfortunately that means some of them are terrible people.

I’ve been writing about atheism for about 10 years now. What has driven me is a combination of awe at the amazing insights produced by science, so much deeper and more substantial than any collection of myths, and a furious rage at the lies and injustice and corruption of humanity by religion. For a while there, in the middle, there was also an ebullience at the growing success of atheism, and hope that someday we would be able to cast aside the follies of faith. The awe is still here, the rage is still burning, but the optimism is fading and is being consumed by a new anger at the incompetence and betrayal of the self-appointed atheist leadership.

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

"To me, the atheist worldview makes perfect sense, given that atheists haven't had that direct experience (or have had something similar that they explain in a different way.)"

Thank you. For context, I was raised agnostic, decided early in my high school years that I believed in Christianity, was baptized Episcopalian at 21, and subsequently changed my mind and left the church. I have indeed had experiences of my own that at one time I thought of as religious experiences and now see otherwise. Of course I can't know whether they're anything like what anyone else has experienced.