Sunday 1 July 2012

I am an atheist. Why?

* I refuse to tell a child he is inherently evil and a sinner;
* I refuse to discriminate unfairly against anyone because the Bible tells me to;
* I refuse to view women as second grade citizens because the Bible tells me to;
* I refuse to believe that I must accept my lot in life because it was planned that way by God;
* I refuse to stoop so low as to ask for godly assistance when I haven't done my duty;
* I refuse to believe God is love when everything around me indicates the contrary;
* I refuse to participate in a practice of eating someone's body and drinking his blood;
* I refuse to believe that suffering before death is a justifiable condition on religious grounds;
* I refuse to believe in a second coming when the dead will get out of graves and fly to heaven;
* I refuse to believe in a god that Epicurus analysed as follows:

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”