faulker012

I have loved you and you have loved me but I have come to the place and time when it is necessary to move forward and away from this blog. I offer you my sincerest love and affection and I'm grateful to so many of you for befriending me off of the blog; you have brightened my life tremendously. My kids are grown. My atheism is a given. Now I'm only angry about politics day after day. So, to you, I wish you fair and fine roads. May you continue to find happy and healing words here any time you wish to search for them. And keep my love for I have given it to you for freely, fully, and fondly. Ciao.

You know, sometimes you just have to laugh; the cognitive dissonance must be unbearable for some believers. I say this because of some of the claims that some believers make about atheists, though I am aware that they are saying the same thing about us, the cognitive dissonance thing. I mean let's keep it simple. Atheists are simply people who are unconvinced of your supernatural claims. Not all atheists are the same and not all atheists fit into a box...just like all other humans, believers or not. If you make any claim about atheists in general beyond the fact that they are unconvinced of your deity claims, then you are no longer accurate. You might be describing an individual person that you know but you are not describing atheists. But I can guarantee you several simple things. Atheists do not believe in your deity. Nor do we believe in any of your bad guys. Nor do we believe in your afterlife fears or rewards. Nor do we believe in the deities of believers other than you. My ...