To all of my loyal followers who are bewildered by that new
revelation… fear not, I haven’t lost my mind and taken up religion or anything :). I’ve been thinking about this term “atheist” and decided
I don’t want to call myself an atheist anymore. By definition, an atheist is a
person who does not believe in God or any supernatural power. Well that’s true…
I don’t. But here’s why I don’t like this “grouping”; I don’t want to fall into
a category that’s defined in terms of religion, even if it’s the lack of belief
in one.
Let’s say all of the Star Trek fans got together and
decided that you are either a Trekkie or you are not and then in all forms of
communication and formal office, you were asked to tick a box that said “Trekkie”
or “Non-Trekkie”… well, you wouldn’t even want to answer that question since it
sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? That’s the same reason why I don’t want to
categorize myself in any form of a religious way, even if I’m saying that I don’t
believe in one. Not to mention that the word itself has a negative connotation;
look up the word “atheist” in the dictionary and as it’s synonyms, you’ll find
the following words: agnostic, infidel, skeptic. Really? Infidel and skeptics
are akin to atheists? Isn’t that just the church’s way of sticking it up a bit
deeper into our asses??
Instead, I started thinking about how I would want to describe myself if someone should genuinely ask me what kind of a person I am or what my beliefs are. I started focusing on what’s the basic difference between someone who’s stuck within the boundaries and rules set by their religion of choice (or no choice in most cases) and me and the answer is simple… I’m a self-thinker. That’s the basic difference. I think for myself whereas all religious people follow what someone else “makes up”. You might try and defend your religious freedom and culture as much as you want, but at the end of the day, you follow what someone else made up and told you to follow… period. There’s no way all of these people thought for themselves and came up with the same story… no. They listened to the first invisible man in the sky story that they heard and decided to go with it. Whereas people like me did that for a while and then when we were old enough to start questioning things for ourselves, asked very basic questions like “where’s the proof for this” or “where did all of this come from” or “if this is true, why is there so much bad in this world and this big powerful god is doing nothing about it”, etc. and the logical conclusion that all of us came to was simple… there is no god, there is no bible, there is no quran, nothing.
So there you go, from here on out, please categorize me under “Self-thinkers” and you can add yourself to whatever pre-packaged, pre-wrapped, pre-sold BS that you subscribe to every Sunday.
