I Am An Atheist

Oh, we shouldn't ignore it... but we should definitely challenge it at every turn.
In that regard, I'm always bemused as to why religions feel that they should get an automatic 'free pass' when it comes to the truth claims that they make.
Faith is a prime example. Faith is merely pretending to know something that you do not in fact know. For some reason, such pretence is extolled as being some sort of virtue!
That's especially so when a politician says 'I believe in A and B and C'. Our response should be... 'those things are unsupported, defy reason, and influence the decisions you make. Your confidence in those things is based on pretence. Therefore how can we trust you?' Why would we trust you?

Yup. Totally agree.

@RoboChloe: That was a truly magnificent (for lack of a better word) discussion you two shared earlier. SW (like EP) has it's share of problems (ala trolls), but it does allow for the facilitation of concepts and ideas such as those you both presented.

Yup, that'd be a good chuckle, were it not for the creationists who think that's actually a meaningful question.
It never fails to make me feel quite sad for them!

I would conclude, like I do every time I wake up, that dreams are a simple result of your brain's biochemistry. Not uninteresting or to be ignored, but nevertheless still pretty irrelevant to reality. The only purpose that such dreams serve in conscious life is to be turned into works of fiction.

@RoboChloe: it is interesting that humans might be hardwired to experience these 'mystical' episodes

Pretty damn atheist.

@RoboChloe: ah totally

Yep I don't use the capital (unless at the start of a sentence)

By definition (as in a non-belief system) atheism is an ordinary noun and not a proper noun like Catholicism

I think that in itself is important as atheism is not a belief system

just thinking out loud

respect

:)

I'm just happy that someone knows atheism isn't a belief system. The amount of people that think it is scares me.

@RoboChloe: ah youre right there...

youre wise beyond your years
much respect RC

Mostly I'm just bored and this is a topic I'm pretty passionate about. I'm not just an atheist, but an anti-theist: I don't just not believe in religion but actively dislike it. (But I don't dislike religious people, that's important to note)