God Save the Atheists!!
Oh my God!
What is it about these atheists? Do they just want to take us all down with them? Okay, I know, I've heard it before: There are happy atheists, optimisitc atheists, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, I KNOW.
Personally, I think it's bullshit. I don't think the atheists are really happy being atheists. I think they're SMUG. That's right, smug. For the record, I am not talking about agnostics, pantheists, deists, or the non-religious. I think atheists are smug in their conviction (yes, their disbelief is a conviction, a BELIEF, in fact), for a variety of reasons:
-Getting back at mommy and daddy for fundamentalist Christian Bible-banging childhood.
-Getting back (ironically) at God for the death of a loved one.
-Smugness in general (to feel superior to the so-called "stupid" mass of people who DO believe in some sort of God)
-Self-loathing. This is the big one. People feel like their lives are shit. I can relate to this myself. My life is pretty fucked up. Anyway, though, rather than just leave it at that, that life is fucked up, they go an extra step and say that nothing has meaning. If they stop here, they're existentialists, and they have my pity. I've been here before. But the real committed ones go all the way to materialism and say that the whole universe is nothing but matter and motion and that consciousness is the result of matter (rather than matter being the result of consciousness). Smugness re-enters the equation as they attempt to describe everything "scientifically" (which is the wrong word; better would be "causally") so that they don't get "hoodwinked," so nobody "pulls the wool over their eyes," so they are tricked even for a moment into believing in magic (which is quite real, I assure you), so they can go about making everything dull and mechanical.
If anyone who considers himself an atheist reads this, understand: I do not hate you. I FEEL SO FUCKING SORRY FOR YOU! No, I'm not worried about your soul. Nothing you do can harm your soul. I feel sorry for you because you have NO FUCKING IMAGINATION!
My fellow fucking Americans, get yourselves a fucking imagination.
(Takes bow)