this is why
...I don't hang out with other athiests. Because they're always angry. Because they've either gotten there through the "I'm too cool to believe in this shit" door or the "God did something bad to me so in retaliation I'm going to not believe in him so nyaa" door. And either way, it degenerates into the militant stupidity. Constantly trying to take "In God We Trust" off the money (it doesn't make the money worth more, so what's the big deal?) or "under God" out of the pledge (personally I wouldn't mind if it wasn't there, like it wasn't before the 1950's, but since it's there there's nothing that forces me to say that phrase, so I just omit those two words and recite the rest) or taking nativity sets out of parks during Christmas (hey, I have the most awesome nativity set. I call it, after a great line in the MST3K Santa Claus movie, "Action Jesus! Manger sold separately." But it's part of the decoration. Can't have Christmas without both Santa and a manger. It's tradition. And I'm probably the biggest Christmas "ho" there is XD).
Here's another example of something I would not do. It's called a "de-baptism" and it's as silly as it sounds. Because honestly, it only means what you think it means. It means as much as marrying yourself when you hit 40 just so you can throw yourself a big party. If you're that insecure in your athiesm that you have to scrub any possibility of a baptism having an effect on you, then that's a whole other problem than you think it is. If you need to be validated in your beliefs, or unbelief, from outside--and from strangers!--then I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
And if you pay $4 for a certificate saying you're now 100% baptism free, you are an idiot. Here, have a pet rock. And I got a star named after you, too. Would you like to buy a bridge? Come meet my friend Bernie Madoff...
Here's the story I got this from.
Here's another example of something I would not do. It's called a "de-baptism" and it's as silly as it sounds. Because honestly, it only means what you think it means. It means as much as marrying yourself when you hit 40 just so you can throw yourself a big party. If you're that insecure in your athiesm that you have to scrub any possibility of a baptism having an effect on you, then that's a whole other problem than you think it is. If you need to be validated in your beliefs, or unbelief, from outside--and from strangers!--then I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
And if you pay $4 for a certificate saying you're now 100% baptism free, you are an idiot. Here, have a pet rock. And I got a star named after you, too. Would you like to buy a bridge? Come meet my friend Bernie Madoff...
Here's the story I got this from.