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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes, what's with all the stupid emoticons tonight?[/quote]

:?:  :shock:  :!:  :mrgreen:  [/quote]

How disapponting! 22:12, the Atheist, is really just incredibly shallow. Oh well.[/quote]

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Shallowness on DCUM? Impossible!

I'm an atheist. I was educated as a Catholic and went searching through multiple religions before finally accepting that I am an atheist. I tried really hard to be something other than atheist, but I just couldn't believe.  I don't think Christians or other religious people are lost or confused. I think they are in denial. We are conscious beings living in rotting meat machines. When we die, we're done. There is no meaning to life, except the meaning that we create. That's tough stuff, and existential fear keeps many people from accepting the truth.  I don't say this to people who believe, of course. It angers me when adults use religion to project their anxieties about death, sex and morality on other people in abusive ways. (Hello, Westboro Baptist Church!)

I appreciate the artist analogy, but I would add this. I can look at a painting that includes fairies and dragons and angels and appreciate it for its beauty (if it's well done), but that doesn't mean that I believe in ACTUAL fairies and dragons and angels. I like to read fantasy novels. That doesn't mean that I believe in elves and dwarves. Marianne Moore described poetry as creating real toads in imaginary gardens. Religion tries to insist that the imaginary garden that it creates is real.

I don't find atheists to be pedestrian souls who don't appreciate beauty or meaning. The world is an amazing, diverse place. It's beautiful and full of more strangeness and wonder than anyone could ever appreciate in one life. People are fascinating - capable of both extraordinary good and extraordinary evil. What more could I want?[/quote]

Very well said, PP. I feel this way too...raised Catholic, and am now agnostic. I wish I could believe that there's someone watching over us and that good behavior will grant me entrance to some fantastical afterlife, but I've always known in my heart that that's not the case. I find religion fascinating, especially in a historical context, and I find most religious people to be lovely, multifaceted human beings - just like non-religious people. [/quote]

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