Atheist Girl

Wow, science really does explain why we're on this damn earth, worrying about people, emotions, and good deeds. I say everytime you're depressed, pick up that knife and stab your life away. Better yet, if you want to kill someone, go ahead, what are you scared of? I guess we should all be this limited and accept Science as the explanation for our useless existence. What are we but fucked up pieces of cells? The "soul" has no role in the shit we're doing to ourselves, and the lives of others in the dirt. At least, that's what I feel watching you guys take advantage of life. Be proud of your brain cells and physics. Because you just convinced lil' old me that we are nothing but pieces of biology, and this life is nothing to be taken seriously at all. Let's all gather round a science lab and kill ourselves. Better yet, kill each other. :)

Somebody seems to be pissed off. :)

Wow -- she must be one of those loving christians we hear so much about..

We are so lucky that Osama bin Laden, the Crusaders, and the judges in the medieval witch trials were religious! If they had been atheists, they might have killed people!

This also explains why all biologists, archaeologists, and other scientists eventually become serial killers. I'd been wondering about that for years.

Deena, you’ve sort of got all of that the wrong way round.

Atheists tend not to believe in after lives, although I’ll grant there are a few that manage to miss the god nonsense without catching onto the beauty and honesty of a naturalistic world view. But over all, most atheists think that this one life is it! This is the big one.

We don’t need souls because we neither see any evidence or reason for the existence of the self (whatever that is), after death. The result is that we tend to treat life as though it’s valuable. And I don’t mean just our own lives here. Atheists are far less likely to be involved in crime than theists, especially violent crimes including rape. We treat lives, both ours and others, as important now. We don’t wait for some sky faerie to make an eternal judgement over some poor fop that was just fitting in with the plan.

It’s not an option for us to assume that it’s all part of some greater plan that absolves us of taking it seriously. We recognise that it is what we do, right here and right now, that counts.

So if you think that not believing in god equates to “Better yet, kill each other :)” then before you insult us with this leap of nonsense you could do us the courtesy of explaining you thinking?

That book sounds good. I think I may have to pick that one up next time I do an Amazon order. Thanks for the tip.

Wow, it hurts to be proven wrong ALL THE TIME doesn't it deena? It seems to be making you angry.

Maybe you should be happy that us and our "fucked up pieces of cells" are able to experience consciousness even for a little while.

Do you realize what we're made of? Everything that was in the bang bang is in you and me. We ARE the universe, experiencing itself from multiple perspectives. That ought to make anyone think, not mad.