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Pessimism
and or Atheism? (spoiler alert! - yes, Atheists are actually optimists usually)
I
don’t believe in “isms” – as words they’re useful but
otherwise they’re just buckets of terminology that our lazy minds
like to shove things into.
So
yeah, a lot of Atheists are colored in a negative light, for obvious
reasons by the religious, but I’m only interested in discussing the
less obvious right now: the association of the atheist with
negativity. Atheists might use the word “no” when asked about
their belief in God, they might negate or belittle pathetic evidence
supporting the existence of a god, but this doesn’t necessarily
mean that all Atheists are negative nannys full of active hatred for
the religious and religious things. Many Atheists don’t even call
themselves “Atheist” because it has a pejorative flavor to it,
and they don’t wish to evoke that reaction in the people around
them.
Most
Atheists live out their lives the same way the religious do except
they avoid the time sucking waste of going to services in church or
other religious time sucking nonsense. Some of these Atheists don’t
even think to use the word Atheist to describe themselves – but
even those who do won’t necessarily do anything a religious person
needs to be afraid of, like violence or criminal acts. Atheists
won’t come a knocking on your door to try to push their ideas down
your throat. If they gather in large groups, they’ll probably be
very civil about it and only engage religious who engage them first
in some manner, such as making ridiculous claims about hell or some
such other BS.
There
are no Atheist brain washing boot camps for troubled teenagers, but
there are for religion. There are no cults of Atheists. (No Cult
of Dusty https://www.youtube.com/user/CultOfDusty
