For all you atheists, agnostics and humanists who have lost your way - please read this [View all]

[Stuckinthebush]

It is so easy to stray from the path and I understand the temptation. The path is full of dangers if you stray. I have in the past and I am here to warn you of the otherwise small and seemingly insignificant steps that take you away from Truth.

It starts at a family gathering when you are asked to pray. You don't want to fuck your sweet Aunt's world up at the moment so you bow your head and go through the motions. You may get a smartass sideways look from your teenage daughter but you just do it. It is so much easier than ruining the "mood".

Then, around Christmas your loving spouse or mother or father says, "Hey, it would be great if you could come join us at church for the service. We would love to have all the family there." You do it. You dress up and sit there and think, "This is ridiculous". But, you don't want to be the ass in the room so you go.

Then your friends are talking about how a tragedy happened in your town and that they are glad that the families have faith families to help them through tough times. You don't want to be a shithead so you just nod.

Little steps...next thing you know you have those pre-programmed messages just creep back into your head. You start thinking about the spirits of your dead relatives or the warmth of a deity embracing you during a troubling time.

Snap out of it!

It is freaking hard to live in a Christo-centric world while you are bombarded with these messages all day every day. Especially if you grew up in a faith-based family and had to deconstruct all of those messages over the past 30 to 60 years of your life. Those wires have a way of re-connecting way too easily.

I think that forums such as this and weekly "church" services of videos from the Thinking Atheist help.

I would like to thank Gore1Fl for posting the Lawrence Krauss video last week. I watched it today and said, "Aw, hell yeah!"

Blessed be the non-theists. For they will think for everyone else.

Amen.