Atheist Sermon.

[onebox30]

I have finally started writing what I see in the world and within myself. If someone who is an atheist would like to hear a heart-felt confirming, enriching, yet often challenging message, I'm doing a blog. Hopefully, I can maintain it but I prefer to just speak to people. We'll see how this goes...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=183927&view=public

[EST]

1. Athiests don't do sermons.

At least this one doesn't.

[abluelady]

2. I may not do sermons

but I certainly go off on diatribes.

[onebox30]

3. I don't mean to preach.

I am always open to suggestion. We all should contribute to the future.

[EST]

5. I was trying to be funny.

Actually I'm a twice ordained minister and an atheist, although I call myself a bright. Still don't do sermons, though, at least not anymore.

[hobbit709]

4. Have you read

the Agnostic's Prayer by Roger Zelazny? It's one of the funniest things ever written.

The Agnostic's Prayer--Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness 1969

Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what
I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have
done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not
forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit
for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask
that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be,
in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in
my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which
may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your
receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and
which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.

[EST]

6. Heheh!

I remember when this hit the stands. I seem to recall that was the time when modernization was hitting the religious cults and the bibles were all being retranslated, updated and modernized.

Ah, the days when space travel was still possible, parallel worlds were right next door and faster than light travel was only a worm hole away.

[onebox30]

7. I wasn't meaning to be funny.

I'm just trying to share how I feel, help and learn from other people.

[catbert836]

12. Isn't an agnostic

just an atheist without balls? - Stephen Colbert

[rzemanfl]

8. I was raised to believe that all organized religion was detrimental

to the human race. Recent events, and those of the last several thousand years, demonstrate that I was raised right. In keeping with my beliefs, I will avoid your blog, as it smacks of organization of some sort, however minimal. Abstention from religion is a lot like a religion and dangerously akin to a "faith" if shared with strangers. Good luck with it though.

[onebox30]

9. Try reading it before you judge.

I would like to discuss the future implications for the inevitable spread of non-dogmatic theologies and atheism. We are being released from the bonds of ignorance, for better or for worse.

[rzemanfl]

10. You lost me when you called Reagan a "great visionary." n/t

[NMMNG]

11. Ronald Reagan had deep compassion?

The man who threw mentally ill people out on the streets to fend for themselves? The man who created the stereotype of the "welfare queen" so millions of poor people to this day are treated with scorn and derision (not to mention have difficulty getting assistance)? Aye caramba. :crazy:


Other than that your essay had some salient points.