Why I care

Callandor

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Tuesday June 12, 2007 · 10:19 PM PDT

2007/06/12 · 22:19

I am an atheist. Run in fear if you believe the nonsense peddled around about people like me in the rancid swamp called "conventional wisdom." I'm apparently a militant person who will burn all the things you cherish, I have no morals, so I will rape and kill you, anyone you know, and I will take your kids and "indoctrinate" them into my Satanic religion of anything-goes. I'm worse than Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, bin Laden, Saddam, and anyone that can't do anything but exude pure evil. Heck, I'm even worse than Harry Potter.

Needless to say the overall stigma attached to being an atheist is bullshit and almost everything said about atheists by people who themselves are not atheists is false. One of the most pernicious is that atheists don't care about anything, are all moral relativists or nihilists. Hence how the question can come up so often, almost always by people who are for some reason insulted that I don't believe as they do: "Why do you care?"

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