I’m a Religious Atheist [View All]

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Recently, while studying among friends at my college library, a friend’s pal mentioned how he’d live his life entirely differently “if he didn’t believe in God”. When I hear statements like this, I contemplate how I was raised as a Christian, but have become an atheist. I remember how it feels to be on both sides of the table.

When I hear people claim how they’d live their lives as atheists, fulfilling all their immediate desires, not thinking of the happiness of others, I’m dismayed.

I find it comical how people believe that atheists only live for the moment, embracing a chaotic world with no meaning or purpose. To an atheist, civilization’s possible because humans fought against the indifference of nature.

Rather than ignore the needs of others, most atheists acknowledge that practicing awareness and sympathy for others is actually the best way to improve their own lives, because it produces a more stable, caring world for everyone.

http://unreasonablefaith.com/2011/09/30/i%e2%80%99m-a-religious-atheist/


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