The Sentence Heard 'Round The World

UGH! This post will explain my mood when writing the original Bloodline post.

So one day I was happily typing along in another forum, discussing Atheism with a few Christian Fundamentalists. Everything was kosher and everyone was being respectful until someone had the arrogance to say "I believe that deep down you believe in God, but you are just lost.". Apparently this is the sentence repeatedly muttered 'round the world to all non-believers at one time in their life. This was a first for me and it was not until later that I found this to be an overall view of many, many Christians.

Needless to say I promptly replied "Don't be so arrogant as to assume that you know what I believe deep down." I said some other things, but at that point I was fuming. They then replied "I was only being HONEST (my emphasis) and expressing my OPINION (again, mine) and if you take offense to that then that is your problem."

So I replied "Well I believe all Christians are pedophiles deep down. That's just my honest opinion." (Now let me point out right now that I DO NOT actually think that, I am much more RATIONAL than that, but I was making a point).

Well you can imagine the response I had to that post. I mean this person was so offended that I said that and how ridiculous and I am the devil, and on and on, you can imagine.

Then I simply replied "Now you know how offensive it is to me to say that you believe that I believe in God. I was just as offended as you are right now."

So let me ask you, atheists and theists alike, do you not see how that can be offensive to someone with my beliefs or shall I say lack of religious beliefs? Anyway, so that was why I was so upset the other day. Sheesh, the nerve of some folks!

As I stated earlier, apparently this is nothing new in the Christian sentiments and many believe that atheists have this latent belief in God. In fact they love to say that many atheists, on their death beds, cry out for God and ask for forgiveness before they die. This claim is just absurd. First of all that would require the atheist to believe in an after life, and by definition they do not.

In fact, I would place money that believers have a harder time dieing because they are too worried about whether they are going to heaven or hell. Dieing is a scary thing and I am afraid to leave the people I love, but I am not afraid of what comes after because I know.

Nothing.

And that is why I live every day in the present.