The Atheist God

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Monday October 07, 2013 · 3:04 PM PDT

2013/10/07 · 15:04

An odd title I know, but maybe not as odd as one might think. I am an Atheist in the purest sense, but I am still in some ways forced to contemplate God, though it may not be my own. The world is full of religious people whom we must interact with on a regular basis. Being a bookseller I interact with many faiths and I am at peace with all of them. Religion only becomes an issue when it forces itself upon me, but how others may choose to devote themselves is an intrinsic human right in my eyes.

Should one choose to kneel 5 times a day facing Mecca, have midnight mass on Christmas Eve, or choose not to do any kind of work on the Sabbath, its just a personal expression of the same fundamental thing. There are dozens, if not hundreds of religions, but they are all just different ways of doing the same thing.

They are all a form of devotion to something far greater than us...

In this sense one can almost call 'science' the 'God' of atheism, for it is where one puts their stock in many questions often left to religion. It answers the questions we can not instinctively answer on our own, but only the religious see it this way and I doubt you will find many atheists who would agree, for atheism is the absence of religion. Not a variant of it.

So for fun I thought "What if I was shown proof there really was a God, what would I expect it to be?" How does an atheist express God? Follow me over the orange paradoxal filigree of philosophy and I will share my atheism and my 'God'.

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Are you...

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Are you...

Atheist?

37 votes

Agnostic?

8 votes

Religious?

3 votes

or too hungry and must eat pie?

6 votes

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Saturday July 06, 2013 · 3:02 PM PDT

2013/07/06 · 15:02

Welcome to my first battle of the diaries!

It just looks like its the perfect moment to get this out there...

From the help section:

"If your comment was hidden, the community basically agrees that your comment was damaging to the site and should not be viewed."

That is the criteria for hide rating, being 'damaging' to the site. That is a pretty high bar and I believe its meant to be so because this is a site for the mixing of ideas. Stifle this and much of the power and value in this site is lost.

Please join me below the orange souffle of Anti-Censorship

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Sunday May 12, 2013 · 6:10 PM PDT

2013/05/12 · 18:10

Then show how much you hate those who commit adultery. Its one of the 10 commandments and yet there is almost no outrage! Why are adulterers permitted to see their spouses in the hospital? Why aren't you trying to take away that right?

Now I'm not gay or even 'pro gay' per se, but more libertarian minded in that to each their own. I can even understand someone of extreme religious views making a big deal if something was so against their religion.

That is if it were sincere...

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Thursday August 02, 2012 · 3:21 PM PDT

2012/08/02 · 15:21

The state of American politics today seems so fubar I can barely comprehend it. It makes so little sense i'm both intrigued by it and at the same time I find it almost depressing. How did we get here? And more importantly how do we get away from here?

Follow me below the fine orange filigree to see what I mean...

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Sunday June 17, 2012 · 1:26 PM PDT

2012/06/17 · 13:26

Free Trade...

I know this is seems like a simplistic view, but it is truly the nutshell.

They continuously touted how Free Trade agreements would allow us to sell more things overseas.

It was a lie...

See we are an importer nation who takes in much more from the world than it sends out and if you remove all trade barriers the sides of that equation (Imports>Exports) just multiply and will always benefit the already larger side. The trade barriers weren't there to prevent us from selling in foreign markets they were there to protect us from foreign markets.

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Do you think that if we canceled all Free Trade agreements and reinstated Tariffs, that it would vastly improve the American Economy

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Do you think that if we canceled all Free Trade agreements and reinstated Tariffs, that it would vastly improve the American Economy

Definately

18 votes

I thinks so

9 votes

Not sure

2 votes

I doubt it

3 votes

Absolutely not

4 votes

Pie

2 votes

First

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Tuesday November 15, 2011 · 12:29 AM PST

2011/11/15 · 00:29

they ignore you...

Over the first couple weeks of the #OWS movement there was hardly a blip on the radar of the mainstream media. Thousands of protesters in dozens of cities and yet hardly a peep.

then they laugh at you...

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Sunday August 28, 2011 · 1:24 AM PDT

2011/08/28 · 01:24

I don't.

Now you probably don't know me and you probably don't care. I've been around a little while, written some diaries (mostly poor ones) and have made my share of comments (mostly relevant ones I like to believe).

But, not so much anymore...

Why? Seems the place has gone crazy, well likely its always been crazy but just more obvious now. People are getting so caught up in their point of view they are unwilling to allow others a difference of opinion.

I admit that in some ways I can understand, if one thinks XXXX will allow the Republicans to win and take over the world, and someone else is XXXXing then there is a rational (be it real or imagined). There may even be some truth to it. Even so we still need to be allowed to express our opinions, even if it makes President Obama lose in 2012.

And on the other side you have people who go bonkers because someone else really likes the President. I can't imagine why anyone would feel the need to start a fight in a post that says nice things about the President. I mean hes not the devil incarnate and you must be able to see why others may think more highly of him than you do.

Free speech and the free trade of ideas is what makes a Democracy tick. As soon as both sides are just repeating the party line its over.

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Sunday December 20, 2009 · 11:34 AM PST

2009/12/20 · 11:34

I've been thinking about this idea of a 'mandate' to buy health insurance. Fundamentally the federal government is saying that we must purchase a private product or we will be committing a crime.

Now here in California if you own a car you have to own auto insurance as well or you will be breaking the law, but you don't have to own a car and thus are not 'forced' to buy car insurance.

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Thursday December 18, 2008 · 1:16 PM PST

2008/12/18 · 13:16

Oh, he didn't?

Well, Obama selects Warren for a high level cabinet position!

No?

Well, what did Obama for Warren that has everyone up in arms?

Name him man of the year?
Religion czar?

No!

Well what did Obama do that was so horrible?

He's letting him say a prayer at the inauguration.

Thats it?

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Wednesday August 06, 2008 · 11:22 AM PDT

2008/08/06 · 11:22

The trolling here has become so pathetic and unentertaining that I thought it would be a good idea to give a few pointers.

Remember, though McCain points are fleeting, a true master of trollery can become immortal in the eyes of the DK community.

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Friday August 01, 2008 · 4:14 PM PDT

2008/08/01 · 16:14

Of course I'm not saying Obama shouldn't pick a VP at all, just that we shouldn't.

Everyone seems to have their favorite for whom Obama should pick for this important position (especially give how much more important and powerful it has become over the last few decades). There are many viable candidates to choose from and many important reasons to choose them. That is why I don't think I can choose the best candidate better than Obama and his staff can.

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Sunday July 27, 2008 · 12:24 AM PDT

2008/07/27 · 00:24

The more I think about the current presidential election the more I just shake my head in disbelief. What is it that I find so hard to believe? That there even needs to be an election at all (though of course I mean this figuratively). Forgeting everything else, we have one of the best campaigns in American history being run against what has got to be one of the worst. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

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