Being a pure athiest or at least as pure as one can be, given my inability to prove it, I am often baffled by religion and the religious. It would also seems that the religious are often baffled by me. I think one of the main difficulties with the religious understanding athiesm, is that they look at it as just another religion competing with their own. The fallacy in this is that the absence of something is not just another form of that something. If I was in a room full of people, each of whom is holding either an orange, a lemon, or a lime, and I am holding nothing, that does not make my empty hand another form of citrus fruit. And like my empty hand is not an orange, a lemon or a lime, my atheism is not a religion, mearly the absence of one.
Being a lazy Sunday I thought it might be interesting for some to read why a person who is an atheist, in a world full of religions, got to be that way. This is not an argument intended to convince the religious to be otherwise, mearly one mans view of the great unknown.
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