Atheists are People Too.

"I never told my religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged others' religions by their lives, for it is from our lives and not our words that our religions must be read."- Thomas Jefferson

I usually don't have a problem admitting that I'm an atheist, which means that I don't believe in God. I don't believe in the Christian God or any God at all. I;m not trying to turn this blog post in to any type of debate at all. However, I find myself pretty offended about the many negative stereotypes about my nonreligous world view. When I was 19 I decided to make a facebook group called "Atheists are People Too." (The blog title is a link to the group) in hopes of explaining what it actually means to be an atheist, at least to me.

I invited the small handful of my friends who were atheist/ agnostic and just left it at that. I didn't promote the group in anyway and it grew to over 200 members all on it's own. I would like to share what I wrote about atheism in that group here. Kinda just to get the word out. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can clarify my point any better. Thank you in advance.

-Directly from my facebook group:
This is a group for people who are offended by the Stereotype that comes along with admitting to being an atheist. Most atheists are good people with strong morals just like everyone else. Studies have shown that only .05% of the American population are atheist.

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."Albert Einstein

A Newsweek poll found that 26% of registered voters think that Atheists are inherently immoral, only 29% would vote for an Atheist, and only 3% called themselves Atheists.

Atheists do not:
-Hate God.
-Preach against God.
-Worship anything.

This is a group for Atheist and Agnostic people alike, as well as Christians that understand that Atheist are people too.
Join this group if you are Atheist or Agnostic! Just in case there is any confusion...

Atheist = One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods
Agnostic = One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God, or one who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism

This group is not meant to offend those with differing religious beliefs, and is not meant to promote Atheism or Agnostism. This group simply reflects our views and we ask others to be tolerant and understanding, as we are of others' religious ideals.

FAMOUS ATHEISTS, FREETHINKERS, DIESTS, AGNOSTICS:

Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Darwin, Ayn Rand, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Galileo Galilei, Freidrich Nietzsche, Helen Keller, James Madison, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Napoleon Bonaparte, Dr. James Watson, Denis Diderot, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, George Orwell, Charles Schultz, Mark Twain, Vincent Van Gogh, Thomas Jefferson, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Edison, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Paine, Jean Paul Sartre, Bill Gates, Virginia Woolf, Marie Curie

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"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism." – Einstein

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." – Einstein


"The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people." – Marx

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." – Napoleon

"I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force." – Mark Twain

"The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life."-Sigmund Freud


----- So guys, how alone am I?????

** Disclaimer: The picture on this post is a joke. Laugh. It's ok.**