Teen Atheist’s personal tenets
Everything I believe in (including a handful of non-atheism related tenets), summarized in bullet points. Feel free to add if you can think of anything!
- There is no god.
- If anyone’s gonna be God here, it’s Bill Maher.
- If you’re not harming anybody physically or emotionally, it isn’t a sin.
- If you sin (be it by my standards or yours), you won’t go to hell when you die. But you will be an asshole.
- I treat others the way they treat me. Hence, my friends think I’m sweet and thoughtful, while my family thinks I’m a reincarnation of Damian from The Omen.
- Not believing in the existence of a god does not make me “misguided,” so don’t go “Oh, she just doesn’t know any better.” Bitch, please. I’ve been studying the Bible for the nine years I was enrolled in my Catholic school (from prep to seventh grade), and after years of serious consideration, finally decided that it was bullshit.
- If you make generalizations on the kind of person someone is based on his or her race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, political beliefs, etc., then you’re a bigot and I hate you.
- If it took you upwards of two minutes to catch the irony of the above statement, then you’re kind of slow.
- I’m not a saint, and I do judge people, but only based on their actions.
- I refuse to theorize on why God doesn’t exist, or attack and try to “convert” those who believe. I simply don’t believe (the term for this is “apatheism” — portmanteau of “apathy” and “atheism”), and it’s none of my business whether or not you do.
- Similarly, I hate people who try to shove their religion down my throat (looking at YOU, Mother Dearest)
- To summarize the above two bullet points: I think atheists who condemn religious people for being “idiots” are just as bad as fundamentalists who condemn atheists for being “evil.”
- “In God We Trust” on the US dollar bill? Rude!
- “One nation, under God?” Rude!
More tenets to come as I think of them.
Bill Maher over Richard Dawkins?! Blasphemy! :p
Hee! Cut me a little slack, I AM a newbie at this.
*rushes off to Wiki Richard Dawkins*
Besides, I’m more into the political viewpoint than the scientific one.
And Maher’s just so quotable!
Except on vaccines…
Er, what do you mean, Valhar2000?
I’m kinda slow …
Hee! That’s okay, sadrok.
Maher is anti-vaccination, one of the supporters of the mercury-thimerosal-autism hypothesis, *gasp* thinks the Germ Theory is bs and, accdg to what I’ve read, seem to commit a lot of logical fallacies in his arguments about the mentioned topics. How he believes that vaccines compromise/weaken a non-immunocompromised individual’s immune system is beyond me.
But, he seems to be reasonable when it comes to other topics like religion and politics.
I admit I’m not aware of every single one of Maher’s opinions (I mostly know just the religion- and politics-related ones), but I still like the guy. He’s smart and hilarious.
richard dawkins is god.
No. I think Joe Satriani is.
Hey, if we’re going there, I think Thom Yorke and Bjork are co-gods.
I agree. We should make this God family tree, just like how the Greeks did it. XD
bill maher is my god
Maynard James Keenan is God. Kidding.
I am.
You don’t know who Richard Dawkins is?! Shame on you.
B-b-but it’s a learning process! T_T
You’ve got a great teenager attitude. I love it.
And Richard Dawkins is not god.
He’s not? Well, he might as well be. XD I’d want to be his first Pope. XD
Thank you! *hugs*
Lies!
Killer argument. They teach you that in philosophy class, Martin?
Damn my arse to hell for being technical, but I guess all those literates who took control of the illiterates were gods. Anyways Bill Maher is dabom. Richard Dawkins…he’s cool.
The fear of all vaccines is uncalled for. Only some of the mandated vaccines are actually toxic. Sleep well :).
I gotta agree…Richard Dawkins = The Best
[...] Teen Atheist’s personal tenets [...]
There is no god… And Richard Dawkins is his prophet
As many people say: “colbert is God”
Hey, just stumbled on this page from some other atheist blogs.
I read this
“If you make generalizations on the kind of person someone is based on his or her race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, political beliefs, etc., then you’re a bigot and I hate you.”
giggled, then moved to the next point
“If it took you upwards of two minutes to catch the irony of the above statement, then you’re kind of slow.”
Then actually laughed out loud - it took me about 2 seconds. Thanks for making me feel smart and able to read irony!
I’m a 19 year old female from australia, and I can’t imagine what it’s like to be such an extreme minority in your country. Granted there are many religious types here, but I’ve never had to be a ‘closeted atheist’.
Good luck with everything happening in your life at the moment - this blog is a good read.
“There is no god.
If anyone’s gonna be God here, it’s Bill Maher.
If you’re not harming anybody physically or emotionally, it isn’t a sin.
If you sin (be it by my standards or yours), you won’t go to hell when you die. But you will be an asshole.”
If there is no God (which I would enjoy seeing you prove), why talk about a concept of ’sin’, or even more self-refute, a concept of hell. What is sin and hell if you can prove there is no God?
Playing more of a ‘devils-advocate’ (pun intended), how can hell (a non-material non-physical location, but rather a spiritual eternal location), exist while the non-material non-physical spiritual eternal God cannot.
Rather flawed logic.
Unless you can point me out and empirically prove this ‘hell’ and this ’sin’, with empirical science.
PS: No insults intended in any of the comments, just inquiry into your profile explanation and concepts of Hell and Sin.
LOL, “flawed logic”? I see someone took what I said a little too seriously. Also, straw man fallacy, much? I said “you won’t go to hell when you die” because duh, there is no hell. And my concept of sin is inflicting harm on other people. I may not call it a “sin” myself (more like “being an asshole”), but it’s a similar concept.
Ok, thanks for clarifying the non-existence of hell.
Why is being an a-hole a bad thing?
I’ll leave you to figure that one out for yourself, sweetie.
No. It was a serious question concern moral rights and wrongs. I am interested in how you, as an Atheist, justify things being right or wrong. I always see such error in the moral system of the Atheist World-view, especially if they take into account a relative moral system (which is the end result of the worldview to my understanding).
How does the Atheist argue that being an a-hole is a bad thing…? If you care to cope out with your previous comment, go right on ahead. Taking a moral system for granted is always much easier.