MindRomp and Atheism page 1
Exi5tentialist 17th January 2012, 12:27 AM I was musing earlier, it's a pity MundRomp isn't an explicitly atheist forum. But then again, maybe it's a pity that atheist forums call themselves atheist. For isn't the best kind of atheism the kind that doesn't describe itself as atheism? After all, the one big gift of atheism to the world is the overthrow of all authority, because if we can get rid of God as an authority, despite being all-powerful and transcending all physical laws, then any lesser beings who care to claim authority over us (Dictators, Presidents, self-important moderators) can be discarded with even greater ease. And without any authorities to answer to, we are all actually free, including free to create a God and start worshipping him and believing in him. But if atheists deny this freedom by asserting that believing in God lies outside "the definition" of atheism, and such people cannot therefore freely act as free equals within ou...