When I’m too tired to write, I like to make lists. All kinds of lists. It’s time\/cost\/benefit efficient.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 I’m in great company. All the intellectuals I like to objectify were\/are atheists. (I’m not implying causation here, but maybe a bit of correlation.)<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 The only discrimination I’ve experienced for being an atheist is that someone refused to sell me a dog. That’s OK, I got a better one. And if I’ve ever experienced other discrimination due to my [lack of] religion, I’m blissfully unaware.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 I don’t have to go to Church on Sundays. The kind of dressing up I like to do wouldn’t go over very well in Church anyway.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 I don’t have to go to heaven. Because that would be hell.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 I can take credit for my own accomplishments, and don’t have to run around thanking something that doesn’t exist for what it didn’t do.<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0 I can base my morality on my own sense of right and wrong, and not what someone told me.<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0 My opportunity to learn about the world has no boundaries. There are no questions I can’t ask.<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0 There are very few atheists in prison.<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t have to wonder about why a bat is a bird.<\/p>\n
10. I don’t have to subscribe to any particular dogma, godma, or ideology.<\/p>\n
11.\u00a0 When I’m alone (or with a partner) I have total privacy.<\/p>\n
12.\u00a0 I can get along with people of all religions, as long as they’re nice people. There are no artificial barriers to my friendship.<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0 I don’t think I’m better than anyone else.<\/p>\n
14.\u00a0 I don’t think I’m worse than anyone else.\u00a0 (OK, I do, but humor me.)<\/p>\n
15.\u00a0 I can still have imaginary friends because I have Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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