Should I Stay or Should I Go?: My Atheism Is Making Me and My Son Homeless

Atheism June 16, 2013 Comments: 6

I don’t know, man. I’m starting to believe strangers on the corner would treat me better than my “family“.

June 15, 2013 (my son just turned two on the 14th), I got into an argument with – wait, let me start from the beginning…

I’m staying with a relative long enough to get back on my feet. I made it clear to this relative that I’m not planning on staying here too much longer – seeing as I hate it here. Moving back into my childhood home; where I was neglected, abused, molested and used was the last thing I wanted to do, but it beats having me and my 2-year-old son out on the street. Trust me, if I had somewhere else to go, I would have taken that, anything would have been better than moving here.

I’m currently in school, but I’m out of work at the moment and for some reason, no matter how many job offers I apply to, or the amount of job applications I fill out and send, no one wants to hire me. I have to stay optimistic because I’m not about to spend another 6-months in this hell-hole. Moving on…

Anyway, I got into an argument with my grandmother about the bullshit she was telling people about me and all the lies she was telling them. She even set me up, telling me things about my own relatives that weren’t true and they were supposedly in on it to see what I would do about it. What kind of family does this? Then again, this is the same family that told me that someone is out to hurt me but they wouldn’t tell me who.

This argument wasn’t about religion in the slightest. My relative made low-blows on my personality, my character and tried to embarrass me in front of the very same relatives that are against me. To me, she only embarrassed herself. This relative brought up my past a lot and took jabs at my son. Then she decided to go lower than that and tell me she doesn’t trust me as well to tell me she doesn’t like that I’m an atheist. I simply told her that it’s my life and my choice. What triggered this low and petty blow was one word: goddamn. Yep, I was talking to one of the other relatives in the room and this holier-than a communion wafer screams “I won’t take you taking the lord’s name in vain in my house!” I almost laughed but I ended up looking at her like she had two heads.

I was speechless! This is the same woman who would sell you out, and get you jumped by some unknown person – mind you, this mystery person that was going to hurt me, never surfaced yet. So we argue some more and she simply says well you have a month to find somewhere to say because I don’t like your atheism in my house”. So I confirmed what I said earlier to her: “I know more about your bible than you do”…I think that pissed her off.

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:8

If someone’s religion was so sure, so great; what I say in vain shouldn’t matter. To kick me out because I said “goddamn” sounds like to me she was finding an excuse to even bring up my atheism.

My fans of the Facebook page told me that I should just lie and say she shown me the light to keep from being out on the streets. I don’t know how I feel about lying about that. I’ve never been known to bite my tongue or kiss anyone’s ass, I feel that it would be beneath me to start now. I was also told to respect my elders and their religion. I’m sorry, what? Respect is earned! Furthermore, I’m not going to respect a religion that enslaved a people – which are still slaves to that imaginary sky-daddy today.

Her reasoning to hold strong to her sky-daddy’s nuts? Her 45 surgeries and doctors telling her she won’t make it to see 18. She didn’t stop there. She then went on to say I’m not working and out of a place to stay because I’m an atheist. All I have to say is, if that’s all god can do to me then he’s a fucking idiot.

I’m not about to lie, I’m not about to kiss anyone’s ass to keep from hurting their feelings. Their feelings wouldn’t get hurt if they didn’t have such foolish beliefs.

Once I’m out of here, they’ll never hear or see from me or my son again. To kick me out, that’s fine, but to kick out my 2-year-old son because I’m not a sheep? That’s the lowest of the low. Fuck em’.

9 Questions Atheists Should Not Ask Believers (And Why) – WTF?

Troll Nation June 13, 2013 Comments: 5

The religidiots of Tumblr are at it again…wtf? We’re going to ask them whatever the fuck we want to ask them.

Nine Questions Atheists Should Not Ask Believers (And Why)

(Because I’m inspired by the article)

1. Why don’t you just believe in Science?

We do. The idea that science is a monolithic force in opposition to religion is every bit as ignorant as the idea that all religious people are equivalent, or all religions believe the same things. This question is simply another way of stating the claim that religious people are less intelligent or logical than a non-religious person. So… yes. It’s offensive.

And science is not in-and-of-itself sufficient to provide morality, purpose, and direction for one’s life. Not even an atheistic life. You might believe in the pursuit of knowledge, but that’s an entirely separate thought from PRACTICING science, or ACCEPTING scientific theories. Science is an ideologically neutral subject that provides direction on how to investigate the world. One cannot worship or have faith in science any more than they can base their morality on a guide to cooking.

2. Why do you have to believe in God?

Just to give atheists someone to argue with. You’re welcome.

There are plenty of philosophical reasons why someone might come to the conclusion that God exists. If you don’t understand those reasons, then I can suggest several great books. It’s offensive because it assumes that believers have no reason for their beliefs and have not given them any thought.

3. If Heaven is real, why don’t you kill yourself?

The value of life and avoidance of sin and whatnot, the fact that we’re not suicidal, life being too short and too wonderful… all likely similar to the reasons atheists might give for not killing themselves(other than sin). It’s almost as if most people are not that different from each other!

4. Who created God?

This is a misunderstanding of the contingency argument. It’s asked either because 1. You’re an amateur “philosopher” who doesn’t understand why asking this question is absurd and offensive to people who actually study philosophy, or 2. You’re asking someone who doesn’t know philosophy solely to confuse them and make them feel stupid without having a good argument of your own.

Either way, you’re being a jerk when you ask this. Or expressing ignorance, which is not so bad, if you admit that’s what you’re doing.

5. Have you read the ENTIRE bible/other holy book?

For one thing, most people would not define a Christian/member of any religion as “someone who has read X book.”- so the question has no philosophical relevance nor does it imply that the person not a member of X religion. For another, reading a book has nothing to do with understanding said book. Many atheists are good examples of that fact.

If the point of asking is to argue about how many people died/rape accusations/genocide/other horrors(which it usually is), then it’s an argument by outrage/appeal to emotion: A logical fallacy that has nothing to do with whether the religion in question is true or not. And arguments by outrage are inherently offensive- they are intended to be.

6. Why don’t you believe in Thor/Zeus/Mithra/Unicorns/The Flying Spaghetti Monster?

Can you give me a single reason why I should? Do you know a proselytizer of Thor that I should really talk to?

If not, It’s a red herring logical fallacy to bring up unrelated ideas to distract from the primary subject: Is MY religion the true one, or is MY belief logically sound? I don’t answer for anyone else’s, and logically, I don’t have to. The question is designed to avoid actual debate while attempting to demonstrate the religious person ignorant for not having an argument against .

7. Why would a loving God send anyone to Hell?

Because universal love and universal acceptance are not necessarily the same thing. Anyone with children could explain this concept: You love them, regardless of the unacceptable behavior they often demonstrate. The real question is, when would you cut your children off from your life completely? If they commit murder? Rape? Torture? If they ask you to cut them off from your life completely?

Hell is better understood as a chosen separation from God. But that aside, belief in Hell(and who goes there) has NOTHING to do with whether or not God is loving. It’s an inadequate assumption of a particular(false) definition of love, and another sort of argument by outrage fallacy.

8. If God exists, why is there evil?

If evil did not exist, then neither would God. The idea of good and evil are moral judgments that would be meaningless in an atheistic universe.

But as an argument against the Christian God specifically? The bible admits that there’s evil. It does a pretty good of describing it explicitly(Pretty sure most other religions justify evil as well). Personally, I think the question is ‘interesting’, but it’s also a philosophical one that’s older than dirt and written about just as much. If you were really curious, you wouldn’t be asking me. You’d read about it.

9. Why should blind faith be considered moral?

The Bible does not teach blind faith. But if a particular religion did, on what basis would blind faith NOT be moral? What is morality, and who decides that?

Beyond the fact that the question itself is logically absurd and poorly defined, it’s also an assumption that the believer is ignorant PURELY on the basis that they have belief. That’s an ad hominem fallacy. And is insulting and offensive.

All this said, the idea that a BELIEF should not be questioned- however offensively questioned- is utter nonsense. Everyone has beliefs. Everyone has questions about other people’s beliefs. Some of those questions will be offensive, because many people are jerks.

Get over it.

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Black Folk Don’t Do Atheism

Atheism June 5, 2013 Comments: 7

“When is the last time you met a black atheist? Having faith has been a long tradition for black folk in the US and across the world? So is it true that black folk don’t do atheism?”

People have the nerve to still ask me “what the fuck is a black atheist”? If this misinformed video isn’t even to show why I made this blog, my facebook page then, what else do you need to understand its existence?

Undateable Black Atheist

Atheism June 2, 2013 Comments: 8

This is disgusting that this kind of shit is celebrated. So, the man could be everything you want in that person, but if he’s not a sheep, like you, he’s undateable? WTF is wrong with you people?

I hope I never had to deal with this when it came to people I’ve dated, maybe it has something to do with me being a female and it being a catch-22.

Troll Nation: A Letter To Sarah Davis

Troll Nation May 28, 2013 Comments: 3

Dear, Troll…aka Sarah Davis,

I would like to discuss some things you said in a statement on BA‘s Facebook page. Which statement you ask? This statement:

The statement in question.

You know, I shouldn’t be the one that gives you your five minutes of shame, but if I don’t who will? You and Jade Black‘s irrational views of atheists hurts me to my core. The fact there are people as feeble-minded as the two of you, does something to me. This letter, to you and people like you is to discuss a few things you said in your statement. I’m sure this isn’t your first rodeo and you probably learned a few jokes and things you think may upset an atheist on the way, but this time, you chose the wrong page.

You may think what you said was original, but it wasn’t. Many people before you have said the same thing on the very same wall. You’re not creative or funny in the slightest. Jade Black is just morbid, I don’t see her as an individual, either. Her logic is: “I have a degree, but you don’t so until you prove to me you have a degree, I’m smarter than you“. Says who? Anyway, I’m trailing off the main subject of this letter. Let’s break that P.O.S down, shall we?

First of all, the only person that’s racist, is you. Black Atheists are rare and are hard to find because many of them hide behind the very religion they object to keep from losing the very people who they love. My page is not racists, neither are other diverse pages are racists. It’s that there are so few of us, that diverse pages exist. Reaching out to my people is not racist. Segregating bathrooms, restaurants, dance halls, schools, business, is racist. Lynching a man for whistling at a white woman is racist. Your comment, is racists. Do you not see the error in your ways? The hypocrisy? The contradiction?

Second, atheism does not equate to science, but that does not mean science is not relevant to the question whether there is a god, or not. We believe in what can be proven. We believe in peer reviews, theories, hypothesis’, and the like. That doesn’t mean we’re scientists. It just mean that you’re simple-minded and refuse to think outside of the box. All Scientists aren’t atheists, either; just wanted to clear that up, too. Atheists don’t claim to have definitive knowledge of whether there is a god, or not; there’s no science involved in that. Your immediate stance on what you think you know, shows you know nothing at all. So you lash out because of it – like a little girl not getting her way. Science has taken away more and more religious explanations for natural phenomena. Everything we learn from science and knowledge makes your god less and less likely to exist. We simply have no reason or need to describe our universe using supernatural explanations anymore.

I put religion down because I don’t like it? Can you, or anyone else, give me a reason to why I should like religion? The holy bible in particular speaks of slaves, misogyny, murder, rape, hate. Why would I not put it down? Your god is not love and peace like you think it is. It said so itself:

Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matthew – 10:34

Here’s another one:

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah – 45:7

It contradicts the first scripture, but you catch my drift. If your own argument is based off of my rejection of your god then, so be it. So the-fuck be it. Did you notice how you’re downing us for downing your religion because YOU don’t like it? Moving on.

Thirdly, I think you’re lying about this part:

“most atheists I know are poor, uneducated, and mean. Usually have no family or friends unless their friends are atheist, and they are usually on drugs, and sad with their life.”

You used that to push your agenda as well as used that as your reason to make your statement seem valid. Let me tell you, it’s not. Want to know why I think you’re lying? How could you be tolerant of those atheists long enough to “know” them and judge their way of living but, it didn’t take you all but 10 minutes to spew hatred on Facebook? I think I know why, the lack of fear of getting your teeth kick in, that’s why. I don’t think you get to know an atheist at all. I don’t know about the ones you “know” and I can’t speak for them but I’m not on drugs, uneducated, mean, poor, or pick and choose my friends. Would you mind giving me some kind of proof of these friends of yours, if you don’t mind? if they’re poor, I would like to see if I can help them out. Something it seems you’re not able to do since a lack in a deity is so beneath you. You’re despicable.

Lastly, I make a damn good parent. My son loves me and I, him. He knows nothing of this god, to him I’m his god. He came from me, I carried him inside of me for 9-months. He’ll be 2 next month and not once has he told me he hated me for not believing in a god. Children aren’t born believing in a god, they’re taught that later on. I sacrifice and compromise for my son because that’s what parents do, theist or atheist. A lack in a belief doesn’t make or break parenting skills. Another stab at things you don’t know. So if loving my son, giving him my all and my last makes me selfish then I’ll be that. You continue being a bigot and I’ll continue being awesome.

That concludes this letter.