So I wonder a lot. What does that statement make most people think about me? I am an Atheist. I don't believe in god. Does that make a Satanist? A crazy magic-loving fool? Does that make a crack-whore? A punk-teenager? Does it make you think I am crazy, I hate people, I hate love and life and I am just angry?
I find more and more that these are the stereotypes pressed upon me. But here's the thing people: Atheist means that I have no belief in the super natural. This means no devil, no god(s), no angels, no heaven, no hell, no wizards. None of that.
And furthermore, I am not any more evil or angry than your next teenager. I am a vegetarian, I have straight A's, I am in band and on the Speech and Debate team, I have goals to go to school out of the country and I take Honnors classes and AP classes. So I don't believe in God, big deal. So I hate the American Government, get over it. Because we have freedom of religion and freedom of speech, I have the RIGHT to believe this and NO ONE has the right to tell me to believe otherwise.
We have recently created an Atheist Agnostic Alliance. (AAA). Today the president of AAA was on the school announcements. They ask him "What do you do here at Los Osos?" His response: "I am president of Peer Counseling and also Atheist Agnostic Alliance. They continue to ask him further questions that are ONLY about peer counseling. And I noticed this, cursing it amusedly in my head. But then the next class period my history teacher asks me if I watched the bear facts. I tell him yes, not knowing where he was going with it. Then he says "So I like how they asked Kevin about only the one thing when he said the....... other thing too." (He knows how obnoxiously liberal I am, and probably assumed my atheism, I'd imagine, from my essay response) And then I burst out with a bit of a rant. So we talked about it. How before when we had an atheist club the majority of people that came for it were from the orthodox christian club, trying to convert the kids. This is so wrong. Religion does not make you who you are. I have to say I find myself to be a kinder person than many christians that I know. And my other atheist friends are, too. We are all people. We have faults, we do wrong, we do right. We love, we hate, we cry. Being Atheist doesn't change that and neither does being Christian.
So I want people to try to think before I am placed into your little box of "Evil, devil-worshiping, freak." Because I am not evil, I do not worship the devil. Maybe I am a freak. But tell me what reason I have to believe in something that no one can prove to me. Tell me why I should base my life off of the false. I am not saying that anyone believing in god is wrong. But do me a favor, don't chase Atheists around with bibles, don't curse us, don't freak out and try to convert us. When you present to me solid evidence of the existence of god, heaven, hell, and satan, I will believe. I was raised half hardcore catholic, half hardcore christian. I know the religions, I know the bible. And I do not believe. But it doesn't change who I am.
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