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Atheism and God
What is God? To the homosexual, it is the voice telling them, “No, you can’t.” To a woman, it is fear and unjust treatment. To the children, it is the parent, driving them down the path already carved by politicians, priests, parents, and ancestors instead of forcing their own. To the rape victim, it is the graveyard of trust in their womb, unable to be removed, for fear of being shamed or even killed. God to an atheist is the blatant disregard to science and facts. Hell to me is nothing more than an exclamation of disbelief.
Just yesterday I saw several stickers expressing disgust for people like me, reading “America is freedom of religion, not from it.” Those stickers left an empty feeling in my stomach, leaving my faith in humanity to be run over by a parent shuttling their children from Walmart to soccer practice.
Our world is tiny. We are but a single grain of sand in the ocean of our universe. To think that we, a mere speck on the map, an insignificant dust particle in the wind, have everything figured out is incredibly vain, in the words of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Even if we did, why stop questioning? Why settle for one theory, rather than explore and wonder why? The fact that even after being proven, theories like the big bang are still disregarded as guesses to the church.
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