I like to think of myself as quite liberal and tolerant of a lot of things. I have many friends who do not share the same pigmentation as me (my best friend is in fact a beautiful mix of Sri Lankan and Lebanese and she is Catholic).
I am atheist. I do not believe in a God like that of the three major religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam). I do not even believe in many gods like the Hindu’s. I believe in energy and atoms and science and Karma (what goes around comes around). Energy is transferred all around the world and we are just its conductors.
Energy givers and takers
When I find myself in the company of my best friend, we can do anything, we talk about everything and my energy levels increase to a height that I could not maintained by myself. It doesn’t matter how tired we were before we saw each other or how little sleep we had the night before. I feel positively energised.
However, there are friends who drain me. The conversation is always one sided (and leans towards them) and does not get much deeper than ‘where do you think she got those shoes from?‘.
Both types of friends are necessary (obviously you get all the different shades in between). My best guy friend is like the former, except he just recently told me that he goes to church and my immediate reaction was WHOA. And not the good whoa.
It was the crazy-scientology, bible-basher fearing kind of whoa. We have never lived in the same city despite the fact that we speak all the time. And I kind of feel bad for looking down on his church-going and not being supportive (after all my other energy-giver is Catholic).
But I think my reaction was indicative of my deeper feelings about church-goers rather than religion per say. Not having been raised in a religious family (my father and brother are atheists too), I have only been to church a handful of times and I was always uncomfortable with it.
Can you disprove the existence of God?
I think faith is either something you have or you don’t and atheists will never be able to convince believers that God doesn’t exist because how can you disprove a faith.
However, I think that Google has solved the problem once and for all:
(thanks to The Red Herring for this)
PS South Africa comes in third for searching Google with the word ‘atheism‘. Very interesting I thought.
Filed under: The daily unground | Tagged: atheism, atheist, christianity, church, energy, islam, judaism, karma, religion
