I can be such a cheery character.

I’d actually play golf if it was anything like this as opposed to being a dull walk with expensive sticks.

I used to maintain that I was an atheist back when I was younger and felt that I had a point to prove about just how independent I was in thought and deed. Eventually I came to the view that the denial of deities is rather pompous and crass [...]]]>

Every discussion about belief.

I used to maintain that I was an atheist back when I was younger and felt that I had a point to prove about just how independent I was in thought and deed. Eventually I came to the view that the denial of deities is rather pompous and crass filled, as it is, with rather the same level of presupposition as theism.

Admittedly atheism is significantly more open to questioning what with its acceptance of proof – in the scientific sense – as an acceptable standard for discerning the existence of higher powers, but there remains a rather arrogant air about the whole mindset that I find distasteful.

I still find it more acceptable than religion as a concept – I mean, at least you can question it in a rational manner – but it really isn’t for me. This sort of bullshit doesn’t help either.

Alain de Botton reveals plans for ‘temple to atheism’ in heart of London

Writer wants to build tower to celebrate life on earth as an antidote to Richard Dawkins’ ‘destructive’ approach to atheism

Source: The Guardian

Atheist. Temple. I repeat; Atheist. Temple.

If that isn’t a pristine example of high-minded middle-class bullshit then I really don’t know what is. They really should build it though. If nothing else it will serve as a glorious paean to one man’s staggering hubris and provide the rest of us with a good laugh to boot. It’s a win-win.

That aside, I do find myself echoing Mr. Dawkins’ sentiment that atheists don’t need temples because, oh wow. I exist! What the fuck is that? A bird? No way, that thing is flying on air currents that I can’t see, with wings that are perfectly adapted to do so and it’s making that shit look easy. THAT IS AMAZING.

But yeah, a temple will definitely help people focus and be more astonished by the wonder of everything if they can’t already bring themselves to just look outside and realise they’re on a rock that’s hurtling through space around a giant nuclear furnace of unimaginable power and that IT. IS. MIND-BLOWING.

As for everything else well, apatheism pretty much covers it. Or doesn’t. Whatever.

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