Im Just Saying

I devote a lot of bandwidth policing the inconsistencies of other groups. I rant and rave about religious groups, political groups, and labor groups working against their greater self interest for the greater good in favor of short term but meaningless wins over their enemy of the week. But the time has come for me to police a group I generally claim membership to, though their antics of late have earned as much scorn from me as I give their polar opposites.

From KENS 5 of San Antonio
Emotions ran high last week when an atheist group asked UTSA students to trade in their Bibles for pornographic magazines.

On Monday afternoon, the group set up a table on campus for their “Smut for Smut” trade offer. The group featured a sign at their table that read, “Trade in Holy Text 4 Porn.”

Nearby, some students gathered in protest by reading their Bibles and praying.

After the event, the atheist group posted on their Twitter page, “Too often are we ignored this seems to get people to actually talk to us instead of ignore us.”

The atheist group tells KENS 5 that it will donate all of its Bibles to local libraries.

This comes after bus ads ran last year in Seattle with such tag lines as “Yes Virginia, there is no god.” Atheism is the absence of faith, but this growing movement of (capital A) Atheism is a faith in absence; the absence of God. These ridiculous antics draw negative attention to a people who are supposed to want no attention whatsoever. It also mobilizes the faithful to demonize the faithless and push policies through sympathetic legislatures that damage our society. Atheists shouldn’t taking potshots at Christians (etc etc). Atheists shouldn’t give two shits except in situations where religious belief is being indoctrinated in to our laws. My atheism is not a desire to destroy theology, but a desire to live under my own code based on the reality of our society. I don’t need an explanation for everything that happens. I accept that there some things in this world that I do not understand and probably never will, that sometimes things happen seemingly without explanation.

So I’m calling a Shut it down, Americaon these fascist Atheist groups that expend there energy trying to destroy a group that, by definition, cannot be destroyed by propaganda. Drop your sanctimonious attitude; the faithful are not your enemy, you shouldn’t have the time or desire to fight them. Atheism (little a) is not a movement or a practice or a belief; go about living your life and accept that some people (in fact most people) disagree with you.