{"id":2612,"date":"2011-04-19T18:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T01:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2011-04-20T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:37:07","slug":"reflections-on-atheism-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=2612","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Atheism (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given how I have a habit of irritating atheists<\/a> over my claim that it *IS* a religion or at the very least<\/em> a system of beliefs<\/a>, I should probably be keeping my mouth shut right now<\/a>. Anyone who knows me is going to laugh at the thought of that happening.<\/p>\n

So.<\/p>\n

I have a couple atheist blogs that I read daily and I just finished I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith through an Atheist’s Eyes<\/a><\/u> by Hemant Mehta. One of the blogs is by an atheist Yale student<\/a> who is arguing faith issues with her boyfriend and the other two (Blag Hag<\/a> and Friendly Atheist<\/a>) are atheist activists. Friendly Atheist<\/a> is the blog that grew out of Mehta’s book.) I occasionally comment along the lines of “that’s so not how we Christians are” and I generally keep my mouth shut on other entries because they’ve become “let’s rag on Christians” threads and I have no interest in those.<\/p>\n

One thing that seems to be a common thread is how Christians subjugate the rights of atheists and how Christians believe that atheists have no morals. In the next few weeks, I’ll be addressing these two subjects in blog posts.<\/p>\n

First, however, I should probably make it clear that I’m a convert to Christianity and that I spent the first part of my life as an atheist\/agnostic. My family isn’t religious and my dad can actually be quite anti-religious, especially when it comes to fundamentalism of any kind. If nothing else, I *do* understand how obnoxious it is when people come up to you and try to “win your soul” or “convert” you. In my case, it made me afraid of finding a church after I converted because I was afraid people were going to yell at me about why my family wasn’t there. (The opposite was true — people were chill about it.) Having said that, I’m not going to mock any atheists\/agnostics\/humanist\/freethinkers though I reserve the right to say that the way they are going about things is wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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