The Challenges of Atheism
Holiday Treat
Horror is the thing that cannot be made safe. From the Believers’ perspective, atheists make life horrible because they make life unsafe. Which is to say, your beliefs are a lie, there is no afterlife, and this life is the only one you’re going to get.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed this or not, but we are not the good news people. The above message is a terrible one to base a cult on–which should be of some comfort to those who are afraid that their kids, or their parents, or friends, or spouses are part of some atheist “cult”.
We’re not “selling” anything except a world view based in fact. Yeah, the “new atheists” make a good living with their book deals and their speaking arrangements. Their only real message is “use your heads, people!”.
And that would make all of us very, very unsafe. Happy Halloween, everybody.