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In my case it was not a conscious decision. It’s more like a rope that was slowly snapping thread by thread until one particular day when my mind was a bit busier than normal tackling the usual questions of the day (why evil? why poverty? why life is unfair? why many priests and bishops seem stupid or lying or ignorant? why? why? why?), the rope snapped completely - I “realized” that the existence of “god” and the hypotheses that are built around this “god” was what was distorting the picture of reality. That the reality that supposes the existence of such a being is an illusion we created; the universe doesn’t care and it doesn’t need a “god” to explain many things we - I - already knew. I wasn’t particularly examining the evidence for or against “god”. I was looking at the world trying to make some sense out of what I see and accept as obvious but I wasn’t being satisfied with the “standard” answers that were so far given me by the Truth authorities. I was trying to unintentionally systematize my thoughts and ideas by trying to resolve the fundamental issues not knowing what it would lead me to. I wasn’t even thinking that I was weighing “god” and the arguments for or against it. Then I crossed the line - it’s “god” itself that was muddling things. I didn’t know “god”, I was only made to believe it. At least that’s how I remember it.
I remember feeling proud and happy about my big “discovery”. 
How did you “decide” to become an atheist?
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When one is exposed to an act that supposedly showcases self-sacrifice and love that seeks nothing in return, it’s easy to get lost in the melodrama and forget the nuances of the entire situation. Who wouldn’t be moved at the thought of someone you don’t know willingly suffering through hours of flagellation and a brutal crucifixion? Who wouldn’t be humbled when someone regarded as superior voluntarily gives up the position to just be up to the mercy of crazed men?
Millions. Yes, those were rhetorical questions, but once you really take a step back from this overly romanticized lie fabricated by people from two thousand years ago, it would be clear that the logic that they used was clearly flawed if not terribly lacking. The idea of having a nobleman choosing to take of his fancy garb along with his status to be subject to the worst that man could dish out is touching to say the least, but one factor is different here. That nobleman is a mere human. He did not choose to be put into that situation and sacrificing himself for the supposed greater good were decisions that he made based on the limited variables that he could control.
Let’s try it this way then.
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Please click on the link to see the special Christmas video.
Update (1/30/2008): I found a WordPress plug-in that allows me to embed YouTube videos very easily. So here is the updated version of that video with small edits. See if you can spot the difference.
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In Jesus Christ country my dear Philippines, being an atheist can be so trying. If you tell people about your atheism up-front, and I am finding myself doing that more and more now than before such that nowadays I make it a point to do that all the time if I think it will clear things out and avoid any surprises, it becomes difficult to strike any meaningful conversation about why people believe what they believe without getting myself into debates that are sure to turn acrimonious. Often, the response is so-so, but sometimes it’s difficult for people to understand that you don’t believe because the concept of god - in all its nonsenseness - is for them self-evident. For most of my adult life, I thought I could sweep under the rug the question of “god”, to reduce it as a non-issue, but events the last five years woke me up from my long slumber to the reality that there are people bent on forcing their faith into shaping public policy that affects everybody believers and non-believers alike. If that be our collective fate, then let us bring the debate into the mainstream consciousness.
Is there really a god?
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Richard Dawkins statement in the Root of Evil “…there would be murderers all around the world who want to kill you and me and themselves because they are motivated by what they think is the highest ideal ….. the suicide bomber believes that in killing for his god he will be fast tracked to special martyrs’ heaven.â€
This chilling exaggerated scenario is probably designed to frighten the religious towards atheism but when considered closely is revealed as being very shallow. It has little to offer in the pursuit of enlightenment and rational scientific thinking. Continue Reading »
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Atheism. The very word sends chills down the spines of the religious right. Theists, particularly those from mono-theistic religions, have often hurled accusations against atheists, branding atheists as fools (” Only a fool says there is no God”), heathens and infidels. Throughout history, there are numerous instances of atheists being persecuted along with so-called heretics, witches and non-mainstream religious sects for not towing the line with mainstream religions.
More often than not, in the course of my debates with theists, I have had to explain my philosophical stance, because their preconceived notions of atheists are, at the very least, misinformed. Continue Reading »
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Recently, there has been a huge furore over the use of the word “faith”, in my fledging atheist yahoo group, Atheisthaven. A fellow atheist from Singapore, Hanchen, equated Atheism with faith, stating that an atheist has faith that God does not exist. A war of words ensued, and Hanchen was being accused of being “an agnostic masquerading as an atheist”. Continue Reading »
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As it turned out, it was the 197th anniversary of Darwin’s birth yesterday, February 12th. I would have totally forgotten about it if not for that article on Slashdot about Christians celebrating it as their own. Nothing really wrong or bad about it, but I wish they can be more vocal against their co-theists - the fundamentalists - and help stop the demonization of science in general and this person in particular, who in one fell swoop unified the many but disparate life sciences of his time - biological sciences, social sciences, anthropology, et cetera, and made it fit snugly and in complimentary fashion with the other theories of the non-life sciences of his time by discovering (Alfred Wallace discovered the same theory at about the same time) his theory of Natural Selection as the main driving force of speciation as put forth methodically in his landmark book Origin Of Species first published in 1859. Continue Reading »
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