Submitted by Brian37 on December 19, 2006 - 8:25am.
"I am The Rational Response Squad" because I see no need to use ancient myth to guide my life. I see religion for what it is traditions of passing down fiction as truth. I am The Rational Response Squad because I do not need to live under fear of punishment or promise of reward to do what is right.
I am The Rational Response Squad because I see the needless division and bigotry that religion fosters amongst humanity. I am The Rational Response Squad because I want the great potential of the species to focus on practical issues such as hunger, dease and ending war insted of focusing on making ideology the alpha male of the world.
I am The Rational Response Squad because I see nature as just that without anthropromorphic magical characters manipulating atoms as a cartoonist would manipulate a character they were drawing. I am optimistic that the species is capable of breaking down these artificial barriers and can look at their neighbor as an individual. I am also practical in knowing that I am only one of 6 billion people and cannot dictate to all what should be in my mind.
We can live moral lives without deity belief. We are your neighbors and co workers and family. I am The Rational Response Squad because knowing that this is all their is makes it extreemly important to me to value what I have now.
We live in a great fantastic age where social barriers and labels and stereotypes are being shattered in the reality that every human has. WE all need food and shelter. WE all disire a stable life in our families and jobs and a future to look forward to. It does not take a deity belief to see this. It merely takes empathy for your fellow human. I am The Rational Response Squad because I see what we can be and am working to help free humanity from the shackles of fiction.
It wasn't wishful thinking that that dragged humanity out of the caves, it was brave questioning and introspection.
"I am every atheist" because
"I am The Rational Response Squad" because I see no need to use ancient myth to guide my life. I see religion for what it is traditions of passing down fiction as truth. I am The Rational Response Squad because I do not need to live under fear of punishment or promise of reward to do what is right.
I am The Rational Response Squad because I see the needless division and bigotry that religion fosters amongst humanity. I am The Rational Response Squad because I want the great potential of the species to focus on practical issues such as hunger, dease and ending war insted of focusing on making ideology the alpha male of the world.
I am The Rational Response Squad because I see nature as just that without anthropromorphic magical characters manipulating atoms as a cartoonist would manipulate a character they were drawing. I am optimistic that the species is capable of breaking down these artificial barriers and can look at their neighbor as an individual. I am also practical in knowing that I am only one of 6 billion people and cannot dictate to all what should be in my mind.
We can live moral lives without deity belief. We are your neighbors and co workers and family. I am The Rational Response Squad because knowing that this is all their is makes it extreemly important to me to value what I have now.
We live in a great fantastic age where social barriers and labels and stereotypes are being shattered in the reality that every human has. WE all need food and shelter. WE all disire a stable life in our families and jobs and a future to look forward to. It does not take a deity belief to see this. It merely takes empathy for your fellow human. I am The Rational Response Squad because I see what we can be and am working to help free humanity from the shackles of fiction.
It wasn't wishful thinking that that dragged humanity out of the caves, it was brave questioning and introspection.