I know that I put up a lot of post about religion, particularly the L.D.S. church, but it's for good reason. I am surrounded by it on a daily basis and it effects every part of my life. My family is all L.D.S., my coworkers are all L.D.S., most of my neighbors are L.D.S. and the majority of the people in my state are L.D.S. and finally the rest of them are mostly Christians. So needless to say religion comes up quite often no matter how hard I try to avoid discussing it with people. Its ironic that if someone challenges my beliefs they are trying to save me, but if I challenge theirs I'm tearing them down or I'm anti-whatever. its the biggest double standard I have ever seen.
This last Friday I was at my grandpa's house helping trim some trees and enjoying being with my brothers and father. At lunch time my grandpa asked me to say the prayer. normally I would have said no thank you and asked if someone else would like to, but I felt he did it to start a group "lets save Scott's soul" conversation. So I just sucked it up and said the prayer. I felt like such crap for cowering to another persons religious beliefs I had to write apology letters to both my brothers explain why I had made my self a hypocrite. Why don't people accept that you can be a great person with out religion? When asked what he believed, Abraham Lincoln said, "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion."
Lets just live and let live people!
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I think "moral" atheists are hard for religious people to accept. Without God we are supposed to be lying, cheating, rapists and when we're not it doesn't seem to fit. The great thing is, atheists are generally some of the most morally responsible people I know because they've actually taken time to analyze their beliefs.
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