be a proud atheist

This continues to be hard for me. My Dad joined facebook, so I removed my “atheist” moniker from my page. I don’t know why, I’m sure he knows I don’t believe. I just didn’t want it to be right there, in print.

I wasn’t very proud today… My first hit on google was for richard dawkins’ website, where I was wishing him a happy birthday and proclaiming my atheism and bashing religion. I didn’t realize it was a public post, so I asked them to take it down and they did.

I feel slightly sheepish, but I don’t want that to be my first google hit… Maybe someday.

Who: Richard Dawkins
Age: 65
Know him as: Evolutionary scientist and author, most recently of “The God Delusion.”

Wonder is sexy. Knowledge is sexy. And embodying both as much as any man in the world today is a man in a tweed jacket riding his bike around the Oxford University campuses, the damp English breeze sweeping a curtain of silver hair from the delicate bones of his face. Yes, those cheekbones, those piercing eyes, that pursed bow of a mouth .. but that brain, oh that brain, oh, god, that brain .. is what makes Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and the most famous atheist in the world, the sexiest man around.

Dawkins is the professor I never had an affair with, whose very sentence structure threatens to weaken my concentration on the content of his words. Call me deluded: I ache for his atheism; I reel from his reasoning. He is my James Bond, a well-attired, fearless seeker of truth in the face of nihilism.

I dream of his perfectly-accented voice – Oxbridge softened by a childhood spent in, sigh, East Africa – whispering to me from his latest book, “The God Delusion,” a defense of endless curiosity in the face of omnipresent theism. “If the demise of god will leave a gap, different people will fill it in different ways. My way includes a good dose of science, the honest and systematic endeavor to find out the truth about the real world.” Take me with you, Richard: You put the “sex” in sexagenarian. Let us clinch in a godless embrace, crying out to what we know does not exist, searching, searching evermore.

—Lauren Sandler

Everyone needs to read “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins. Especially people who still believe in God.

I was travelling in Seattle and someone said “You’re from Kansas – so what religion are you?” and I was like “I’m an ATHEIST.” I’d call that pride.

Why are priests so creepy? Went to a wedding the other day – the message was “Die a little to yourself every day”. That way you can really be a loving spouse. Give up what you are interested in for the other person.

Freak.

I’m not having God at my wedding.

I’m tired of having to explain my lack of supernatural beliefs. For outward appearances, I will appear to respect the religious, but I think they are wrong.

Every time someone comes to my door preaching, I give them my point of view and it feels good.