MiloCast

I’ve been hearing a lot of propaganda recently — people making claims about atheists not believing in anything, not being caring people, and having no basis for morality. These are all vicious lies.

There is only one thing you can say about atheists: They don’t believe in any gods.

That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. Other than that, they’re exactly like everyone else. That is to say, they’re all different, and you can’t put any other labels on people who are atheists without being wrong. You can’t even say that they claim there are no gods. Some say there absolutely aren’t any, and some say there certainly could be — just that there isn’t any evidence which convinces them that they do.

Look at it this way: Let’s say there was a word for people who don’t believe in the Tooth Fairy. Is there anything you could possibly say about all of them? No. You wouldn’t say that they’re better or worse parents, that they worship Satan, or that they all hate broccoli. You can only say that they don’t believe in the Tooth Fairy. Same goes for atheists.

In fact, atheist shouldn’t even be a word. It’s just a default state of all people. Everyone is an atheist until someone convinces them to believe in a god. The only reason such a word exists is because so many people are theists that a term was considered useful to identify those who do not accept a certain human-invented concept.

That’s really all there is to it. If anyone says differently, they have an agenda and are willing to lie to promote it. Take no claims at face value — look into the facts yourself before you accept something about a group of people and use it to judge them.