MiloCast

Okay, so we have seen that atheism means nothing as a word, other than to distinguish non-believers from believers. Yet it seems that most of the non-believers whose voices are being heard are saying a lot of the same things. But if they’re not all in agreement on some kind of “atheist dogma,” then why do they tend to sound the same?

Well, once people lose the religious mindset, they tend to choose how to live their lives based upon reality. Although this should be more common, it is still fringe enough to have an organization started which names that as a specific goal. The Brights.

The Brights home page describes a Bright as someone with the following characteristics:

• A Bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview
• A Bright’s worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements
• The ethics and actions of a Bright are based on a naturalistic worldview

The movement seeks to take action to correct the marginalization of non-religious ideas where they are repressed by social and political means. They also encourage people who who match the description of a Bright to make their naturalistic worldview known; the more people see that we’re just normal people, pretty much like them, the easier it will be for us to be accepted on a large scale.

This is along the lines of what I’m trying to accomplish with my articles. I want to get people talking, in the hopes that discussion will cause people to think about things they have just assumed were true. Also, I want to expose some misconceptions people have about non-believers. Just by getting my thoughts out on the Internet, I hope I’m doing some small part to combat the false assumptions most people have about people like me.