Status Updates From Confessions of a Secular Je...

'It's probably time we put the lie to the notion that all of us "independents" are so free from shepherds.... We are all following something, whether we know it or not. It is better to consciously choose who or what we are going to follow.'

'Call it my naive idealism. Call it my foolish wish to live in a world in which I don't have to dispense or receive dehumanizing treatment. But I live in hope that this could one day be the norm, not the exception.'

'By doing all of this with our eyes open to our mortality and while harboring no sweet notion of heaven to console us, we are disproving that seculars crumble under the vast weight of supposed nothingness. We are proving, as the pithy slogan of the American Humanist Association puts it, that people and life can be "good without a god."' 3/3

'We are demonstrating every day that godlessness does not lead to the horrors that alarmist religion promoters warm us about. We are, for the most part, people who enjoy our lives. We are, by and large and imperfectly, good citizens who tend to our responsibilities, take care of our kids, love our spouses and parents, and try to make the world a fairer and better place. 2/3

'Despite shrill warnings about the nihilism to which secular living supposedly must lead, despite the claims that without God people are doomed to living life with no notion of good and bad - why not just kill for sport? - most of us in this wildly diverse collection of non-religious, nontheistic individuals are managing fine, more or less. 1/3

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