My Single Mom Life

"Antichrist FTL*. It gets annoying after awhile."
Oh it gets annoying after awhile? Welcome to our world then.
Let me explain.

Recently, a young woman I know is questioning her faith. To quote her; "I'm about 5 seconds from saying fuck god."
She said that god doesn't pay attention to the suffering in the world and all that jazz. She prays and prays and nothing ever changes.
I took that opportunity to talk to her about realities.
Before I did that though, I explained to her why we have suffering in the world according to the bible.
It all dates back to Adam and Eve. They chose to sin and not just live happy in god's paradise that he made for them. He tossed them out never to return. That means, none of their sons and daughters can return either until you die and your soul ascends to heaven, his new paradise.

She said she was afraid to live in a world without a god because it would suck.
I said to her, who says life without a god sucks?
Someone else chimed in that there is no god.
I was trying to keep her on track and not just slam her with reality. *sigh*
Anyway, this is exactly what I said to her;

How can they suck any more than they do now? Think about this.
Before, when times were tough, you prayed and you had faith that god was with you and it still sucked. Right?
In a new mindset, certain things will still suck but this time, you won't be thinking that some imaginary man is going to fix it at some point because you asked him to.
In a new reality, you would see that to make things un-suck, you have to take charge. You would have to see that you have some control over how things go in your life and that no outside force is doing anything to you.
If you choose path A, things will happen. If you choose path B, things will happen. And along either path, you will have more choices to make on your own, not just blindly follow their twisting turns.

Ugh dont dwell on the sad times and embrace the good times.

antichrist ftl.
gets a little annoying after a while.

Really? It gets annoying after awhile?
Try being a person who lives without god, and everywhere you go, you are bombarded with god messages. They come to your home, it's on tv in shows, it's on the news with people fighting to remove Happy Holidays because Christ is what Christmas is about. Try having your kids, who you raise secular, taught about Hanukkah and other religious traditions in public schools. Try waiting for a bus and have someone come invade your time to save you.

Those of us without faith are bombarded daily by those of you with faith and you call our little talks with people annoying after awhile?!

SEB just got one of those types of emails that I don't get too often, but I do get them.
Why do you atheists talk about god so much if you don't believe in him?
Why can't we?!
Don't you believers realize how much god talk and imagery we see every day? Do you have any idea how much of it is out there? You want us to just shut up about it because it's annoying?!
Hey! People! Listen to yourselves!
You don't even realize how much god talk is out there because it's your belief system that's out there all the time.
You get all freaked out when someone says Happy Holidays. Ridiculous.
Oh, if Christ is the reason for Christmas, you're doing it all wrong.
You need to take down your tree, send back your gifts and just sit around and pray.
Why? Because the Christmas you celebrate with a tree** and gifts and Santa Claus is a PAGAN holiday. That's right, a holiday made by people who did not believe in God.
It was to celebrate winter solstice.
/off

To those of you annoyed with us atheists for talking about it, stop and think sometime just how much god stuff we see all the time, how much we hear all the time, before you tell us how annoying it is.
You really have no idea.