I am an Atheist, however this does not in any way make me a bad person so please don't judge me until you get to know me as I hate when people are closed minded like that.  Everyone gets pissed when I tell them and they usually automatically label me a Satanist/Pagan.  I really get pissed when they get that confused or can't deal with it.  People need their religion as guidance to keep their sanity, that's one theory I have anyhow. I am primarily a scientist and as most I don't believe what I can not see, touch, smell, taste, or here (either on my own or through the use of scientific equipment). What follows are my thoughts on the subject.

To be honest I'm more agnostic than atheist simply because absence of proof is not proof of absence.  However until this proof is shown (actual proof, not the crap they come up with now) I'm sticking to atheist. Atheism is described as

    1.  a.  Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.  b. The doctrine that there is no God or gods.

    2.  Godlessness; Immorality.

I agree with it except for the 2.  Immorality part.  How the hell is it immoral not to believe in God?  I know many who don't believe and are better (morally speaking) than most Christians. I previously described in my page on Heaven that "People create heaven out of fear of no afterlife and just having our consciousness slip away after we die, or there being only Hell that awaits us.  Personally I'd rather go to Hell than have my thoughts ripped from me and disappearing into nothingness".  Does my disbelief in God and the acceptance of that possibility make me brave and fearless?  Absolutely not, quite the opposite, it scares the shit out of me.  Does it make me a bad person?  No and if you believe so you're an ignorant moron.

God is nothing more than a figurehead, the guy with the "master plan" for all of us.  There is no plan, you make your own destiny, whatever happens happens.   If it makes your life better so be it, if your life becomes a living hell, that sucks too but what will be will be and it usually can be changed if you try (I recommend that over "living hell").  You could live 100 years, or you could die by getting hit by a bus tomorrow, or you could have a heart attack now and die reading this (wouldn't that just suck).  People believe in God because they fear that if there is nothing to work toward why work at all.  God is the carrot in front of the treadmill that is life.  Heaven is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, however as in real life the rainbow exists but the gold is not there.  I'll admit that when I was young I looked for the gold, and I believed in god.  However I also believed in the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, and the Boogie Man at one point too.  Funny to think that I was so naive to think that Santa Clause existed after my Mom told me that the Tooth Fairy was made up.

I believe in 3 types of Atheism.

    #1.  Scientific Atheism:

This is the only true type of Atheism, the big bang theory, logic, and all the things that make the universe tick is what is behind it.  If there is no proof then it does not exist. Absence of proof might be proof of absence but that's how we got here in the first place. Therefore it is way more likely that god(s) do not exist.

    #2.  Agnostic Atheism:

A mix of the two plus all other religions, they have no belief and no disbelief in God.  They (like most of us) don't know what the hell to believe, so they don't.   They search though, looking for belief/spirituality.  "If only God would give me some clear sign!  Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen.  I have always wished for a sign, I have to agree with him, that would be the kind of sign I would want (but how would I know he was the one who did it)? Science can't prove god exists but it can't prove he does not exist either. True atheists don't know what they're talking about, it just happens to be the most likely possibility. However this doesn't mean that the religious aren't full of shit either.

    #3.  Religious Atheism (there is an oxy moron for you):

This is the belief in God but not really believing in his power.  As in what has he done for us lately?  Why is there so much suffering in the world while he sits on his ass?  "He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him." - George Orwell.  I like that definition better.

Yet another good quote that separates me from the mindless Christians.   "I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure.  That is all that agnosticism means." - Clarence Darrow  From a speech on July 13th 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, defending John T. Scopes on trial for teaching Darwinism.  This, in the USA, simply putting him on trial goes against the first amendment right of freedom of religion.  However I have no place to talk here since I don't know the whole story.   Note to self, research this.

Some other good quotes include

"The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone.   Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it, because it is a fact." - G. K. Chesterton

"The religious world is but the reflex of the real world." - Karl Marx

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.  It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

“My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.” - Albert Einstein

"It is an insult to God to believe in God.   For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument, their intellect, which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence.  It is tempting to conclude that he exists, It is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education.  For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously."  Galen Strawson

"A child in the sixth grade in a Sunday School in New York City, with the encouragement of her teacher, wrote to Albert Einstein in Princeton on 19 January I936 asking him whether scientists pray, and if so what they pray for. Einstein replied as follows on 24 January 1936:

I have tried to respond to your question as simply as I could. Here is my answer.

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the actions of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a supernatural Being.

However, it must be admitted that our actual knowledge of these laws is only imperfect and fragmentary, so that, actually, the belief in the existence of basic all-embracing laws in Nature also rests on a sort of faith. All the same this faith has been largely justified so far by the success of scientific research.

But, on the other hand, every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe. A spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.

It is worth mentioning that this letter was written a decade after the advent of Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy and the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics with its denial of strict determinism."

Well my website does have an evil touch I'll admit, I'd rather have it be bad and evil than have flowers all over it and crap like that (not that there is anything wrong with that, it's just not my style).  I do look evil so my page reflects that (black and gothic). It's a fact that sin and evil are usually more fun (or at least cooler looking).  Think about it, chocolate tastes good and it's bad for you, money is nice to have to buy things but that's greed (me being an only child I was spoiled as a kid so I'm kind of greedy I'll admit), eating too much sweets is gluttony, too much sex is lustful, however all these things are common in day to day life for most people I see out there.  Do you know a saintly person, someone who has done no wrong?  Nowadays they aren't hard to find, they simply don't exist.  I can't think of any can you?  Think hard!  I estimate that 99.9% of us are going to hell if it exists.  Now atheism is a little more appealing.  Sure you could ask for forgiveness but do you really think that will work?  I'd like to go on a stoned, drunken rampage killing as many people as possible stealing everything in site and then go to God and say "I'm sorry, I fucked up, please o please forgive me."   I don't think so, as God would put me on the rocket train to hell very quickly.   You cannot go do that and ask the judge of any country for forgiveness.  You would get fried until your innards were a crispy black.

That's about it, here are a bunch of other good quotes to be used as filler until I edit this further later.

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from." - George Eliot

Here is another example of how God does not exist.  God says in the bible (somewhere I guess) "Worship no other god but me for I am a jealous god." (if anyone can find me the quote I'd be grateful.  I don't feel like reading through a fictional book.)  However isn't jealousy a sin?  I thought it was the last time I checked.

"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than do nothing: at least we exist." - T. S. Eliot

"Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it?  It is not enough to know the evil to shun it?  If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.  This makes us secret and rotten." - D. H. Lawrence

"There is no explanation for evil.  It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe.  To ignore it is childish, to bewall it is senseless." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Only among people who think no evil can evil monstrously flourish." - Logan Pearsall Smith

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to pick the one I never tried before." - Mae West

"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife, a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave.   Also there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held." -  Woody Allen

"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen