I always wonder if a great part of the world turns off on Sunday mornings as everyone files into churches. It is a movement I feel left out of, though it doesn’t generally bother me.

tna and my tophat man are both Roman Catholic, and the little one believes in God, but doesn’t go to Church. I don’t think they’re any better or worse than I am, morally, but I’ve had people ask me how Atheists can have morals. (ftr, ouch.)

My point of view on that is the exact opposite; I would go so far as to say that my morals and ethics are integrated far more into my person than they would be if they were shoved in by my family’s religion and version of the Bible (or Koran and whatnot). They are there because I believe in them very strongly, not because some piece of propaganda told me that I must believe in it to move on to the afterlife.

And that is a point in itself – is there an afterlife? I choose to believe that there is not, because spirits seem ridiculous to me, just another bribe given to children as incentive to behave. I believe that we are who we are due to thought patterns, and brain waves, all which stop functioning the same way that our other organs do.