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That's right!!
Guess who's tweet got published QandA last night!!!
Such a shame that Joe fucking Hildebrand's face was on screen at the time though. Here he was making some stupid point that to be an atheist is to have an incredibly lazy view point of the world, as opposed to being agnostic which apparently isn't as lazy. He argued that he doesn't "get" what atheists are trying to prove to the world (because apparently the only reason anyone believes anything is to prove something to others).
His point was that "billions and billions and billions" of people can't be wrong, and that because the need to believe in something is apparently inherent in humans that in itself creates God.
That actually makes zero sense. God wasn't created because people necessarily need to believe in something. Religion has mostly been used as a means of teaching, of explaining things that people didn't have the capacity at that point to understand, and as a means of justifying political action.
If you have faith in something and you use that as an emotional crutch, then power to you. If you can't believe that God doesn't exist because the fact that we are mere specks in this massive universe of ours scares you, then that's pretty pathetic.
I think that the fact that I am such a tiny, insignificant speck of carbon, no more important than you or another man or woman walking down the street, yet still I have the capacity to impact the world and change people's opinions and love and hate and make a difference in someone else's life is pretty magical. The things that Science has discovered about our planet alone should be enough to hold our attentions without the need to cheapen it with mythical creatures.
Our universe is so amazingly, beautifully and magnificently complex and to me that is a greater miracle and mystery than any story or god man could ever make up.
/rant.
On another, more depressing, less philosophical note: today I lost my job.
I wonder if I can add "Published tweet on QandA" to my resume?
