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INVISIBLE MUFWICS
I Don’t Have Any Invisible Friends, But I Don’t Mind If You Do
Religious, spiritual, whatever. If it makes you happy, that’s great
When I read someone who says they lost their belief in a god because priests raped children or their church wouldn’t accept their gay child, I think that’s a very silly statement. They are conflating an imaginary friend with the way one particular religion depicts that omnipotent self-contradiction. They should not abandon their core beliefs over that.
If my language offends you, I apologize. I’m an atheist. I don’t have invisible friends. Belief in the supernatural is silly to me. Simple observation of the world around you shows you that there are no gods interfering. That’s what led some people to be Deists: they could see that prayer did nothing, so they posited a Creator who was either dead or uninterested. They waved away the obvious question of self-creation, which is logically impossible, ignored the physics that told them that complex things have simpler parts, and didn’t bother to think that the universe could be eternal. I’m not sure why that belief gave them comfort, but there it is, just the same. You don’t need to take things that far, though.
