Being Atheist
06/13/2011 02:12 p.m.
A friend asked me, ‘how can you not feel the God?’.

Good question!

Why cannot I?

Why am I an atheist?

O.K. I’ll begin with the most basic question.

Why do we have a god? It is the force that listens to us whenever, wherever we need it. This force is our life-guard.

Just like the Star Wars’ “May the force be with you!”.

We can call upon the force when we want, either a help, or to do stuff, we are told, that pleases the force.

Yes! What we are told. We are taught religion from the time we are born. It is later that we figure it out and begin to feel it ourselves.

I suppose most of us blindly follow it as we are taught and ‘fortunately’ establish the link with the force, which we believe helps us out.

Unfortunately, this did not work out for me. Why unfortunate of me? Because then I had to find out what it is to me, and it came out to be nothing. It was fun. I found out that God is a hope, false hope I may call it. Some of you must be thinking that it is too dramatizing, ‘God is a hope’. But I could not find out another way of putting this. False hope, yes it is, as I can do without it.

It is a belief inside religious minds that everything what happens is done by God. But then I am here, ready to take the responsibility of my actions and bear their consequences. So why should I be thanking or blaming someone for what happens to me.

Recently, I came across another perspective of life. It was not some awakening or something, just a different view. The person says that everything that happens is random, there are no patterns. Nothing happens because it has to. I’ll come to the significance of this thought later.

Why does a person call for God? It’s when he is caught up somewhere, in a hope of help. Other times, the fear or gratitude for keeping things right. It is the fear that makes us believe in the force. Or at least it was for me.

I used to think, when no one else can save me ‘ the almighty’ can. But sometimes it did and other times it did not. Though, on those other times things got better later. It struck me that it was just a coincidence.

And I came to a conclusion that everything is random, and sooner or later things get better and complicate again, when they have to.

So if things are that random why doesn’t things complicate more often, or why are we happy? Let’s see. Are we? Even if we are it is because we want to, and so does everyone. You must be thinking, what does that mean? I’ll explain.

Take this analogy. In a city, there are roads, there are vehicles and of course there are people. People drive randomly, everyone has a different destination. Everyone has different paths, different roads to drive on. And they drive on the same road sometime or another. That doesn’t mean everyone is smashing into each other. They have certain beliefs of how they are going to drive. And normally that is according to rules. Same as these drivers we have beliefs, some rules set by the society according to which we live. Exceptions are always there, though. Haven’t you seen those rash drivers?

Now where am I? I am on my own. And I see that world is not made up by God. So I can do without him.

Although, I came out with this explanation because I wanted to. I wanted things to be fit like this. Same as a person, who believes that God has done something for him.

Atheism would not be same as this to some other atheist. Like, I do respect the religious sentiments of people, unlike most atheists.

I am currently O.K.

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