What Are Some Of The Best Things About Being An Atheist?

[Evan2020]

I’m leaning towards becoming an atheist, so I am curious to hear from people on here who are atheists, what are some of the main things you enjoy about being an atheist?

[1ozzy]

And enjoyed a good lay down

[emmie]

i enjoy a good coffee tea is awful stuff....

[1ozzy]

Coffee beats tea any day ;-)

[Evan2020]

1ozzy did you see my question? I need you to clarify how being atheist would involve living hell

[davebro]

One of the worst things about being an atheist is when you HAVE to attend some sort of ceremony ( a wedding, a funeral) and you are expected to join in with prayers and/or hymns cos other people are doing so (even tho' you know 1/2 of them probably aren't believers either).

[1ozzy]

I did see your question Evan.
Thank you for the reminder

[Evan2020]

Great no problem 1ozzy I look forward to your answer. :)

[ToraToraTora]

Evan, do not try and make any sense of PP, he talks absolute drivel all the time most of us skip his posts anyway.

[Evan2020]

Ok Thanks for the heads up ToraToraTora

[1ozzy]

Don't pay too much attention to TTT either, he struggles to make sense too:-)

[andy-hughes]

As others have advised, you don't 'become' an atheist, because it is simply the absence of belief.

The best thing about it is the absence of pressure.

Christians live in a world of hand-wringing and worry.

Nothing is ever good enough for their 'loving' God, they are constantly in a state of anxiety worrying if he is pleased with them, if they are doing what he wants, and if they are good enough to enter heaven when they die.

All that for a god who clearly does not deserve all that worship and fear and franly living in varying states of misery.

I have none of that at all, no pressure makes for a happy life.

[Evan2020]

Yes I’m with you 100 percent andy-hughes being a Christian has brought me exactly that kind of anxiety you described and I am excited to be free from that! :)

[douglas9401]

One wonders what the wives of atheists think of such pronouncements as those at 08:47.

[anneasquith]

One of the best things is………….being allowed to bore everyone to death about ‘ not believing in God ‘ .

[davebro]

I don't think atheists express their lack of belief as much as believers try to force their faith on others!

[Peter Pedant]

what's with
" I pray for people who are ill"

foo dat makes no sense at all - - foo ( a usual suspect)
Roman Catholics do it every day - so do Anglicans
another usual suspect: do dey? fooo!

[Peter Pedant]

an advantage is..... being able to lie in bed Sunday and not go to church

TTT for it is he: foo dat makes no sense at all, dat does

I looked outta the window and saw it was a full moon

[Peter Pedant]

o god (!) pun intended - now I see

However, phrases such as "contemplating one's navel" or "navel-gazing" are frequently used, usually in jocular fashion, to refer to self-absorbed pursuits.

what, no one on AB knows what staring at your belly button means?
wow !

ho hum - be educated everyone! it has got a greek name ( of course) ompholskepsis

I HAD thought you proles ( Lozza excluded ) had all missed the rather er obvious quote from Shakespeare ( dead white poet d. `1616) - Hamlet act 1 sc 3

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

I thought it rather obvious myself but ho hum this is a normal day on AB !

[royfromaus]

anneasquith
One of the best things is………….being allowed to bore everyone to death about ‘ not believing in God
____________
Are believers not allowed to bore people to death about 'believing in god' ?

[anneasquith]

Roy. Atheist tend to shout the loudest, at least on AB .