Toronto Star: Atheists should make more noise
Atheists should make more noise
Published On Sun Jan 29 2012
By Heather Mallick
Star Columnist
I am an atheist, dont know why.
Id like to tell you that I was one of those intelligent children who at age 11 gave the religion question careful thought and then alerted their parents that they wouldnt be doing the church thing no more. Or that reading about the Holocaust had made me think of the open sky above Treblinka and wonder what kind of god didnt care to notice the crematoria, especially when he could allegedly see a little sparrow fall.
In these cases, the first child is cerebral, the second anguished. I was simply oblivious and continue to be. Religion isnt on my radar. Like the magnets in high school science experiments that repel each other rather than attract, I am programmed to tune out religious talk.
But atheism is an important phenomenon, and it is growing, the philosopher Alain de Botton now planning to build a $1.4 million (Cdn.) temple for atheists in London. There are a great many people like me but you rarely hear from us. Why would you? We dont discuss this when we meet. It would be stupefying. Our lack of interest in religion bores even us. ...............(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/1122905--atheists-should-make-more-noise?bn=1