I’ve been a flaky pagan.

I have two new part time jobs, school, and a general lack of direction this month. The only thing I’ve been doing faithfully is studying and practicing cartomancy. But I feel inspired, thanks to this article about atheism, which is apparently a pretentious and cowardly idea. So I best get out of it now, right?

The sweeping generalizations and bad arguments were enough to stir my philosophical ire, and I won’t get into all of them here. What really bugged me are the parts that he gets correct. The “militant atheist” crowd does tend to make generalizations and avoids specific cases unless they are in their favour.  There is no central atheistic movement or set of beliefs to which the religious can compare themselves, and many of us are genuinely ignorant of the religions which we deny.

But that is why I started the Year of Faith, to become more enlightened about religion.  Not so that I can argue against religion, but so that we can create a dialog between those who believe and those who do not. So that we can start talking to each other and stop the screaming, stupid insults.

This is a chance for me to prove that not all atheists are ignorant cowards.