Free at last
I just had a very freeing thought: I don't have to build my whole personality around unbelief, the way I did with belief. It's still true that God is a lie, and a harmful one, and one that harmed me. But: I don't have to spend time and energy thinking about how wrong religion is, the way I used to spend time and energy thinking about how right religion was. I don't have to DO anything about unbelief, the way I had to do something about belief. I don't have to listen to podcasts about atheism with the same frequency and intensity that I had listening to sermons. Untrue beliefs need regular reinforcement, but an ABSENCE of untrue belief doesn't. And I don't have to blog every few days about what those Christian assholes are fucking up this week. They still ARE fucking things up, and that DOES cause harm to all of us, but I don't have to spend all my time brooding on that. I don't have to spend all my time brooding about religion anymore, the way I di...