I plan on sharing interesting, unique, or otherwise memorable This I Believe essays. To start, here is Penn Jillete’s essay- he is one half of the magic/comedy group “Penn & Teller.
But all obscenity is less insulting than, “How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.” So, believing there is no God lets me be proven wrong and that’s always fun. It means I’m learning something. […]
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things
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Excellent. Too often the focus of atheism (by those both for and against it) is toward the negative- what does not or cannot exist. When the beauty of this world is all there is, it somehow makes the world much more beautiful.
I agree, and I think that perception is why atheists are more reviled in American culture than almost any other group. More of this type of discussion would go a long way to change that.