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Like I’m sure a lot of atheists out there, ever since George Carlin’s death, I’ve been asking myself over and over, “Why do you restrain yourself?” The last version of this site overflowed with sarcasm and frank expositions on religious nonsense, even if they were at times silly and ultimately futile. At the time I thought to myself, “You’re being too hard on theists. They’ll never deconvert if you act disdainful or belligerent towards them. Act nice and they’ll repent of their otherworldly inhumanness.”

Yeah, well, in the spirit of George Carlin’s beautiful rotting corpse, fuck acting nice. I’ve decided that deconversion is not even remotely the point of an atheistic blog or website. Why? Because theists, generally speaking, don’t give a fuck about what we atheists think or feel. They don’t listen to reason. They don’t care about truth. All they care about is their precious Teddy Bear of Hope in the Sky.

So what is the point, pray tell, of shouting my lungs out if it falls on deaf ears? It’s just preaching to the choir, in a manner of speaking. And, truth be told, neither I nor any of you atheist bloggers out there have a single solitary chance in Hell of deconverting these lost nonexistent souls until they are ready and willing themselves to listen to what reason and reality have to offer.

So, I say, screw this serious atheological or philosophical bullshit that I’ve been struggling to write for months now. This isn’t a thesis paper. No one is grading my grammar or spelling. Who cares if I plagiarize from Benny Hinn and command demons to flee in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? This is a goddamn atheistic blog, for Christ’s sake. And my audience, being the only ones who really give a shit about life, are all atheists just like me, looking for a sense of community and a few choice words about the shitty religious world in which they are forced to live until Jesus and Muhammad return and admit to being a homo and a nympho, respectively.

Screw seriousness and screw religion. I’m ready to resume having fun.

(Now watch. I won’t post anything for weeks.)

George Carlin mourned as counterculture hero

“The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things — bad language and whatever — it’s all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition,” Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. “There’s an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. … It’s reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.”

George Carlin was one of my favorite people. I will miss his brilliant candor.

Atheists often complain that theists will not listen to reason and deconvert because emotion gets in the way. So, this complaint goes, there isn’t any hope of deconverting a theist until s/he feels like it.

Well, earlier today I read a few pages from D’Holbach’s The System of Nature. And I began to lose interest after only a few paragraphs. Part of the problem is that D’Holbach took a while to get to his point. He could probably expostulate for hours, deconverting his friends out of sheer exhaustion.

Yet, another part of the problem is that, put bluntly, I have shit to do. Life calls, in other words, constantly. It’s relenting in its request for attention. “You forgot to turn off the light.” “You need to wash clothes.” “Your lawn isn’t going to mow itself.” It’s so annoying!

So, if I put myself in the shoes of your average theist with lots of shit to do, it becomes abundantly clear that I will almost certainly never get around to reading critical commentaries on religion, much less thinking about religion critically, which takes more effort. No, instead, I will most likely spend my entire life struggling in a constant tug-of-war with reality to just get shit done. It’s not emotion. It’s not retardation. It’s just life. Life is the culprit.