Meet The Monster
By - Casper Rigsby
A Healthy Dose of Reality
For all the complaining theists do, you would think that atheists have taken
to burning them at the stake. But the reality is that the majority of atheists
are quiet and pacifistic, trying to indulge a "live and let live" position. Most
atheists are not anti-theists like myself, and while they may detest the
actions of the religious world at large, they do not speak. They embrace
pacifism and the apathy associated with it. They would no more stand in
defiance of the religions tearing civilization apart than they would stand in
defiance of a tornado. Such has been the case for well over 2,000 years, and
why shouldn't it be? I mean, in many instances even the act of speaking
could get them imprisoned, or even murdered. But I have to tell you, and
many won't like hearing this, that you're part of the problem, not part of the
solution.
The truth is that our continued apathy and pacifism is a more detrimental
force against our freedom than any religion could perpetrate against us. Our
silence is allowing us to be walked all over by them. Our "live and let live"
approach has failed us miserably, because it isn't a position we share with
the opposition. We are up against people willing to strap bombs to
themselves to murder us and any others who do not follow their chosen
delusion. We are up against people willing to murder their own children
because a holy man says they're witches. And if you don't get this, then we
are doomed to fail in gaining equal ground and true freedom. You may
believe that by simply being an atheist you have escaped religion, but I
assure you that this is not the case. You've escaped nothing as long as they
still stand united and strong against all of us.
Pacifism and Apathy
Many people think of pacifism as just an embrace of nonviolence, and indeed
most pacifists are nonviolent, but it goes deeper than that. You see, pacifism
is truly the embrace of passivity or apathy. It is the idea that it's fine for you
to do your thing and I'll just do mine. To indulge this idea in total means to
allow those who wish to act in ways that are detrimental to you and then
say, "It's cool bro. Just do your thing." Men such as Mahatma Gandhi are
touted as pacifists, when in reality they are activists who used rational
discourse as tools of war against oppression. Gandhi himself once said, "It is
better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the
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