“So, am I an atheist? That depends on how you’re looking to define it. However, I’ve worked very hard all my life, at sometimes great personal cost, to remove myself from labels, and from being labeled. Somehow it gives people the idea that they can talk to you like they know you. So I’m not all that hot on the idea of slapping another one on just now.”

I couldn’t agree more. I tend to be wary on folks who run around wearing their labels on their lapels. Non-Theists can be just as bad as Theists when it comes to this. I haven’t jumped on the Richard Dawkins band wagon for this very reason. I find it somewhat ironic that non-believers, who wish the Evangelicals would just keep their religion to themselves, are now using some of the same tactics they claim to dislike so much! Personally, other that my blog, I really don’t go around waiting to jump on another possible convert to unbelief. I really just try to live my life responsibly and morally. If a Christian tried to convert me, or re-convert me, since I was once one of them, I simply tell them, as politely as possible: “I do not know if there is a God or not, and neither do you!”

And I find far more authenticity in Forrest Gump than the story of Moses, for example!

Great post

Which to me is saying “You doubt God because you assume if he exists he would bother to a make a kind of sense.”

Well…yeah.