I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a door-to-door atheist.
\nHello ma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122am, have you heard the good news about Jack Shit?
\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a real man, and with your tithe he can do wondrously shitty things.
\nHe can magically transform your wages into a megachurch,
\nwith more glory given to itself than to a God that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably looking down in horror.
\nHe might be wondering what got lost in translation,
\nHis limitless knowledge translated from Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek to English with such precision
\nthat every bible-pounding flag-waving Real American knows it as\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nThe Word\u00e2\u201e\u00a2.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a door-to-door atheist.
\nNo, ma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122am, I am not driven by gods, ghosts, left-wing agendas, right-wing agendas, or flying spaghetti monsters.
\nI am not sponsored by God, Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, prophets, kings, fishers of men, hunters of vampires or the Pfizer corporation.
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just a man, wondering why so many of you have to fear Hell or need paradise to help each other.
\nWondering if you realize just how many religions preceded yours,
\nThat human history has shown that mythology is only religion with no believers left to defend it.<\/p>\n
I am still beholden to an invisible force, I call it air.
\nI can do miracles with it.
\nI can take it deep into my body.
\nI can reverse the flow, in the form of a question.
\nIn the form of a challenge.
\nIn the form of a plea.<\/p>\n
This plea comes courtesy of 13-year-old me, living in rural Kentucky.
\nTerrified of coming out, with brimstone in my left hand, fire in my right.
\nIf you believe what you believe because you chose to, not because you were supposed to,
\nUnderstand that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m doing the same thing.
\nBecause we both made our choices,
\nbut I respected yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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