We’re writing a book about living without religion, and we’re looking for answers – long or short, without judging or making assumptions. Whether you are an atheist or person of faith, we would like to know a bit about you. Answers may be printed in the book, and in submitting answers to us you give us the right to reprint them verbatim or with minor edits for clarity. If you don’t want your name used, please tell us, although we are not planning on using anything more than first name, last initial, and country.
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If you have no religious beliefs – if you are an atheist or agnostic – we would like to know how you handle life in any or all of the following aspects. Please do not feel confined to the categories, and feel free to pick only one, many, or all. This is not a questionnaire - we're looking for anecdotes, personal stories - things that happened to you. Or, if you prefer, you can share your philosophical outlook on any of these topics.
We’re after the good and the bad.
Love
- Dating.
- Relationships.
- Marriage.
Illness
- Coping.
- Overcoming.
Death
- Coping with one’s impending death.
- Coping with the deaths of friend and family.
- Funerals.
Change
- Graduation.
- Friendship.
- Natural disaster and other tragedies.
Conflict
- Family/friends/co-workers
- Politics
- Crime
Holidays
- Celebration
- Not celebrating while friends/family/community celebrates.
Do you have issues with being called an atheist?
- Yes – Reason?
- No
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Send us your answer at goodbyegod@yahoo.com - and thanks
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How to Let Go of Religion and Feel Good About It.
A book about living without religion...
We, Nick and Frédérik, are writing a book about living life without religion. It's called Goodbye, God: How to Let Go of Religion and Feel Good About It.
That's right. No God, no Jesus, no Mohammed - no deities or religious figures. No religion. Period. And that's final. But we don't want to live up to the stereotype of the angry atheist. In fact, we want to show that we godless types can be downright warm and fuzzy - and smiley - when we want to be.
This is where you come in. We have a few questions. If you're an atheist, we want to hear about how you cope with that roller coaster we call life, the ups and the downs. If you're a person of faith but just not too keen on regular church attendance or all the formal trappings of your religion - we want to hear from you too.
Question for Atheists
Question for Persons of Faith
You can post your answer or drop us a line at goodbyegod@yahoo.com Thanks!
That's right. No God, no Jesus, no Mohammed - no deities or religious figures. No religion. Period. And that's final. But we don't want to live up to the stereotype of the angry atheist. In fact, we want to show that we godless types can be downright warm and fuzzy - and smiley - when we want to be.
This is where you come in. We have a few questions. If you're an atheist, we want to hear about how you cope with that roller coaster we call life, the ups and the downs. If you're a person of faith but just not too keen on regular church attendance or all the formal trappings of your religion - we want to hear from you too.
Question for Atheists
Question for Persons of Faith
You can post your answer or drop us a line at goodbyegod@yahoo.com Thanks!
7 comments:
Well, when it comes to being in a serious relationship that is called off out of nowhere, I don't believe it matters what religion you are of. It still strikes you hard and deep in places you didn't even know you had.
Far as my experience is concerned, I have been an atheist for as long as I can remember. Two months ago, my girlfriend of almost 6 years went into the hospital. While in, she told me that we needed to take a break. And she made it clearer once she was out of the hospital that we were over. Emotions and pain came from places I didn't even know existed inside my body. I'm getting over it, slowly, but it still makes me emotional.
I am now a freshman at a very liberal college, but I attended a Lutheran High School for 4 years. It was hellish. Not only was I forced to learn something I didn't believe in, I was constantly called stupid or what not for no apparent reason, having my beliefs questioned. It sucked, and I cannot see myself ever dating a religious person. So what I'm getting to is that you should write about private religious schools, it's really interesting to see the type of kids that come out of them, because they're not what you'd expect.
Although I would not say that I believe in God, I do not regard myself as an atheist either, since this is simply the reverse side of the same meaningless coin.
lots of very big topics here. I'd just like to say a little something about death. To me, an atheist (agnostic for arguments sake), i see life as extremely lucky. I appreciate the chain of events that had to happen for me to be here right now typing this. I appreciate life profoundly but at the same time I understand that for it to have value then our time existing MUST be finite. For it is only with death that we have value in life. I appreciate death for what is it. I see it as if anything more natural than life. We are the oddity.
Low self-confidence?
Thanks for your comments, everyone. I guess the moral of the story is: atheists are people too! :)
Raul, I went to as semi-private religious school (Catholic, of course). But I guess not having hardcore religious parents made it easy to eventually come out of it. I thank Bertrand Russell.
Flirt, I think you've described exactly why atheism doesn't have to be as meaningless as religious folk would have us believe.
I don't mind being called an atheist but I would say there are definite generalisations about atheists being unethical.
I never thought about religion until my grandfather died last year, at which point I began to read the bible (he was very religious) which caused some conflict among my boyfriend (who is an atheist) and I. After that I was introduced to books on evolution and came to the conclusion that atheism is the only logical decision.
Being an atheist has caused conflict among my family who think I am a radical. My friends have also viewed my belief as a radical decision and those of my friends who are pious have tried to change my views by inviting me to religious events, albeit furtively.
Hi Nicola - thanks for your comment.
I think it is possible for atheists and religious folk to get along, but sometimes I wonder.
The "unethical atheist" is certainly one of the most annoying and persistent stereotypes. How have you handled your religious friends? Did you ever have a long heart-to-heart with them?
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