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Atheist
by
Alisha Morgan
"Have you
found Jesus to be your personal savior?" To be
honest, is it any of your business? I've found
that answering honestly causes eyebrows to be raised, for the asker to back away from me, and
perhaps cause my
new nickname to be "atheist." But that doesn't
bother me. I may not have God on my side, but that
doesn't stop me for taking it all in stride. My
question is this: why am I suddenly treated
differently once my
religious affiliation is known? Why am I bombarded
with questions of, "Do you worship the Devil?"
"Aren't you afraid of going to hell?" "Why don't
you believe that He exists?"
My replies are as follows: I believe that the
devil exists just as much as God does. I've been in
hell and if it
does exist, then it can't be worse than the first 14 years of my life. And then there's the major
answer to
The Big Question of why I don't believe. I'm not
going to lead you to believe that I know a lot about the
research done to prove or disprove if He exists. I
don't know much about what has been found in
support of
atheistic beliefs. What I do know is that I don't
feel his Almighty spirit when I flip through my
Bible. I
wasn't raised in an environment of Sunday church
services. I feel that one must feel something
whenever
thinking about God. I don't feel anything.
There
are other reasons, of course, but I don't like to
argue
about it. We each have our own choice as to what we
believe in and there's no point in fighting over
who is
wrong and who is right.
I barely think about God and all that is associated
with Him. I have no problem reciting "...one
nation, under
God..." whenever I pledge my allegiance. I just don't care to think, argue, or judge, those who do
or do not
believe. To each his own.
I just wish others would look past "atheist," so
that my other views could be known.
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