Penn why im an atheist

The Punk Rocker: Greg Graffin. The Scribe: Warren Allen Smith. Interview with Gary Wolf. Topics magazine We have joy in the world before the lord is come. The smiles of children. The glory of giving or receiving a blow job. Sunsets, rock and roll, bebop, Jell-O, stinky cheese, and offensive jokes.

For atheists, everything in the world is enough and every day is holy. Every day is an atheist holiday. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid. Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! At MY school a hundred percent of the children - gay, straight, transgendered, bi, sell She's saying that fourteen percent of the gay students were NOT harassed?

That seems impossible. I'm for nuts. I am nuts. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life. Mates divorce, and even friendship is diagnosed as a disorder - co-dependency. At least most of the time no one cares. I'm not making the argument that if we're doing nothing wrong, then we shouldn't be afraid of the government monitoring us.

He said it just like Harold, the mentally handicapped dishwasher I worked with when I was a young man making minimum wage at Famous Bill's Restaurant in Greenfield, Massachusetts. There's no shame. It's a simple statement of fact. When Richard Feynman didn't know, he often worked harder than anyone else to find out, but while he didn't know, he said, "I don't know.

I like to think I fit in somewhere between my friends Harold and Richard. I don't know. I try to remember to say "I don't know" just the way they both did, as a simple statement of fact. It doesn't always work, but I try. Piers beat me up a bit for being an atheist that's his job and then beat me up a bit for being a libertarian also his job.

He did this by asking me impossible questions, questions that none of us, Harold, Richard, me, or Piers , could ever answer. He started with "How did you get here? I said, "I don't know. He said, "God," an answer that meant Piers didn't know either, but he had a word for it that was supposed to make me feel left out of his enlightened club.

Then he asked me what we could do to help poor people. I said I donated money, food, medical care, and services and he said, "No," he meant, what could society do to solve the problem of poor people.

Again, I was stumped. He said the government had to do it, which I interpreted as another way of saying he didn't know, but he thought that made me look mean What makes me libertarian is what makes me an atheist -- I don't know.

If I don't know, I don't believe. I don't know exactly how we got here, and I don't think anyone else does, either. We have some of the pieces of the puzzle and we'll get more, but I'm not going to use faith to fill in the gaps. I'm not going to believe things that TV hosts state without proof.

I'll wait for real evidence and then I'll believe.