And fucking proud of it. Religion made me so. At least American religion did, especially GQP version.
Jesus turned me woke. Like him. Unacceptable to White Jesus, according to Megan Kelly the quintessential Christian of American faith.
I follow the darker version of Jesus.

I came out as an atheist long before really anyone I knew did. Some would say they were agnostic and that I was too.... which was interesting to be told what I was by others. So many people pushed back. It was tiresome.

It's nice to know that he (and his father) was also one.

And they both were Humanists.

Important to note, thank you.

I believe we are one with Nature, that we are just as much a part of the natural world as waves are to the ocean.

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So agnostic.* However, over the past 40 years or so, I've come to realize that; if a God exists, he surely doesn't give a fuck about us.

* On edit: I want to thank 8 years of Jesuit education in helping me reach this viewpoint.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. We all eventually cycle back into the food web. For me, that's vastly more comforting than some celestial penthouse. And why would we deserve that? We're but a nanosecond in deep time if even that.

"What kind of Jew are you? The atheist kind"... from the Kominsky Method, and the late, great Alan Arkin

I'm sure Rob laughed at that, like all of us atheist Jews.. Being Jewish is far more than faith or belief. we're a tribe.

His character, Mike Stivic, and Gloria indicated in conversation with Archie and Edith that they did not believe in the existence of God.

Most of the decent, honest and rational people I've met in my 7 decades are Atheists.

Almost all of the worst people I've met were deeply religious.

It's been an easy call.

I don't believe there is a Santa Claus, an Easter Bunny, ghosts, gods, angels or leprechauns.

We humans made all those groovy things up.them up to amuse ourselves..

to first offer any kind of evidence to even think it true, they have not done that at all so then there is no evidence that it can be true. I'm not going to address a claim that has no evidence and try to disprove this claim that has no evidence. What could I disprove? That they have no evidence?

But every person gets to decide their own path. And no one is more than another.

He was an amazing human being.

great minds and all that.

Yeah, so what.

And I'm not agnostic, nor an athiest.

He and his wife were great people.

No place in his mind for idiotic fairy tales. I relate.

and have been since we were late teens. Haven't changed our minds yet. We're in our later 70's now.

... that, to some degree at least, many of the most horrific crimes in human history were perpetrated by the über-religious against those who did not share their unswerving obeisance to an imaginary deity on high that knows all and sees all.
Those that harbor such apocalyptic beliefs still walk among us, and are certain that their Sky Daddy not only forgives homicidal acts committed in His name, but encourages them, at least in their fevered minds. History records far too many instances of this for it to be dismissed out of hand. The Spanish Inquisition comes to mind, and the Crusades were pretty uncomfortable for those facing the business end of a "Christian's" lance. More recently, there was Jim Jones, and David Koresh. And today's Christian Nationalists are an unforgiving lot who have preached death and destruction upon those who don't bend the knee to their dictates. The list is long and soaked with the blood of innocents.
H.L.Mencken is reputed to have summed up the point pretty concisely with: "Religion is the greatest fomenter of hatred and intolerance in the history of humanity."
So there's that.

Have a much truer moral compass than any tRump humping self proclaimed Christian.

I have been one since 10 and my whole family are Atheists as well as most of my friends over the years.

I realized that people raised in the Catholic Church were more likely to become atheists.

Seriously, why might this be an issue in the world?

God, presumably, believed in God and wound up killing his only begotten Son.