To the Atheist members of vgchartz

[Zappykins]

I would say I'm more of a Deist, than an atheist. In that I do not believe there is any day to day, or moment to moment involvement. No God saying, "Yes, I really want THAT soccer team to win" or "This person should have the award" or, "I think that boy should be molested by this priest."

I am profoundly offended when people for onto me 'everything happens for a reason!' Really? Tell that to my friend's family who was stalked(for over a year), tortured and slowly murdered because he was gay. Or the parents of a child that was accidentally run over by a car, or a group of people slowly dieing in a collapsed mine running out of food and air in complete darkness. Things happen, and to blame a deity as someone who enjoys hurting people or their is some greater good to those in pain sacrifices is just downright evil in my opinion.

But the biggest thing, or freedom, if you will, is not having to justify bad things. There isn't always a silver lining, things happen and you deal with them. Plenty of good things happen too, enjoy and celebrate them when they do.

So for me, it's the freedom to deal with things that happen, and not search for meaning in something that in my opinion, isn't there.