Monday, April 19, 2010

Atheists!!!

Contrary to popular belief, not all Nigerians are judgmental and intolerant. And I’m not talking to any foreigners here either I’m talking to my very own Nigerians who obviously take themselves too seriously. I’m in a bad mood today because some people insist on having certain conversations while knowing full well that they lack any capacity for objectivity. I hope you are all reading this.
I'm not going to go into a gigantic religious discussion because, to be frank, I don't give a shit what you believe and I'm pretty sure you give less of a shit what I believe. I'm making this point to some atheists [towards whom I was sympathetic] that I have made to some fundamentalists in the past... I don't give a shit what you believe.

You don't believe in God. Hey, good for you! Don't come and make your point when someone is telling us about the death of their mother or the christening of their child or even how they’re praying to pass an exam or get a job! An unsolicited opinion is never welcome and just because you think you've got the universe figured out, doesn't give you an excuse to act like an indignant idiot. If you don't let the fundamentalist, religious nuts do it, what gives you the right to?

This is where you usually give me the "everyone hates us" and “we’re misunderstood” shtick. I’m not saying it's easy to be an atheist, but you chose to be one.
Let me point out here that I have nothing against atheists. As matter of fact I have a few good friends who are atheist. However, you cannot horn in on conversations, expel your point of view, and then mock everyone who doesn't agree with you. Holding your heads high while sitting in some bubble of pseudo-superiority. If you were to encounter this in a spiritual individual, you would call him/her a mindless lemming. What does that make you?

Again I say I know lots of atheists and I love them, but many of you are over-opinionated morons and you're not doing your own movement any favors.
Besides, no one knows the nature of the universe and, spiritual or not, we're all equally stupid. Besides, if you think about it, your lack of belief in a Supreme Being and faith in nothing but the universe, its ways, order, chaos or whatever is in itself a sort of belief system, no?
See, you guys aren’t so cool after all. This of course does not give any hyper-religious nut from any quarter the right to bother me with “thank you” messages and such, because honestly, you guys annoy me just as much. But I think I've done enough complaining.

1 comment:

  1. to be honest i've noticed that about atheists as well. they aspire for an even higher heights of obnoxious than those intense born again christians.

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