I am thiestagnostic and have experienced trauma
I believe arhiests and agnostic are silenced by the masses. Almost like the emperors new cloths. Or a Multi level marketing company that tells you , you are the reason why their over priced product no one wants, doesn't sell. When in fact it's their leash to keep blaming you for not being productive. Ever notice, those who say "life sucks" are silenced, labeled as nuts, and fed anti depressants? Ever wonder if we are just (for lack of a better term) slaves, to be productive, fall in line and keep the machine running? If you dint you are given a pill. Conclusion? Look at the animal kingdom...they kill , they eat, they torture, they kill for fun. And the only penalty is nature allows them to live or die. No one forces them to conform or medicated them. That is strictly a human behavior. So....does atheism upset the apple cart of order? Is that why athiests are silenced along side those who point to the nakedness king and say it?
@Sandhya60
I read your post with interest.
Because I am an atheist, and I don't feel silenced by the masses. I believe I have found the way to live my life the way I chose, and with the peace and serenity I want. I very much believe that I was taught things by a god believing culture and god believing people that made it much harder to find my peace, but eventually I found that those teachings didn't actually stop me from leading a happy life, I just needed to identify them, and replace them.
We could likely agree that this isn't fair. We shouldn't need to undo stuff we didn't ask for in the first place. And if you are feeling angry because of that, then that would be understandable. One of the things I had to relearn was that anger is not shameful. It is OK to be angry, its a natural response to injustice. Its what you do with that anger that matters. Only once I accepted and accommodated my anger, did I find peace.
You are not nuts to say life sucks. Because sometimes it does. But it's also the only one we have, and I'm going to get as much from it as possible. What about you?
I have no idea if this is helpful. It quite possibly is not what you want to hear. But I did want to try to give you hope. You don't have to conform, you don't have to be a slave, there is a way to live among the god believers and be yourself. And I want to be there for anyone who wants to try to find it.
