why i am an atheist.

i do not believe in a god that interferes in this world. i do not believe in a god that answers your prayers. i do not believe in a god that cares about what happens to you.

when people say they believe in god they go around defining god in their own words. they say god is your inner voice, god is some intangible higher power they feel exists, god is the light that helps them in their darkest hour.

i dislike having to define each word as you speak. i understand it must be done every so often and i do. only when it comes to god, i think that even though people go around defining their own particular ideas of god in private, by publicly siding with the believers, they do condone the collective idea of god as an omnipresent, omnipotent, supernatural being - who meddles in their personal affairs, who can cure them, can find misplaced rings, help them pass exams, find jobs or manifest his wrath in other such mundane ways.

and i do not believe in such a god.

therefore i am an atheist.

i refuse to define my idea of god, because that is an oxymoron. it is like saying, oh what you call iso-propane, well i don't have that, i actually have benzene, but that is my iso-propane. so we can all call it iso-propane, but we all are actually talking about different compounds. seriously. does that make any sense to you? it doesn't to me. if we all do not believe in the same thing then we should not call them all by the same name.

you may think this is trivial, but some people do. some people do believe in that kind of a god, the one who meddles in human affairs, the one who keeps track of their daily activities and the one they go around killing others for. and if you do not believe in their god then you must say so, you can not be silent and laugh at your own private joke on the world.

I cannot let the richard dawkins of the world deter me. you do not have to be an obnoxious, egotistical maniac with delusions of grandeur to be an atheist. there is room for calm, honest, rational objection. so, there, as my most reasonable self - i am an atheist.