nova's rants: #3 : the dominating religion

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by gerlemon

by gerlemon

the dominating religion

Hello, all. Here’s something else that bothers me. When people assume that everybody is Christian.

Sure, the vast majority of America is Christian, but, hey, what about everyone else? I’m an atheist, and I’ve told a few friends. They all said the very same exact words after I mentioned it:

“You’re an atheist?”

WOW. WOAH. DUDE. WHAT IS GOING ON?!

PULL THE FIRE ALARM! WE GOT AN ATHIEST IN HERE. WOWIE.

No, just kidding. They actually accepted it pretty well. But still, seeing all of those annoying phone cases with the cross signs on them or the earrings or the necklaces just pisses me off a little. Why can’t we have necklaces with a big, fat Gandhi on them, huh?

I actually have two friends that are Buddhist. Or maybe one of them’s Hindu, but it just makes me sad that the vast minority of us are looked down upon so much.

For example (and I may be over analyzing this a bit) I was paired up with some random dude for journalism and we had to learn about each other and present them to the class. (which, by the way, did NOT go well)

Now, I learned that the dude was Catholic already. We kind of ran out of questions, so he asked me, “So what’s something interesting that most people don’t know about you?”

“Hm…probably that I’m an atheist.” I said. I don’t really give a fuck who finds out. My family never went to church, but they didn’t influence me to becoming atheist. My sister’s a sort-of Christian and I think my mom believes in some Buddhist aspects while my dad is just agnostic. I realized I was atheist around the beginning of the year, and I am very comfortable with it.

Anyway, continuing on:

Pause.

Kid: “Oh…Okay.”

Pause.

Kid: “So…why do you have those beliefs?”

Me: “Oh…um…I don’t know. I just..do.” (I didn’t want to have to explain all of these sciency things cause I’m really not good at science)

So, the day of the presentation comes and we get up there. He’s presenting first, and he basically mentions everything but the fact that I’m an atheist (and that I like rock music, that country loving bastard).

So basically, this kid continues on for five minutes, talking about aLL OF THESE NERDY THINGS LIKE HOW I PLAY CHESS WITH MY DAD, MY CHINCHILLAS, AND ALL OF THESE OTHER SHITTY, UNIMPORTANT PIECES OF MY LIFE BUT HE FAILS TO TELL EVERYONE SOMETHING AS IMPORTANT AS MY FAITH (or, not faith)

Sorry, I got angry. It’s just…he wrote it down. I saw him. Yeah. It was embarrassing.

I was completely fine with mentioning his religious status. I did, too. I didn’t pause to mention all of the shit he was saying about me.

Short rant…okay.

Make good choices c: