"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - - - Mark Twain
For my part, I keep away from little people who belittle atheism. Specially those college educated men and women who tell me that I must never identify myself publicly that I am an atheist. Well, as a high school expelled student, I am not only proud to admit publicly that I am an atheist; I am even more proud to identify myself to anyone that I am
the Father of Atheism in the Philippines.
Many believers like to believe that atheism is a form of neurotic rebellion or a kind of mental illness. The believers cannot get rid of the atheists by committing them into an insane asylum where they can be ignored. To label, however, atheism as a mental illness is not only childish nonsense; it is also a laughable attempt to evade the question of veracity and falsity. IS THEISM TRUE? WHAT REASONS ARE THERE FOR BELIEVING IN A GOD? These are the important questions that the theist must address himself if he has hopes to challenge the reality behind atheism.
The believer who attempts to defeat atheism by degradation, indeed, by subordinating truth to emotionalism accomplishes nothing, aside from revealing his silly contempt for man's ability to think critically!
In the meantime, atheism is a worldwide movement today without frightened followers. Atheists are enlightened leaders of their own destiny in life without the need of a religious dogma, or ecclesiastical pigma, or spiritual hogma. - - - Poch Suzara
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