Zach Tate
Ms. Beumer
College Bound English
26 November 2007
Atheism has been heavily criticized over the centuries. Anti-theism is the lack of belief in any type of supernatural being. Atheism is not Satanism, Paganism, nor is Atheism belief in what the Catholic Church has deemed Heathen Gods. Atheism is not a lack of morals nor is it an excuse to break the law. Most Atheists are normal family oriented people. Regardless of a Minnesota State University survey that said out of all the minority cultures Atheists were viewed as the least American, Atheists are American people who love, live, bleed and die, with the rest of the population.
Atheism is not Satanism, Paganism, or belief in Heathen Gods. Atheism is the belief in none of those things. Atheism is the lack of belief. Atheism is not an apathetic approach to religion it is a firm belief that there is no God in any shape, form, or fashion. Pagans are not atheist they are polytheists, Satanists are not atheist they are monotheists. Jesus Christ the savior of the Christian theologists was, at one time, considered an atheist, along with Gandhi, and Buddha. So by claiming to be an Atheist one does not accept another religion one is an anti-theist.
Some individuals in their argument against atheism have claimed that by being an atheist one is more likely to go about and commit murder, rape, or bank robberies, etc. The reason and atheist is supposedly more likely to commit these crimes is because they have no higher supernatural power to answer to. This is wrong. When one accepts atheism as there belief they denounce religious laws and accept the laws of the government. Which if one went solely by the laws of the bible, slavery would be acceptable, as would killing someone ...