​The Brilliant Faith Of Progressive Atheists

As for the question of any "god" existing, it's like arguing whether the Eternal King of the Leprechauns exists. 

Nobody is ever going to prove or disprove it. 

But honestly, I never try to. Nor do most atheists. 

Instead, we just point out how counterfactual, fallacious, and unethical the claims and arguments are.

Few of us care about people believing in fantastic things.

For most of us, our attitude is:

"Worship dryer lint, for all we care. 

Notice how we never really tangle with Wiccans, Buddhists, or Native Indigenous spiritual persons about their beliefs. 

That's because those people are not troubling us with it.
In fact, they hardly ever harm or intrude into other people's lives as a consequence of their spiritual beliefs. 

Whenever someone's weird relationship to dryer lint threatens to (or actively does) greatly intrude on non-consenting people's lives, ... now we have a problem that can't be ignored."

As Will Smith's character in Men In Black once said, ... 

As Captain Picard also points out:

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I understand that anger sometimes boils.

I understand how unpleasant that can be.

I understand how the optics aren't great either. 

But I also understand when it's warranted.

And unlike those we stand against, we (most of us, at least) fight with a brighter spirit.

We aren't trying to conquer or destroy.

In fact, we're not even fighting for "atheism". 

Nor are we fighting against faith itself.
In fact, if you understand my meaning, we fight for faith against the faithless. 

We are trying to protect the innocent, free the shackled, and elevate all of humanity into a cooperative equality, instead of the political and religious Conservatives' ideology of competitive inequality.

It's a higher way of being. 

It's what Steve Winwood called "A Higher Love". 

It's what John Lennon asked us all to imagine. 

Unlike generations prior, vanguards of reason and ethics (both progressive atheists and progressive Theists) have de-clawed the monster in "The West," making it safe enough for others to rise up in collective defiance. 

We don't stand alone.

We stand side by side, with progressive religious voices, in what I call "The Great Awakening".