Who is Emma?

Hi! I'm Emma!

This is Charles,

We kind of like each other.

No, these are not our real names; due to the extremely religious and conservative population of our area we don't feel confident using our real names and keeping our careers. Sad, but true; womp womp.

As we've established in the previous post, we are those crazy devil Athiest people you hear all about on the 10:00 news. We like to do crazy sinful things like watch sports, play with our two naughty dogs, listen to good music and attempt to make it up to watch Hannibal on Thursday nights. I know, crazy buisness!

Truth is, we're boring, very boring; in fact we love boring! Our idea of a perfect Friday night is ordering Chinese take out and renting a red box movie that we will inevitable forget to return until the next Friday night. We hope that you will enjoy following us through our boring life adventures on this blog.

In the future we will post more about ourselves, what we do for a living, where we are from and how we became atheists, but for now we just wanted to say a quick hello and get to know our readers a little better.

So tell us...

1. What is your idea of a perfect Friday night?
2. Are you a member of any religious institution, or are you a darn dirty atheist like us?

 

Why Did I Start This Blog?

Why did I start this blog? The simple answer, community. I want desperately to know someone out there feels the same way I do. I want to know that I am not the only one who cringes when I hear statements like, "I'm not a righteous person, I'm the blood of Christ" or "As a Christian I would never xyz." 

I have wanted to create this blog for so long, but fear has held me back. I fear I will come across as judgmental or pompous, yet this is not my intention. I want to present the other side of the story. The side of the story that says, I too have moral values. Yes, I value family, life and charity; but I do not need a God to tell me I should value these things. I do not need the promise of a heaven to know I should do right. I do not believe that when I die I will have to atone for my sins, or be rewarded for the life I have lived on earth. I believe when I die, I will simply be dead; nothing more nothing less. 

I want to tell anyone out there who believes these things, THIS IS OK! You are not a bad person, you are not any less moral, you are not any less than period.  You can be a good person, you can dedicate your life to others, you can choose to do right simply because you know what is right and what is wrong.

I get so frustrated with the belief that we simply can't be a good person if we are not following the word in a fable riddled with lies and contradictions. I wanted to start this blog to fight back against all the times I have heard, "I feel sorry for you if you don't believe in God." I want to show those who do believe, you do not need to feel sorry for me; you simply need to accept that I am not motivated to behave like a decent human being by the promise of heaven.  I am motivated to behave like a decent human being because I feel an internal happiness from helping others.

I am not a perfect person,

I do not have all the answers; 

But I am no longer going to have my character decimated in silence.

I am an atheist, I am a good wife, teacher, sister and daughter; this is my story.