Hello I'm David Silverman, President of
American Atheists,
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sit back and enjoy the first-ever
broadcast
on Atheist TV. We begin
with a few words from my predecessor.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the late founder of American Atheists,
Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
I'm an atheist. I don't have any such beliefs.
there is no God. This is childish
I'm not involved in those emotional he
did ideas
I'm involved in
specific problems in our society
you know it's an exciting electoral
experience
and it's very exciting for facts that
are never too old
with
this is what I think the right here
all game yes pain
d go
atheists do not ask God for help
in order to answer questions as far as
we're concerned this is nonsense
got isn't going to help anyone answer
any question any time anywhere
simply because there is no God your
petitioners are atheists
and they define their position as
follows: an atheist loves his fellow man
instead other gone
an APS things that happen is something
for which we should work now
here on earth for all men together to
enjoy
an APS knows that he can get no help
through prayer but that he must find in
himself the inner conviction and
strengths
to meet life to grapple with it to
subdue it
to enjoy it an ABS know that a No
only in a knowledge of himself in a
knowledge of his fellow man
can he find the understanding that will
help to a life
a personal and societal get fulfillment
an atheist then seeks to know himself
and his fellow rather than to know a
gone
an atheist knows that a hospital should
be built
instead of a church an atheist knows
that a deed
must be done instead of a prayer said
and atheist rise for involvement
in life and not escape into death he
wants disease Concord poverty banish
more eliminated he once man to
understand and love maine
he wants and ethical way of life he
knows that he cannot rely on God
cannot channel action into prayer
and that there is no hope for any
troubles
solutions in the hereafter he knows that
we are our brother's keeper
he knows it where the keeper of our own
lives that we are responsible people
and that the job is here and the time is
now
well you need to know also
what atheists are not we are not a
realist
not secularist not humanists not
agnostics
after all agnostics or simply gutless
atheists
neither are atheist humanitarian we do
not hide behind a name because
that name is thought to handle
respectability that plane barebone
term is the proudest and the most
beautiful love the mall
being an atheist also means at least
this
we do not accept that there is a dog or
gods
personal or in major manifesting
himself herself itself for themselves in
any way
we do not accept the idea of heaven hell
perdition purgatory or any
other up the stage is reached by
escalator going either up or down
we do not accept that there is any life
after death we do not accept
Mary calls we do not accept the idea
angel spokes goblins gremlins leprechaun
elves or soul
we simply do not accept that anyone at
any time
was ever a prophet of God who did not
exist
are which did not exist we do not accept
any so-called holy books as guidance to
life
and that includes the Bible the tore out
the be to the core and the you Panish at
the Art Walk be the arrest they invent
them constantly
we don't care whether that book was
written
by any one in history in any
age in history whether that was written
by Moses
Mary Baker Eddy Paul Joseph Smith
Mohammed what comma Buddha for the
fickle finger of fate
we do not accept that there is now
or has ever been a holy person
and that includes everyone from Mother
Teresa
to Moses to Jesus Christ we call him JC
mohammed his daughter for thima the
angel Moroni
the pope any pope all other popes
any Oracle self-appointed or appointed
by other persons or elected by strange
men in long red dresses
we do not accept that there is any
efficacy in prayer
and we don't care whether there said by
your legislator
george bush yourself myself a priest a
rabbi and Minister
ageru are even your mama a beer see all
of this
first as being totally subjective
and going on only in your little heads
nowhere else and secondly we see it
basically
as simply being silly we don't hate you
we think you're quite hard but these are
all very ancient
outmoded fables and we no longer need to
cling to them in our modern world
the most difficult thing in the world to
do is to live in it
just to get along with other people
to earn a living to meet our basic needs
and we do not need encumbered
by all these ideas which bring US cents
%uh guilt a sense at the inadequacy
up importance we need a decent modern
sophisticated workable set up standards
by which we can get along with ourselves
and others and here we are in the 80 S
and we got all the answers
know God ever gave any man anything
we are on our own we make it in this
world ourselves or we fail
ourselves we solve our problems we find
our happiness
we form our government's based on power
derived from the people not from God
a the author materialists also we think
that what you see is what you got
mother nature primarily there are no
supernatural forces
nor can they be the goal in life is to
live
whereas your religion tell you but the
go live your life is to die
so that you can spend eternal life with
gone the Absa hey man you blow it here
and that's it you only go around once
the beer commercial is correct
there has been a very definite at
determined
government effort at to turn us into a
Christian nation
with a civil religion and in return
religion got money power special favors
the
we r coming out and speaking
frankly and not being intimidated
into thinking that religion deserves a
kind a free pass
sometimes things need to be said and
bites need to be bought even
if they are on popular
jesse is the acceptor concert here
rational thinking
so the two never monitor anything that's
going on in the social order
it's in our best interest to believe as
many true things as you false things as
possible
it would never tell anybody you can't
believe something but if you tell me to
believe it
gonna have to substantiate on
know what people think that whenever you
talk about eight years in the fears that
a negative thing but I view it as very
hot
is one of the best decisions I've ever
made in my life and I'm
complete me advocate people coming out
no kami out and being out can be so much
fun its sole liberating
they have a moral problem ethical code
that doesn't arrive from religious holy
books
if and we are not who we are Foley
those who know us don't really know us
those who love us can't love us falling
atheism
is living free we are free
from the ISM and that's all that an
atheist is
whatever the monkey is that you have in
your back we don't have it on her back
and hey you wanna try this
the closet 8 p.m. you know are not
alone and you deserve a quality
on the motion even of or do we go from
became only
I keep if hamas says he and look at me
now
we have the number we have the momentum
take part
an hour right just fine more reasonable
future
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