I am not a regular, or even a sometime watcher of the Daily Show or The Colbert Report, but I was made aware of this via a Facebook friend. It is a quote by Stephen Colbert while appearing on the Daily Show. "Atheism: The religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority."
I don't know why it struck me so resoundlingly. I don't think about Atheism. It is not something I waste brainpower on. I know a number of atheists and they are perfectly fine people and it is not something we discuss. In my understanding, I would think that atheists would prefer that. If they do not acknowledge a "supreme being" then that is what I call their "religion" and I am not about to denigrate or question their belief system. I have mine, they have theirs, and we can agree to disagree.
But something about this statement just made me smile. I think it is because recently, those clerics of atheism have been much more vocal in their fight to change the "freedom of religion" to that of "freedom FROM religion" and that I cannot stomach. After all, isn't a lack of a faith in a supreme being a religion of sorts in itself, much like the quote alludes to? And many of those that are making the rounds on the media shows, do seem to have a smug sense of superiority about them. (I will admit, there are a number of "believers" (Christian, Jewish, Muslim or otherwise) out there who are just as smug...)
Well there I go... thinking too much on this subject. Any thoughts out there on this?
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