Confessions of an Atheist—What Does it Take to be a Non-Believer?

We haven’t got a home, but a hut made of impaired thoughts that continue to enslave us each day. As I try to write, my mind cannot stop thinking—of all that the society has become today. And my heart has been left under the dense shade, acting like it is freed but it’s not.

To be a non-believer in this overly sadistic soil, one has to learn to dance under the storm and still be at ease with the complexities of the arena. Why is it that one is compelled into believing that an intelligent being exists—one who watches over us at the set of each dawn.

I too, as time got adapted to my imaginations—part of me knew that I had to stand up for what I thought was right for me. And to follow the path of atheism, very few have been able to walk the talk. It is as if we are inclined to conform right from the second we are born.

But why do millions rely on something that is only as amazing as one of Shakespeare’s plays. The answer lies in the upbringing of a child—one who is fed with fairy tales, if not followed—he shall be exiled or be thrown into the fires of ‘hell’. I don’t know, but many have written before me, and persecuted for standing up against the tyranny.

Things happen around us, and yet we fail to understand that there is rationality and logic behind everything. Some see white light, or even a flying ‘spirit’—and spontaneously utter that it is an act of the intelligent being. But have we ever stepped back and thought of things from a scientific perspective. There is no such thing as magic, or what is a ‘GOD’ when everything can be defined.

I’m a very strong critique, and know that there shan’t be a designer who hides himself every single day. Or see the poor starve and fill the already torn pockets of the elite with silver coins. There has been so much chaos in the name of religion that if one were to entirely eliminate the concept—the world would be a far better place for everyone to breathe in.

Everyone needs something to lean on—and that is the entirety of things, the definition of religion. To give us hope that will never be true. But truth be told, there isn’t a thing out of nothing—but logic that outstands. The idea of praying—and let’s look at sixty people applying for a job interview. Only 30 will be selected and the priest asks for all of them to pray and that ‘GOD’ would do wonders for him or her.

But when the results pour—why is it that your ‘GOD’ will only favor the 30 out of the 60. Perhaps he doesn’t love the rest or is just as naïve as our reliance on him. It’s difficult to stand out is this soil, just because one is an atheist, but one’s mind is beyond comprehension, and that is what defines one from the rest.

Let me write a little, a soak blood unto the thin cotton. No, it’s not ‘God’ directing me, but the neuro-chemistry that has me walking. Everything is as simple as paper, but look at the heads of each faith—capitalizing on such imprudent concepts. If one non-conforms, he is thrown outside the parameters of this society.

-Yogesh Chandra