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I find him to be too political and too satisfied that we are all toasters.

Edit: The link is to the Joe Rogan podcast, if you do or don't want to click it.

So I've got two nice old ladies knocking on my door trying to push god and their church on me. NORMALLY I would be like yeah fuck off, HOWEVER, with the recent rise of pussy hat wearing SJW psychos, all of a sudden I have a new found respect for the Christian / Catholic church and their values. Say what you will about them but most of them seem pretty fucking normal compared to some of the crazy that's out there now.

So I guess my question is what would they want from me? Why do churches actively seek out followers? I'm guessing they're going to want money and donations - which I don't really want to give. Also they probably would want me to go to church and listen to boring ass sermons every Sunday, which I'm also not really into. Other church stuff like getting in touch with the community and some other church programs I might actually like though.

Here's one kick to the nuts on my atheism though, every time I've been really REALLY down and out, I've asked and prayed for help and after awhile it seems to have always helped. You could reason it or make sense of it logically pretty easy but I feel like its helped me and made me more open to the idea of trying out a church. I don't give a fuck what you think about that part though.

The worship of self, the worship of power, the cult of personality. Aside from the whole #SpiritCooking mindfuck, there's nothing to suggest that our government or the Clintons are a definitively "theocratic" form of evil, like say Saudi Arabia or Israel or pedo priests in the Catholic Church. Yet Communism is just as evil, but was hostile to religion. Instead it made the government itself the "church" controlling every aspect of people's lives. I don't know what you'd call this other than maybe oligarchal collectivism. But it's definitely evil, no doubt.

I've lost faith in literally everything. Supernatural explanations don't hold water, so I don't have any religion about me. But I no longer believe in America or in the possibility of populist uprisings anymore. I certainly don't have faith in the intelligence of the American people not to actually go out there and vote "with her," based purely on their own selfish reasons of feminism/open borders/keeping the gravy train running on time. Obviously not everyone is happy about this, but can't exactly do anything about it either. The corruption is too deep, and too shrewd to be shown as evil because it's got a smiling face.

So how do atheists confront 1) the problem of evil (how do they come to an understanding of why it exists and how it embeds itself into positions of power), and 2) a potential solution to it that doesn't involve mass bloodshed? Revolutions like that don't happen in first world countries. Europeans have no weapons, and the U.S. is about to end up the same way. Plus we like to think we're "above" that. Either way, whether advisable or not, an American Spring is not going to happen.

What else is there to do? You can talk and talk and point out the lack of clothes on the emperor until your face turns as blue as a California electoral map. The true believers won't listen, and the ones in power don't care. People write book after book on these subjects and nothing changes. Faith in gods has been replaced by a canonization of the ego and the temple of Mammon. What else can be done?

Or do you just give up and commit suicide like the guy in Brave New World?

I'm just curious I'm not big on religion but what made you?