Religion:
My God-Given Right to be an Atheist

"God only knows"
"one nation under God"
"in God we trust"
"God bless you"
"God-given rights"

I don't believe in gods, not YHWH, not Mazda, not Zeus. So what do the above phrases mean to me?

"God only knows": No one knows.

 

"one nation under God": a nation under the sovereignty of no person, a nation beneath no one

 

"in God we trust": we trust in no individual persons, not in kings or pontiffs (but rather in laws and principles)

 

"God bless you": may you be blessed

 

"God-given rights": rights given us by no one, there is no person in whose name we have rights

 

Certain religious sayings make more sense when you insert the word "nothing" in place of the word "God."

 

"When you die, you become one with God."

 

"They're in God's hands now."

 

"God has a special plan for your life."

 

"Before there was a universe, there was God."

 

"Homosexuality is an abomination before God."

 

—JoT
March 2002
November 2001

 

Proof that God Exists (Probably): error and belief

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