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WHY I AM AN ATHEIST

< Tho reason I am an Atheist Is be

cause I could not be anything else i

Jay parents and teachers tried to

make me a goodeygoodey boy and

failed In part Then I tried honestly

und truly to bo good Went down on

my marrow bones and asked God to

show mo the way as his book had

promised I got the same answer that

those get who bow to wood and stone

minus the presence of the wood and

stone I saw that I was a bigger fool

than the heathen because he could

see his God even If he would not

move or speak This started me

again to reason and that made me an

everlasting Atheist heres no

room for a god In this busy world

no use for him since the days of

Moses It seems to me that If I we

an honest consistent Christian and

would know of all the loss of life on

and by vol

Ii the ocean and in mines

canoes and all tho suffering conse

quent thereto It would make a solid

Ji 7i Atheist of me the first jump In the

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i Ludell Kans

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WHY I AM AN ATHEIST

I cannot swallow the trinity I have

never up to this writing seen heard I

tasted feltor smelled any god ghost I

or spirit I iave no creed likewise

no god

My aim is morality and humanity

H C COPPOCK

Indianapolis Ind

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WHY I AM AN ATHEIST

Why I am an Atheist is because 1

was born that way and have held

my own ever since as the man said

who was accused of possessing no

worldly goods From my earliest re

collection I was compelled to at

tend Presbyterian Sunday school ev

ery Sunday morning and Methodist

in the afternoons when It was so

thoroughly impressed on my mind

that God was the incarnation of

goodness and if I would always do

what I didnt want to do ho would

devote a great deal of his omnipo

tence to me and my desires But let

i me go fishing on Sunday and the om

nipotent string broke and his great

rival and superior the devilone of

his own creations that was greater

than himself picked It up where god

let go and proceded to make special

preparations for my warm reception

In the sweet bye and bye

Yet I could be saved by repent

ance and tears and sacrificial contrl

tuitions but on the next infraction It

was all repeated and so on until god

In his Infinite goodness and mercy

called the name off and the winning

depended on the lit trump which

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° nine out of every hundred was held

by the devil It wrung gods heart to

y see it so and he sweated great drops

of blood over it but waif powerless

to prevent it for he himself had or

dalnea It thus before the foundations

of the world when he was nothing

and lived nowhere and a matter of

I y such importance must stand

Of course he could number the

hairs of a mans head and count the

useless sparrows and could reverse

the order of the solar system and

hold the sun and moon In check

while murder and carnage went mer

rily on and the very diadem of a

morality the purity of womanhood

was treated with contempt and fiend

ishly outraged at his express com

wand While the V above phase of Infinite

character was unfolding before my

youthful thinker I was sincerely

seeking for Information that would

throw light on the Inconsistencies

but I was ignored or punished or glv

en such absurd Interpretations that

my skepticism was confirmed and I

slowly but surely concluded that the

whole business was nothing but an

exaggerated Santa Clause the one

for children and the other for adults

and both equally false

unfolds

In later years as science

the grand truths of nature and the

good beautiful and sublime are ours

to the fullest extent of our compre

hension the idea of a god pales to

a ridiculous Insignificance and a man

must stultify his reason to believe In

one WALTER COLLINS

Los Angeles Calif

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WHY I AM AN ATHEIST

I am an Atheist because sixty years

of experience and investigation have

developed no reason for being a The

1st Whoever can point me to the

slightest Indication of the existence

of a Supremo Being has It In his

power to make an Agnostic of me

On the side I will remark that I

fl believe In the beneficence of truth

4 In truth only is there safety sanity

peace and justice And therefore do

I war unceasingly on humbug and

hallucination for these have been at

the bottom the root of nearly all the

cruelties and diabolism of humanity

C W CLARK

Allerton Iowa

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WHY I AM AN ATHEIST

Most of the thinking men and wo 1

men are becoming Aciielsrr They il

not believe In a personal God or any

God outside of matter that governs

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They believe that matter Is automa

tic selfacting needs no God or any

other power

Giordano Bruno believed In the un

It ity of matter but could not tell what

It was the Catholics burnt his for

his belief

a Aristotle said man cannot reason

correctly without reasoning from

some known fact We do know there

is electricity the atoms of which fill I

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Bruno did not see It as we do I

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I These atoms cannot be seen In Its

wonderful power until It Is manifest

ed through Its power In nature Now

by concentration of the atoms of elec

tricity Into a vacuum the sun was i

formed and took Its motion in the

universe by the polarity force of mat

ter Electricity has commenced the

universe

Tho next thing it did was to form

the planet Mercury which was done

by concentration of the atoms of elec

tricity into a vacuum and by the

polarity force of matter it took Us

ladY motion and b3 the magnetic

force of the sun it was carried round

the sun which gave It its yearly mo

tion All the other planets viz Ve

nus earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Ura

nus and Neptune were formed In the

same way and received their dally

and yearly motions the cluck In the

egg and babe In Its mothers womb

have been formed and brought to life

by the same power

Electricity has completed the uni

verse as far as astronomy has reveal

ed it to us

By evolution all nature has become

manifested to our five senses

We have the whole vegetable king

dom of this earth placed before us

and by the Idea of Aristotle the ani

mal kingdom Is an evolution of the

vegetable and the human being Is an

evoltlon of the animal kingdom by

the Darwinian system

Here we are on this earth by this

great electrical power without any

God to have created us

What was the religion of those

Atheists when there was not any

church or house on the land and no

J body to teach them superstition It

Is natural that they would worship

the sun because every thing in na

ture was revived by Its light and heat I

This would suggest something good I

or heaven and darkness with the

wild beasts ready to devour them

when they had not any place to hide

In but a cave or hollow tree for hideI

ter This would suggest the Idea of I

fear or hell I

Heaven and hell were started In

this way

Those who call themselves Chris

tlans must see that science has de

stroyed their God and devil

Christians shoulc close the doors of

their churches and stop preaching

what they know Is not true and save

their money to buy Paines Age of

Reason and other scientific books

AARON DAVIS

Frederick Md

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WHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC

I have just read many letters In the

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I have ttmtrd hem very much and I

now I will proceed to state why I am

an Agnostic First beacuse I am not

an ignoramus a non campus mentis o

or a fool I have read a great deal

pro and con on that subject and can

find nothing to lead me to ueueve in

the man made God of the universe

and if there are any gods outside the

I universe I do not know anything

about them and am going to be hon

est with myself and not pretend to b

an Ignoramus or a fool for Christs

sake N T HARRIS D D S

Tuscaloosa Ala

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WHY I AM AN ATHEIST I

Definitions are always In order

Atheist One who disbelieves or de

nies the existence of a supreme intel

ligent being Webster A God to

be a GOd must be a creator of Infi

nice power These are claimed as

Gods attributes and failing to accept

or worship such a character lays one

liable to the charge of Atheism

Let us examine the claims Crea

tor Create to bring Into being to

form out of nothing Webster

This definition is absolutely without

meaning as creation Is unthinkable

consequently absurd and untrue No

chemist has ever been able to destroy

a single atom of matter And if mat

ter is Indestructible It must be eter

nal forward and if eternal forward It

mist be eternal backward hence no

CreatorWisdom and goodness Imply per

sonality but personality Implies or

ganization and limitation And if llm

ted God could not be infinite If he

Is unlimited lie must occupy all

space and if so there is no room

for the universe But the universe Is

here and refuses to lie set aside And

s no two bodies can occupy the same

space at the same time God does

not exist A God of Infinite goodness

would desire to prevent evil Infinite

wisdom would know how to do this

and Infinite power would confer the

ability But evil exists therefore God

does not

A God must be either something or

nothing If he is something then he

Is material and if material he must

be subject to the laws of matter And

s ratiocination is an attribute of

matter in an organized form he

would be subject to disintegration

issolutlon and death To say that

God is a spirit is to admit that he

is nothingTo

To assume that the universe was

caused and that God was tho cause

does no account for the mystery of

existence but adds a new mystery to

the existing one

A first cause is as unthinkable as

a last effect and necessitates a posit

ing of a prior cause to account for the

socalled First Cause

Gods always partake of the nature

of the people who worship them

showing that their existence is asub

jective and not an objective one

The telescope spectroscope micro

scope scales and crucible the tools

with which we acquire knowledge

furnish no trace of God or gods The I

Imagination Is the source from which f

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emerge all the h TiwiH c IsM I

or cursed mankind fiW Joglcall

God Is a theological mythja logical

absurdity ft scientific Impossibility

and a moral monstrosity Jle Is an

attempt to explain tho Inexplicable

and account for the unaccountable

He Is the worst attribute of hisI

maker the priest magnified project

ed Into space and personified n bug

aboo a Mumbo Jumbo to frighten the

ignorant superstitious a heavenly

Svengall to hypotlze the prlfsts dupes

while ho rifles their pookrts

I do not believe in GMU litcalise I

havo sense enough to know that all

Gods are frauds and I have some

solicitude for my reputation for sani

ty I refuse to worship him because

I have a pardonable desire t retain

my selfrespect

That Is Why I am an Atheist

HARRY HOOVER

Carnegie Pa

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WHY I AM AN ATHEIST

Because the sentiment of justice Is

a part of my nature becawp I was

born with common sense The god

Idea is to my mind as absurll as the

story of his reputed son sired by a

shhdbyghost

ghost dam a virgin j

JOIItSpNSan

San Francisco Calif >

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WHY I AM AN INFIDEL

Because I deem It not right to He

and I am too honest to say li believe

that which my reason teaches me Is

untrue I am an Agnostic because

like Ingersoll I dont know I am a

Freethinker because I think It every

mans duty to do his own thinking

and come to his own conclusions with

stability and bravery enough to abide

by the consequences of his own ac

tions E G NICHOLS

Dodge Ky

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WHY I AM AN ATHEIST

Because It has dawned upon me

that It Is right to be so and upon in

vestigation I find no real evidence of

the divine origin of the sculptures

And because I cannot as a refined

and respectable woman take 1m3

bosom as a daily guide a book oil such

low morals and degrading Influinces

Written by a lot of priests T cannot

accept a salvation that is based wholly

upon the dreams of an base nt and

superstitious people with no proof

save blind faith

Everything that so many people

think transpires from the sup rnatu

al and many things that would really

perplex the average mind havj a nat

ural and material foundations in the

workings of the human mind that Is

things that are not connect d with

our solar system

It Is Ignorance of the scientific

working of their own natures and

mind that keep so much myst ry In

the air and as long as titer Is a

mystery afloat the people will 1 scribe

it to the supernatural mrstlr3

I am an Atheist because I kn > w the

Bible will not do to depend tij on I

have tried It and found It wanting

In fact I found In the scrpturea

was Tie 1 UOtlsnl ippints

to oppress women and keep them In

the realms of Ignorance I

I am In the ranks 01 Liberalism be

cause of its elevating principles its

broad road to freedom of thought

speech and investigation

MINNIE PARRISH

Leonard Texas

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WHY I AM AN ATHEIST

The term Atheist is viewed by most

people in that part of the clvllllzed

world known as Christendom as be

IngHhe most hideous of Ideas and the

person entertaining such an idea

to be shunned as though they

were criminals or moral lepers So

this being the case most people that

hold such an idea and dare express

It are persons above the average in

Intelligence Every persons god is only hln

conception of nature We are like

primitive man every one that thinks

or observes nature to any extent nat

urally wonders how and when came

the Cosmos and all phenomena of

which they can conceive

Here without scientific knowledge

theology supplies the demands of the

imagination until he can be better In

formed To my mind astronomy and

geology have done more to wrest thoi

minds of man from the clutches of

heology and superstition than any

thing else

I am an Atheist because there Is

no God The term atheist means

a disbelief in God I take it that there

are two kinds of Atheism nominal

atheism and positive atheism Nomi

nal atheism Is merely a disbelief in

God The other positive atheism Is

the assertion that there Is not and

cannot be such a being as theologys

God I belong to the latter class

I believe that all rational people at

some time In life doubt the existence

of God especially a personal God but

not understanding nature cannot ma

are good atheistic thoughts The ma

terialIst conception of all things is the

true scientific conception

There cannot be such a phenominon

as a God a supreme being or any

thing of the kind for science has

proven that matter in the aggregate

or atomic condition has no beginning

cannot be destroyed or annihilated so

It must have always existed at all

times and every where So we come

to these three Infinite conditions In

finite space Infinite matter matter

or force not separate and infinite du

ration and out of these three infinite

conditions have evolved all phenom

ena Matter Is divided Into seventyone

elements these elements afllnitize or

repulse each other as the case may

be and this process of the action of

elements acting on each other as they

cannot act according to their relation

to every other element about them Is

what we call nature or cause and ef

fect the same Is an endless causation

has no beginning the effect of one

cause becomes the cause of another

effect so on and on We find that life

and death are but a condition of mat

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The Cosmos Is purely physical and

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mechanical j there Ig not phenomena

that has not a physical law for its

base Wo could say a great deal here

about design but do not care to

tako up so much space The design

theory is the only plausible one that

Is put forth to prove the existence ofi

a god It will not do we can seeI

more disorder In nature than order

that is from the biological standpoint

while nature In her process of cause I

and effect Is orderly but as to the

welfare of the different forms of life

It Is very disorderly

Man eats tho chicken the chicken

cats the snake the snako cats the

frog the frog cats the fly and the

fly eats other Insects all this strife

of life or loss ot life to sustain life

A man at forty knows no more about

theologys God than he did at ten

God docs not appear now or at any

other time because there Is no God

to appear To be a god there would

have to be p form of matter wouldI

all other forms appear and disappear

which Is the order of all organized

forms of life Consequently God

would not and could not be all and

in all as they nro wont to tell us

R W RAY

Atlanta Oa

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WHY I AM AN AGNOSTIC

I am an Agnostic because I simply

and honestly do not know that there

Is a God that I have a soul or what

conies after death

ELIZABETH HENRY SPARKS

Carlisle Ky

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MAN AND HIS DESTINY

The Ylews of a Materialist Philoso

pher and > a Pessimist

To the Editor of the Sun

SlrOer a half a century ago

brave Harriet Martlneau said From

tho moment when a man desires to

find the truth on one side rather than

on the other It Is all over with him

as a philosopher This Implies that

in searching for truth we must Ig

nore preconceived notions likes and

dislikes emotional sentiments etc

and base our belief strictly upon evi

deuce and facts

The Innumerable arguments which

are continually advanced by the

clergy and your correspondents

based upon the alleged universal

human longings and desires for con

tinuous life weigh not a fraction of

a hair In settling tho question of our

postmortem fate If they didif

our preferences could be a factor In

the matter all that would be neces

sary for human beings to live a hun

dred years or forever In the flesh

here on this earth would bo to In

tensely desire such prolonged sub

lunary existence and then behold I

their wishes and caprices would be

forthwith realized If not a factor

now and here to prolong Indefinitely

our present life how can such vague

egoistical notions possibly procure for

us Immortality when tho human body

as such living organic form exists

no more

moreNature

Nature or God Is sadly inconsid

orate of our welfare and notions W

are all ushered Into existence with a

death warrant In the hands of Fate

and doomed to go through our brief

life like convicts sentenced to an

early death We long In vain for

continued health happiness and pros

perity but instead ate mostly af

flicted with disease pale and sorrow

How many actresses famous singers

public men and society women in

tensely yearn for prolonged youth

beauty and tho continuation of their

prime In life only to behold their

charms and talents speedily fade and

vanishMillions

Millions struggle bravely for many

years In commercial and professional

pursuits build elegant homes grand

business houses occupy enviable po

sitions of honor only to be compell

ed after a very brief period to leave

all In possession of strangers

Are we not In love with this life

Is It not really a prolongation of

earthlife we all most desire Who

would not cheerfully resign life

claims to a mystic inscrutable eter

nal lifeminus the physical body

for a paltry hundred years of physi

cal health and vigor added to the life

we know the life we possess and en

joy because In possession of a tangs

ale body of flesh and blood

But what does Nature or God care

for us Must not this wondrous phy

sique which constitutes our ego and

without which we can not even think

of ourselves as men and women soon

go back to dust disintegrate Into

gases fluids soil vegetation and the

owes order qf ahimhV lifeIs it r4

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when the form which originated aU

constituted individual man during life

exists no more the man Is dead

There Is no mystery about death

whatever It is precisely what it ap

pears to be what we all know it to

bo from observation and experience

The sole mystery connected with It

s simply the mystery with which it

has been Invested by designing or ig

norant men If we confine our belief

concerning it to what we know and

sco we have the entire truth

At the time life ceases the total

dynamic activities of the human

structure simply stop that Is all not

a grain of anything to make the sur

viving soul or spirit ofnot even

tho breath escapes as supposed

In view of all of this is it reason

able to believe that the power that

controls our exlstencewhatever

this may boand so utterly and cruel

ly Ignores our wishes now during

the only life we know should so rad

ically change Its mode of procedure

as to grant us a mysterious eternal 1

existence In the absence of the com

plex organic structure which we know

to be an absolute necessity for our

existence here And this transcen

dent existence is utterly Incompre i

hensible to us unknown to science

and in localities nondlscoverablo with

the strongest telescopes or photo

plates

If wo can live during eternity with

out this wonderful complicated phy

slcalvltaldynamlc mthe

crowning work of God as it has been

called why In the name of reason

I ask has this body been bestowed

upon us for a few paltry years only

Neither is the universality of the

belief In Immortality an argument in

its favor Many of the wisest men of

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It does not put the disease to sleep

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all nations have rejected It The

Egyptians Grecians Hindoos the

American Indians Catholics Protes

tant Spiritualists and Theosophists

all entertain radically antithetical

views of a future life All Christians

of the Now Theology from Jeerer

son Franklin Clmnntng Emerson

Parker to Savage Swing and Thom I

as peremptorily reject the views of I

the old school theologians pagans

and heathens alike as grossest sup

erstition If then these several be 1

liefs contradict and are destructive

of each other how can they conjoint jl

ly prove that any one Is based upon

truthLike i

Like auses produce like effects All

AllI

nations and races in tho past having I

been alike Ignorant alike conceited I

in their own selfimportance alike j

controlled by their emotions alike

clinging to life and fearing death alllCI

alike consequently originated similar

beliefs It proves universal Ignor

ance not eternal life Many wise in

other directions inherited these Irra

tional beliefs and accepted and pro I

mulgated them without personal in

vestigation I

vestigationinn

Ian actually Is a transient form

of matter a purely physical product

of purely physical causes All formsI

of matter are mutableall begin all

endthe separate elements composI

Ing all forms alone persist Hence

man Is not Immortal j

O threats of Hell and hopo of ParaI

chisel

One thing at least Is certainthis

life flies

One thing Is certain and the rest IsI

lies

The flower that once has blown for I

ever dies

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Where there Is thought there must

be a thinkersome organic structure 1

which thinks the physical generates 1

1psychl

and effect Remove the cause and the

effect vanishes In the air ace of or

IB nervous i system i and Wain there

otPr e tfiot

itiid attributes of a human being

hence when man is Inhumated or ore

mated he exists no more To say he

survives the destruction of the body

is equivalent to affirming that man

can exist made of nothing

To affirm that this is horrid doc

trine is only to exhibit Ignorance

Nothing can be horrid to the dead

The present condition of future gen

erations cannot be horridthe deadI

dition of the dead is identical Eter

nal life however possibly Implies

even In the absence of a literal hell

horrors beyond conceptionOTTO

OTTO WETTSTEIN

La Grange Ills

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