Apatheism

It's raining and shitty out.  The kind of weather that soaks leaves and pine needles and makes driving doubly dangerous because every turn is caked in slimy tree droppings.

And yet, an hour ago, two Jehovah Witnesses show up at the door.

Seriously?  This is a god who interests you?  A guy who sends you out in inclement weather to annoy people in their homes?  I truly don't get it.

My usual response to these people is:  "Are women still the root of all evil in your little morality play?"

And it is, so the followup is always, "I need you to leave."

It baffles me how or why any woman could buy into that horseshit.  It's a religion BASED on the supposition that women are less than men.  What happened to you to make you think you deserve that kind of treatment?

Maybe the true message escapes me, but the Garden of Eden story always struck me thusly:  Adam wanted to sit on his ass, eat takeout and play X-Box forever.  Eve wanted to go to college.

Eve is evil for demanding a better life and forcing Adam off the couch.

This is reasonable to people?  This is the gender hierarchy you support?

If so, you really need to get and stay the fuck away from me.  I have no time for this idiocy.  And frankly, the fact that you buy into your own inferiority and want to spread it to me is so offensive, I literally seethe with rage when you dare to bring that shit to my front door.

I'm an apatheist.  I do not give a damn if there is a god or if there is not.  God is completely irrelevant to me and my life.  I'm not interested in a "creator," I think the entire concept is bullshit. 

I don't have any concrete proof, nor am I trying to dissuade others.  I just don't want any part of this weird idea that we're all pawns in the chess game of some godlike figure whose approval we should strive to get.  And I flat-out refuse to be bullied into living my life according to someone else's reliance on his belief in a higher power.  I care about the here and now.  I pay attention to what's in front of me.  The notion of an afterlife or some heavenly reward is so ridiculous to me, I feel like anyone who would propose such a thing must be talking to a child because no adult in her right mind would buy into something so obviously a tool of obedience.

Following the herd was just about the worst thing you could do when I was growing up.  My parents taught me to haul ass in the other direction when people tried to make me part of a group in which my personality or my desires would be suppressed.  They taught me to trust my instincts, and if something felt wrong, then it was wrong.

Why doesn't driving around to strangers' homes trying to get the occupants to join a cult of inferiority feel wrong to those people?