Advantages of Being an Atheist

Two full-day weekends.

Can participate in or be a spectator of sporting and entertainment events on Sundays without guilt.

Can give money to charities that actually help people.

Not monitored by a supreme being 24/7 who has eternal life or death power over me.

Do not have to engage in conversation with an imaginary friend who never responds.

Can do the right thing because it is right, not for future reward.

Can do the right thing because it is right, not to avoid future punishment.

Do not have to sell all that I have and follow some mythical person.

Do not have to leave my family to follow some mythical person.

Do not have to seek forgiveness from anyone except those I have offended or aggrieved.

Can celebrate my humanity and all my appetites rather than stifling my humanity.

Can accept scientific development, discovery and implementation as exciting.

Can make rational decisions, not fearful decisions or decisions made by some mythical being.

Can accept the randomness of the natural world and do not seek to find a curse or supernatural explanation.

Do not have to engage in public cannibalistic rituals.

Do not have to engage in any public or private confessions to relieve guilt or to achieve future reward.

Do not have to worry about where I will go when I die. 

Do not have to engage in public self-flagellation for certain condemned behaviors.

Do not have to attempt to reconcile or explain some so-called holy book written thousands of years ago that is in conflict with what we currently know to be true.

Do not have to take some course of instruction to discover what I believe.

Can totally support the equality of women despite what some so-called holy book says.

Can totally oppose slavery despite what some so-called holy book says.

Can totally support equal treatment of all regardless of religious preference, ethnicity, sexual identity or preference despite what some holy book says.

Do not have to defer to someone else or a so-called holy book to know right from wrong.

Do not have to shave or wear special clothes on Sunday.