Name: Heather Buchanan
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Organization affiliation: none
Label: Secular Humanist
Tagged with: Calgary • Canada • female • Secular Humanist • womanAbout you: I’m a passionate and enthusiastic atheist. I started looking at my life before and after becoming an atheist, and I began to realize all the amazing positive changes that came from the simple act of leaving religion behind. My love for Jesus and passion for religion can’t begin to compare to the love and passion in my life now. When you base your life on reality and evidence, a lot of good can come of it. I’m excited about sharing these ideas, and hearing other people’s stories about how life got better when they became atheists.
I’m not a scientist, so I can’t always adequately articulate the beautiful evidence in that lead me down the path of truth and reason. I’ll leave that to those who are more qualified. Instead, I feel my role in the atheist community is to encourage a discussion about the philosophical and practical differences between having a belief in god and lacking a belief in god. Daily life changes when you remove a belief in magic from your mind, and I’m confident that most people will find that these changes are wonderful. Religion tries to maintain its monopoly on hope, meaning, and having a sense of community. I don’t think this is right. I think we can work together to find ways to feel hopefully and inspired without relying on myths that can’t possibly be true.
I think we can create meaning in our own lives by figuring out what we’re passionate about, and then spending as much time as possible cultivating those passions. And I think we can all have wonderful friendships without needing a church to provide them for us. There is nothing that religion has to offer that we can’t have without it. Reality is far more amazing, far more strange, and far more fulfilling than religion could ever be.
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I feel the same as you do about our atheist world. I enjoy your videos on you tube as completelylovely. Your positive energy and friendly demeanor is refreshing and uplifting. You are a very nice, positive face for others to see and listen to. Thank you.
You said everything I would, but in a kinder, lovelier, Hyperactive demeanour.
Been a fan for a year now, keep them coming.
I think we all feel love for humanity.
Let’s change the world ( i really mean it).
Its time for a new age of enlightenment.
Excellent. Thank you !
Heather,
you are on the right track to become the anti-pope…
Ok, stop joking: I like your ideas and your enthusiastic way to share them. I have been following your youtubecastings for several months and I wish you a lushing philosophical activity on this website too!
Mic
Italian apostate
Very true!
Thank you!
I wish I could speak with such passion!
I felt the exact same way heather when crossing the threshold from theism to atheism, it’s funny because I read and heard so many stories of this and they all seem to follow a similar path. The Passion that you exude is beautiful in itself. Thanks
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You rock! Thanks for this post!
carry on the good work.
do you know of the zeitgeist movement?
if not, pls google it up
Are you Christian? If yes, then you sulhod know that you sulhod be seeking males to marry that are as strong in your Christian faith as you are. God gave us those guidelines to really help us down the road. When I married I wasn’t very religious, but thank God I married a man who also felt God was real and we’ve grown together. So if you are Christian, keep your future in mind, not just the present. If you’re not Christian, then I suggest you sit down with your family and tell them you simply have different values. That although they don’t have to accept it, you are living your own life using your free will. I wish you the best and I hope you find real happiness.