Yesterday, April 13th, was apparently National Ask An Atheist Day. I missed it! Nobody asked me anything! Nobody baked me a cake! Nothing!

Well, I found this at the Digital Cuttlefish blog and thought some here might enjoy it. I won't claim everything there applies to me (I'm generally not too fond of poetry, for example) but it's a pretty good fit nonetheless.

Enjoy.

What Do Atheists Believe?
It's National Ask An Atheist Day, so I threw this together over coffee... I believe in coffee.

I believe in love and kindness
I believe in helping hands
I believe in strong opinions
I believe in taking stands
I believe cooperation
Overcomes the steepest odds
I believe we have a fighting chance

I don’t believe in gods.


I believe in education
I believe in learning science
I believe we see much further
When we climb atop of giants
I believe in writing poetry
And verses praising love
I believe that there are mysteries

But not a god above.


I believe in art and music
And the power of a voice
I believe in nature’s beauty
I believe we have a choice
I believe we have a future—
We’re in charge of how it looks—
I believe in sharing knowledge, too

But not in holy books


I believe we came from nothing
And to nothing we’ll return
I believe we don’t know everything
But much of it, we’ll learn
I believe we’re all connected
I believe all sorts of stuff
I believe we are humanity

And isn’t that enough?