text: why is it so un-pc to be an atheist? fear v. love  it's not about being afraid of god it's about love.  stop spreading your fear about.  if you are afraid of what's going to happen to you after you die and do things to affect that, then you are ultimately being selfish by being concerned by your (imaginary) afterlife above everything else around you.  forget god, forget jesus, forget allah, forget elephant-boy, and stop for a moment and take a look around you.   people are starving, people are oppressed, people are poor.   let's stop talking about the "after-life" and help our brothers and sisters, love them as a god would...  that is the true meaning of religion, and i'm an atheist. i agree with you 100% .  i too am an athiest, but i have great respect for the teachings of the religions, whether islam, jdaism, christianity, hindu etc.  the basic belief is summed up by the christian commandment of "do unto others..."   the problem comes when we get an "our god's better than your god" type of confrontation, because that is just using religion as a tool to promote racism, and that is absolutely against everything that most religions stand for!  i'll get off my soap box now.