Letter to the Editor: No shame in evangelical atheism

Published 4:00 pm Monday, August 3, 2026

Let me start out by stating that every human being on earth is an atheist, that’s right, and here’s why.

There have been, literally thousands of gods invented by man over the centuries but let’s pick a number, just for a basis of comparison, let’s say 5000.

OK, I am an atheist, I don’t believe in any god, Christians, Muslims, Jews are monotheists, they only believe in one god.

So the difference is, I, an atheist, don’t believe in 5000, and you, a monotheist, don’t believe in 4999, so you see by that very statement, we are all atheists.

I have no shame in trying to convince anyone to just not believe in one more.

And now the second coming and the rapture. It is estimated that the second coming has been predicted to happen between 300 and 400 times, so, not a very good track record there. If I am not mistaken, and I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong, Paul started preaching about Jesus and his teachings because he thought the end was near, go figure.

I realized at an early age that religion was a bunch of hogwash and my life experiences since then have only strengthened my resolve so I have no compunction in pointing out to anyone that, logic, evidence and science are what we should base our lives on and not some pie in the sky BS about a supreme being that no one knows anything about except what they choose to believe with zero actual evidence.

And anyone who claims to have actual evidence, please display it in these pages so it can be fact checked, you know, that thing that someone says I don’t do any of. Just sayin’.

Larry Benson

Enumclaw