Two Atheist Dreams in a Row!
Ariela Haro von Mogel April 7th, 2009
As much as I don’t want to admit this, I am technically an atheist. A Jesus-lovin’ atheist. So yeah, I’m a little weird in connection with other atheists. But I suppose the saying about atheists is right, that getting atheists to organize is like herding butterflies. We are different.
Anyways, the past two nights (in consecutive dream-order, not calendar date order) that I have had dreams, I had very vocal and opinionated atheist dreams. Who knew?! I always considered my husband, the opinionated atheist in the relationship, as The Atheist, and myself as an indeterminate quantity of atheist. So this comes as a shock to me.
In the first dream, I was telling a conductor that I had for one of my choir classes that Mozart’s Jubilate Deo is sooo exquisitely beautiful that it actually makes me disbelieve in a god! It seems amazing to me that God would kill Mozart at the young age of 35 (going on 36) and halt his development as the most brilliant composer of all time. It almost seems like God would want to prolong Mozart’s life as his ecclesiastical music was a beautiful homage to Him.
You know what my husband retorted when he heard about all of this. Maybe God is the Muslim God and didn’t want Mozart to praise the Christian God. Smart aleck.
In the second dream, I was apparently arguing with a Christian evangelist about how atheists are going to hell for their choice to disbelieve in a god. The interesting part was the line of argument I used in my dream. As a little background, I am definitely an opinionated and vocal feminist, and have always wondered to myself why, if men think so little of women and want to use them only for sex and domestic services, why form intimate relationships with such pathetic and vile creatures? I have always respected a consistent misogynist (The philosopher Schoepenhauer being an excellent example – who would never even associate with women). So, my argument against the evangelist was the same. If atheists are such evil-no-god-havin’ excuses for human beings, why bother preaching the Good Word to them? Just let them go to Hell. They don’t care about them anyways. But, ofcourse, my dream evangelist was like “But it’s my Duty to Save you.” And you know what my dream retort was, “Don’t do God’s dirty work.”
Geez, even in my dreams, I’m a smart aleck like my husband.
Ariela…you have weird dreams…
Thanks Jie… And you know that’s just the tip of the iceberg!!