
English: 
Would I want to live in an
atheist-only city, state, or country?
I don't think I would.
I don't think I'd want to live in
a place where everyone around me
was automatically
an atheist, even though
I kind of fight for that, I kind of advocate for
that to happen. I hope people watching these videos
will, you know,
somehow become atheist
and, at the same time,
I think it would be
totally weird if I lived
in a world where
everyone was an atheist.
And I think part of that
is because
a big part of
my identity now
is as an atheist. You know, any person
who's part of any sort of minority group,
you kind of cling to that and you
like that, because it makes you--
it makes you stronger, you know.
You are something that no one else is.
And I heard Greta Christina say this about
the LGBT community for a while that,
you know,
if you're gay,
you know what it's like
to be gay and you can

Spanish: 
¿Me gustaría vivir en una ciudad,
estado o país de ateos solamente?
Creo que no.
No creo que me gustaría vivir en
un lugar donde todos a mi alrededor
fueran automáticamente
ateos, aunque
me gusta luchar por ello y abogo por que suceda.
Espero que quienes vean estos videos
de algún modo
se hagan ateos
y, al mismo tiempo,
sería algo
muy extraño vivir
en un mundo donde
todos fueran ateos.
Creo que en parte
se debe a que
una gran parte
de mi identidad actual
es la de un ateo. Cualquiera que
sea parte de un grupo minoritario,
se aferra a ello y le agrada,
porque te hace...
te hace más fuerte.
Eres algo que nadie más es.
Escuché a Greta Christina decir
esto sobre la comunidad LGBT:
si eres gay,
sabes lo que es
ser gay y puedes

English: 
sympathize with other people who are going through
those same emotions, and they have to deal with the
same obstacles.
And so, you know, for someone who's gay,
it's probably a big part of their identity.
And one of the questions
that I remember her asking is,
"Well, what happens when
-- you know, LGBT issues --
what happens when
a gay or lesbian
identity
goes mainstream?
What happens
when no one cares
that you're gay, or lesbian,
or bi, or transgendered?
What happens to
your identity?
It kind of-- you have to find other things
that make you who you are.
And I think that's an important
question we have to ask ourselves.
And I know that,
right now,
I can be an atheist and I can
talk or write about atheism
and it really does make me stand out in that way.
And it makes me who I am. Like, if you ask me,
you know, "Tell me
about yourself."
Being an atheist is probably high up
on that list as silly as that might be.
But it is a big part of who I am.
And if you took that away from me,
if I was surrounded by people
who heard I was an atheist and went,
"Yeah, so what?
Me, too,"

Spanish: 
simpatizar con otros que están pasando por lo mismo
y tienen que lidiar con los mismos obstáculos.
Y para alguien que es gay, probablemente
es una gran parte de su identidad.
Una de las preguntas que
recuerdo que ella hizo fue:
"¿Qué pasará cuando
- ya sabes, temas LGBT -
qué pasará cuando
la identidad gay
o lesbiana
se haga prevalente?
¿Qué pasará cuando
a nadie le importe
si eres gay, lesbiana,
bi, o transgénero?
¿Qué pasará con
tu identidad?
Tendrás que encontrar otras cosas
que te hagan ser quien eres.
Es una pregunta importante
que tenemos que hacernos.
Y sé que,
ahora mismo,
puedo ser ateo y puedo hablar
o escribir sobre ateísmo
y me hace destacarme de esa manera.
Y me hace quien soy. Si me dices:
"dime cosas de ti".
Ser ateo probablemente estará al
tope de la lista; así de tonto como suena.
Pero es gran parte de lo que soy.
Y si me lo quitaran,
si estuviera rodeado de gente
que sabe que soy ateo y dijera:
"Sí, ¿y qué?
Yo también",

Spanish: 
tendría que encontrar
una forma diferente de describirme.
Ese es un pensamiento
que nunca he
considerado mucho,
porque en EE.UU.,
en el lugar donde vivo, que es
un área predominantemente conservadora,
no es algo de lo
que tenga que preocuparme.
Pero es curioso que,
tras luchar tanto y abogar
por que todos
pierdan su fe en Dios
y tengan fe
en sí mismos,
yo no quiera vivir
en un mundo donde todos
son ateos.
Y por cierto,
vale destacar que
sólo porque eres ateo, se podría pensar que,
si vives en un mundo donde todos son ateos
muchos problemas
desaparecerían.
Y tal vez sea cierto. Tal vez algunos conflictos
religiosos y ciertas razones religiosas que tenemos
para bloquear
cosas como
el acceso al aborto, cosas así.
Tal vez algo de eso desaparecería.
Pero es probable que haya muchos
otros problemas. Sabemos que hay ateos

English: 
then okay, well then I guess I'd have to
find a different way to kind of describe myself.
And that's a thought
I've never really
considered that much,
because in America,
in the place where I live, which is
predominantly a conservative area,
that's not something I ever
realistically have to worry about.
But it is weird to me that,
as much as I fight and advocate
for everyone to lose
their faith in God
and have faith
in themselves,
I don't think I would want
to live in a world where everyone
was an atheist.
And by the way,
it is important to note that
just because you're an atheist, you would think that,
"Oh, if you live in a world where everyone's an atheist,
a lot of problems
would go away."
And maybe that's true. Maybe some of the religious
strife we have and some of the religious reasons
we have for,
you know, blocking
things like
access to abortions, things like that.
Maybe some of that would go away.
But I think there would probably be a whole host of other
problems. I mean, we know there are atheists out there

Spanish: 
que dicen y hacen
cosas estúpidas,
tanto como nos encanta atacar a los
religiosos que dicen y hacen cosas estúpidas.
Aunque la religión
quedara fuera del panorama,
no se acabarán las
conversaciones, ni todo tipo de
desacuerdo y debates.
Tendríamos mucho para discutir,
pero no sobre Dios.
Me llamo Hemant Mehta y escribo
en FriendlyAtheist.com
Por favor, deja tus
comentarios aquí debajo.

English: 
who say and
do stupid things,
just as much as we love picking on religious
people who say and do stupid things.
So, you know, even if religion
was out of the picture,
it's not like there'd be
any shortage of
conversations,
any shortage of
disagreements and debates.
We'd have plenty to argue about,
just not about God.
My name is Hemant Mehta and I write
at FriendlyAtheist.com
Please, leave
your comments below.
