Always Godless
My Short Personal Journey to Atheism
(Via Mark) My name is Mark and I am an atheist. I was born and raised in the rural area of Missouri just around 30-40 miles west of St. Louis, back in the 1960s when Martin Luther King Jr. was conducting peace marches all over the South. I remember mumbling the words of the Pledge [...]
Tina’s Story
(Via Tina Burton) As I look back now on my past as a young person, I didn’t know anything. I thought there was a god, but only because it was expected, and fear of someone always watching me. A few years back my son and I started discussing religion and I came to the conclusion [...]
Two Two Two for one!
(Via Andy Barnes) I’m certain I was the only child in my rural, Midwestern community who was raised by an agnostic mother and a vitriolic Atheist father. To further complicate my story, and my life in Bargersville, IN (which, 25 years ago wasn’t the bustling metropolis it is today!), I decided in the first grade [...]
Always Godless
(Via Ryk) I wasn’t actually raised an atheist. Both of my parents technically professed a religion. Dad was Methodist, Mom was southern Baptist. However they never went to church or talked about God or the Bible. Religion was strictly a label and not a very frequently worn one. I figured out early on that my [...]
Kelsey’s Story
(Via Kelsey Graham) i have been an atheist since i was maybe twelve. before that, my incredibly christian relatives insisted upon forcing me into religion. most of my life until the age of twelve, though, i was an agnostic trying to figure out why i was supposed to believe in god. after coming godless, i [...]
Sonny’s Story
(Via Sonny Myhrr) When I was a baby I saw my father for the first time and at that time I knew I would Die young and suffering. My grandfather died young suffering. I saw an image of him while I was in my crib looking into the sunlight! I have always been smart and [...]
We Don’t Need No Stinking Closets
(Via Godless Bastard) I never came out of the atheist closet because I was never in it. Even as a small child I knew that religion was pure bunk. I’m no smarter or more aware than anyone else, and not that I would expect every young child to come to such a terminal realization, but [...]
The irrelevance of god
(Via ArchangelChuck) Okay, I’ll bite. My story isn’t as interesting as most people’s. The realization of — and reconciliation with — my nonbelief was nothing special. There was no epiphany, there was no grim realization that everything I believed and had been told most of my life was a lie. There was no great divide [...]
Inspiration isn’t a strong enough word
(Via Michael Caton) I have no coming out story; I consider myself very lucky to have been raised atheist. But it’s worth submitting here that everyone who comes out in a religious family or community has earned the undying admiration of me and every other atheist in the world.
Why I’m a Humanist
(Via Abi) Before I start rambling, if you want to know what Humanism is all about…. I thought I’d write about my reasons for being Humanistic… I had an odd and sort of fractured childhood, but when I was very little I remember my parents were evangelistic Christians, or whatever the correct term is…. I [...]
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