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Growing Up the Second Time Around
(Via Kent Schlorff) Author’s Note: As this is intended to be a therapeutic piece for myself, and an inspirational piece to other atheists, I concede that the piece is long winded. You have been forewarned. I was born into a Catholic family in Champaign, Illinois, home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My mother [...]
Eric’s Story
(Via Eric Amundrud) I guess that I have always felt godless. It was the pressure of family and friends that kept me in the belief system in which I was raised. It has been a long journey to where I am now. It includes spending time as: Episcoplian, Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism, Southern Baptist, Pentecostal, Roman [...]
Steven’s Story
(Via Steven) I am 13 years old, and I’m an atheist. I started thinking about religion after reading The Prophet of Yonwood when I was eleven. The book said something about one religion knowing they were right, and another religion knowing they were right too. When I turned twelve, I became an on and off [...]
silverd’s Story
(Via silverd) I was born into a Catholic family. My grandmother was the ‘influncer’ on all things religion-that is the reason my immediate family went to church every Sunday, I went to a private school, and went to Sunday school. I was always the troublemaker though. Diagnosed with ADHD when I was 3, I was [...]
Catholic School Made Me An Atheist
(Via FallacyFallacy) Firstly, I should probably clarify that I grew up in Australia, and that I’m still only 18 years old, so this is all quite recent. My parents raised me I an environment sort of outside of religion. I knew it existed, vaguely, but didn’t really know much about it. Whenever I asked my [...]
My Atheism
(Via Chad Matise) I was baptized when I was a baby at a Catholic church. Besides that I rarely went to church. I considered my dad and mom non-practicing Catholics, at that time. When I did go to church it was with my grandmother. So, I just believed because that is what I was told [...]
Religion, our ball and chain
(Via Ryan) Like most Americans and people around the world I grew up being taught the ways of a specific religion. I am a confirmed Roman Catholic, however if this could be removed I would, and attended Sunday school and various “required” religious studies until my confirmation. Although I was always skeptical about the idea [...]
Amanda’s Story
(Via Amanda Tetz) My story is a fairly boring one, and it mostly starts with my Mom’s story… Basically, I was born to a 19-year-old mother who was a part of the Catholic church her whole life. She was devout, loved church and she had jumped through all the hoops, so to speak. (First Communion, [...]
The Godless Life Is The Good Life
Looking back on my life I was lucky to have been raised in a free thinking, relatively religion free household. Both of my parents had been raised in pretty strict catholic families. My dad was an atheist and my mom was only moderately religious.
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I had the good fortune to be raised by nominally Catholic parents who “believe in belief,” as Daniel Dennett puts it. I can only imagine that they took their faith more seriously in the past. When it came to religion, they once explained that they hadn’t had me baptized as an infant so that I could first attend Sunday school and fully appreciate the meaning of the ceremony.
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