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The anticlimactic ‘coming out’

February 12, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Well, over the last couple of weeks I’ve been making a serious effort to ‘come out’ as an atheist. Granted, my status on myspace and whatnot has said ‘atheist’ for ‘religion’ for years now (prior to that I was agnostic, so there was absolutely no response to that change.)

The testimonial of an atheist geek…

April 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(Via Rocky Oliver) I have been an “out of the closet”, publicly avowed atheist for many years. But I didn’t start that way. Being Southern I was raised, as most people are down here, as an evangelical Christian – my particular flavor was Southern Baptist. I even attended a Christian school for 2.5 years (middle [...]

The Black Milk Bottle Story

March 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(Via David Michael) My earliest religious memory is a picture in the Catholic Baltimore Catechism showing three bottles of milk to explain sin and the state of grace. There was a black bottle of milk to show the result of mortal sins, a grey bottle for venial sins and a bright white bottle for being [...]

Confederacy of Dunces

February 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(Via Michael Bunn) I was not raised religious. My family’s religious background is Unitarian Universalist, a faith that I truly respect for its inclusiveness and beautiful message of peace, as well as its uniqueness among Judeo-Christian sects in its adherence to the message it espouses. Its focus is not on Jesus or God, but on [...]

The Shafts of Light Found Me

August 13, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

(Via Alexis) I never went looking to become an atheist. I went to a Christian and Missionary Alliance church in St. Pete., Florida from as early as I could remember, singing “Jesus Loves the Little Children, All the Children of the World, Red and Yellow Black and White, They are Precious in His Sight…” While [...]