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I don’t believe in God.
(Via Doug Matthews) I don’t believe in God. Not only am I an atheist; I’m also a free thinker, an independent, a philosopher, a truth seeker, and a pragmatic constituent of veracity. I don’t need a magical space wizard to tell me how to conduct my life. I don’t need the stress and worry of [...]
My transition
(Via Danelle Pack) My transformation into the Atheist I am today happened in stages. It started four years ago. I was raised as a Christian, and even called myself born-again. I married a non-believer. He would never have called himself an atheist to my face, but I knew he had doubts. He liked to paint [...]
My Story
(Via Pockets) I grew up in a loving Christian house; my father went to parochial school until he was in high school. My mom has always been active in church for longer than I can remember. I started going to the local Catholic Church from the time I was baptized (infant) till I was probably [...]
How I Did It
(Via Jerry Brown) From my earliest years I was indoctrinated with what I call the Pascal/Graham Syndrome: Believe a cruel, inhumane story or be punished in hell eternally for doubting it. And, since I couldn’t prove the story to be false, I had better believe it, because “eternity is a long time.) The problem was, [...]
Atheist Me
(Via James) From the time I was born until I was about ten or so, my family was devoutly christian. I recall going to church and enjoying it, I would even sing at my grandparents church (my grandfather was a pastor). I was never particularly devout though, far to young to fathom such concepts as [...]
How Love Trumped God
(Via Erica) Aside from sporadic Sunday church attendance in childhood, I was pretty much apathetic to religion or atheism until the age of 14. When I started high school, one of our marching band’s part-time assistants was a youth pastor at the church of Christ across the street from our practice field. He invited everyone [...]
Always an Atheist
(Via Roy Fischler) I was always an atheist, as far back as I could have an opinion on the matter. My immediate family members were all atheists. Even my large extended family were virtually all atheists, as I gradually learned in more recent years.We’re Jewish, ethnically, and I’ve read that Jews have the highest rate [...]
Why I am an athiest
(Via Chris) Well, I was never really raised with any religion. I heard people mention Jesus or Muhammad from time to time, but just kind of figured it was some leader somewhere, i didn’t really care. My mom i guess is kind christian, and we celebrated Christmas, but religion was never a part of it. [...]
Third Generation Atheist
(Via Tom) My grandparents (on my mother’s side) arrived from Poland through Ellis Island during World War One, and immediately upon arrival had their names changed (by others) and dropped their religion (by themselves). They were Communists with a capital C and lived their whole lives devoted to the ideal of everyone contributing what they [...]
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