Well, I'm 42 now and if I ever had any religious-like feelings, I outgrew them way back when I was in single figures; so far back that I have no memory of ever having any and more probably I never did. It was my parents who encouraged in me what we would now call critical thinking skills but back then it was just called common sense. They also taught me to read before I even started school so in that area as in many others I've always been advanced for the age I was supposed to be. That also explains why bad spelling and grammar has the same effect on me as fingernails on a blackboard.
However, more specifically it was my Dad who inspired and encouraged my interest in backyard astronomy (which is not a euphemism); an interest which was further fuelled by wonderfully mind-expanding science fiction of the seventies with which I grew up. Anyway, as a result I just can't take any of the god squad claims seriously. Their stories are just too damn small compared to the real magic of the Universe.
However, more specifically it was my Dad who inspired and encouraged my interest in backyard astronomy (which is not a euphemism); an interest which was further fuelled by wonderfully mind-expanding science fiction of the seventies with which I grew up. Anyway, as a result I just can't take any of the god squad claims seriously. Their stories are just too damn small compared to the real magic of the Universe.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
