RE: Atheists ONLY - Are you less happy now that you are an atheist?
November 20, 2013 at 10:04 am
I realized I was an atheist at the nice age of 9 or 10. Before that... I just went with what everyone told me, even if implicitly... catholic country all that.
I was a kid... I was as happy as a city kid can be. I played with my brother and school buddies. I went to school, got good grades, read comic books, watch cartoons and Sesame Street... we lived with our divorced dad. We liked it that way. It worked well.
As many 1st world kids, not a care in the world, except for school.
Then I realized something that people talked about was missing from the world... that all-knowing, omnipresent entity they called god.
I was the same person after that realization.
Kept getting good grades, kept living with my dad and brother, kept watching tv, cartoons, movies, etc... reading books, comics, etc... kept growing up without the delusion that I saw in others... mostly elders.
I've gone to church, on occasion... I noticed the "church population" decline, the age average increase... meaning other youngsters were coming to the same realization I came to.
I'm good. Still young at heart, still with good hopes for mankind, still naive of other people's intentions... Still thinking that justice works... still deluded by other things... just not that one.
I was a kid... I was as happy as a city kid can be. I played with my brother and school buddies. I went to school, got good grades, read comic books, watch cartoons and Sesame Street... we lived with our divorced dad. We liked it that way. It worked well.
As many 1st world kids, not a care in the world, except for school.
Then I realized something that people talked about was missing from the world... that all-knowing, omnipresent entity they called god.
I was the same person after that realization.
Kept getting good grades, kept living with my dad and brother, kept watching tv, cartoons, movies, etc... reading books, comics, etc... kept growing up without the delusion that I saw in others... mostly elders.
I've gone to church, on occasion... I noticed the "church population" decline, the age average increase... meaning other youngsters were coming to the same realization I came to.
I'm good. Still young at heart, still with good hopes for mankind, still naive of other people's intentions... Still thinking that justice works... still deluded by other things... just not that one.