RE: When, Where, How and Why did you become Atheist?
October 6, 2015 at 10:37 am
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2015 at 10:40 am by bambi_swag.)
(October 6, 2015 at 10:15 am)abaris Wrote: Gradual process. Starting as a child, when I didn't want to believe what the priests were telling us kids. Hellfire and god taking what's dearest to us if we sin, didn't sit so well with the supposed image of an adorable deity. A long period of I don't give a shit and the final click, some 25 years ago, at a Catholic Via Dolorosa in the woods and the final answer, this is all to simplistic to be true.Seems like you had a experience with Catholics. Are Catholics the main Christian denomination in Australia? I have zero experience with Catholics.
(October 6, 2015 at 10:34 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Though reading the Bible twice cover-to-cover cured me of being a Christian, it was exposure to apologetics and logic that tipped me over to atheist about 15 years later. Understanding burden of proof was a big part of that, along with the realization that there is no such thing as good apologetics. I don't know exactly when it happened, one day I realized I had stopped believing in God entirely.Was that realization sort of a sense of sudden FREEDOM in your mind?
