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My Story
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My Story
I suppose I should begin at the beginning.

My parents are both Christians. They were both raised in very conservative Christian households. So they brought me up in one. I went to Vacation Bible School and Sunday School and church every Sunday and things like that. I guess I believed it because I had always been told that it was true.

When I was 13, I became one of the core members of our church's youth group. I kept on that for a long time. I went to the Synod Youth Gatherings, to church camp, still went to youth forum, all that jazz. Last summer I went to Leadership Quest, a camp in Minnesota, which I considered to be the best week of my life at the time.

Sometime freshman year in high school, I started to get depressed. I eventually tried to kill myself, and obviously failed. I started to lose my faith. Then I began to listen to Rage Against the Machine, my favorite band. They really opened my eyes to a lot of the bigotry and hypocrisy involved in religion. I started questioning things until the whole idea of God sounded totally ludachris to me!

And here I am today. I've been an atheist for less than a year, but I think I'll be one the rest of my life.
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RE: My Story
Hi and welcome Zapata.
the whole idea of God sounds totally ludachrist to me as well! Tongue
Atheism as a Religion
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A man also or woman that hath a Macintosh, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with used and abandoned Windows 3.1 floppy disks: their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 20:27
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