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Hello All,
#1
Hello All,
Hi,

I'm Chris. An atheist from the UK.
I was brought up in a nominally Roman Catholic household. My mum believes but seemed to have stopped practising years prior to my birth. I was never baptised into the church down to being ill on the day I was booked in and my mum being too apathetic about the whole thing to re book.

I attended Roman Catholic primary school but down to not being baptised was unable to take part in the preparations for "First Holy Communion" with the other children and as such had an hour a week more maths tuition than the other kids, which because of the interests of the tutor sometimes this spilled into electronics and technical drawing.

I attended a Church of England Grammar School where most of my peer group, like myself, had difficulty believing in a divine being and it was here at the age of thirteen that I first learned that I was an atheist, prior to this age, the only term I had for myself was "Heathen" as hatefully spat from the mouth of my grandmother when I told her I didn't believe.

I investigated the gamut of pagan faiths in my early twenties, I guess I didn't want to write them off just because I'd written off Christianity. I wrote them off pretty quickly though.

Anyhow. I am the author of <snip>

Glad to meet you all.
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#2
RE: Hello All,
Sorry to be an ass by removing the link you posted but we have rules about self-promotion, you can see them here.


Welcome nonetheless!
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#3
RE: Hello All,
(May 30, 2014 at 9:19 am)Napoléon Wrote: Sorry to be an ass by removing the link you posted but we have rules about self-promotion, you can see them here.


Welcome nonetheless!

Ahh right. Understood, Thanks for the heads-up.
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#4
RE: Hello All,
Welcome Chris.

Enjoy the forum, stick around and, pretty soon, you'll be able to put your link up there for us all to bask in its glory.
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#5
RE: Hello All,
You got out at 13? Grats on that Smile

cool avi, btw
I'm a bitch, I'm a lover
I'm a goddess, I'm a mother
I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
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#6
RE: Hello All,
Welcome!
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#7
RE: Hello All,
Hey, welcome :-)
Lot of Brits on here including me and Napoleon. So you're in good company.

I also attended a grammar school which was a CofE school (in name), but in reality it was pretty secular as we had a lot of non white Christian kids too.
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#8
RE: Hello All,
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#9
RE: Hello All,
Welcome Enjoy the forum.
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#10
RE: Hello All,
Welcome. You are a writer? We can talk about that sometime.
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
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