It was after I studied science in my third year in middle school. We were taught that all our cells are made of organic and chemical substances. Then I realised that even our consciousness is a mere physical phenomenon. There is no soul. I also believed there is no God is everything is scientifically explainable But lately I came to thinik it over and I think there could be a God out there.
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What was the last straw
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My upbringing was totally open about these things, but i did get sent to a christian school. I was interested in dinosaurs, and read about it a lot. One day our teacher showed us a picture with people riding dinosaurs... So I spoke up and got slapped down. I remember losing trust in the guy over that. A fucking library full of stuff that contradicts him, and yet hè chose to lie to me.
RE: What was the last straw
June 24, 2014 at 11:48 am
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Well, I had the candles lit...and the circle was drawn down. The incense was in the burner and I was mumbling the proper incantations in my best Vincent Price......(hands waving menacingly, vomitting noises)I had the number of the beast dialed in for summoning-
and the fucker didn't show.....  (guy named Bayo from admin did though, said I couldn't use the conference room anymore - pure evil...it was just dripping off of him)
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Well if that's not persecution, I don't know what is.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html  (June 24, 2014 at 11:35 am)JesusHChrist Wrote:(June 24, 2014 at 11:20 am)LogicOrDie Wrote: I also believed there is no God is everything is scientifically explainable But lately I came to thinik it over and I think there could be a God out there. Are curious about my belief in God ? 
My deconversion was very gradual. Yes, there were questions now and then, but I did my best to answer them and the ones that stumped me I just figured would be answered by god himself at some future time. By the time I admitted to myself that I was an atheist, I'd probably really been one for a few years. So there's no particular moment I can point to where I decided that religion was a crock. It wasn't until I realized I did not believe in god that I climbed out of my bubble and started to learn more about religion and atheism. I didn't learn the stuff that would've made my decision easier until after I'd made it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould 
Back in... 1990... or close... I was listening to the news on the car stereo.
There was something about thebmm having footage of something happening in some remote chinese village. Right there and then I thought: "Damn, there are cameras everywhere, these days... hmmm... there's something else people say is everywhere - god - but no picture of the guy has ever come forth... hmmm.. holy crap! How come no one has seen this yet?!" 
I was 8. At the time I had a pretty thorough understanding of the hydrologic cycle. I remember it being the first piece of knowledge that captivated me. I still get that euphoric feeling when I learn how something works for the first time.
A couple influential adults tried to pass off on me that the rain and thunder had something to do with god and angels. I asked my mother about it and she agreed with the hydrologic cycle. I immediately asked what that meant about god and she told me that if I was already asking the question that I was well on my way to discovering the truth for myself. Although I couldn't have articulated it then, I had discovered that reasons for god's existence were all arguments from ignorance. I never again took the proposition seriously and suspended judgement until I learned what the truth was. 
Close observation of xtians.
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