Hello from Manchester, UK. My name is Andrew, I am 24 and I would love some sensible friends for once 
I was once ''one of them'', I sat in church, listened with a strange emptiness, like I just flawlessly accepted it. It was somewhat nice I guess, the thought that this giant ghost loved me. So I thought I would read the Bible. This was the greatest and most eye-opening thing I ever did do. Throughout the entire read I was disgusted, frightened, upset, tormented. It was so powerfully obvious to me that not one iota of it made sense or gave any hint of a well-thought out morality that I became an atheist. I then got to some real, well thought out books. The books of Christopher Hitchens, of Richard Dawkins and A. C. Grayling. This is how I want to live my life. As an free, open and normal human being. But still, I am just horrified by the people that are actually convinced that this giant ghosty man type thing actually exists. The worst conversation I EVER had in my life was with a creationist. I asked if 'If it was proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that God did NOT exist at all, what would your reaction be?' His reaction was this: 'If it was proven that God did not exist, I would still believe because I wish to live my life serving him.'
That's an introduction and a bit of a rant. BTW: I love documentaries, factual books and am a trainee actor
Peace and Love 
I was once ''one of them'', I sat in church, listened with a strange emptiness, like I just flawlessly accepted it. It was somewhat nice I guess, the thought that this giant ghost loved me. So I thought I would read the Bible. This was the greatest and most eye-opening thing I ever did do. Throughout the entire read I was disgusted, frightened, upset, tormented. It was so powerfully obvious to me that not one iota of it made sense or gave any hint of a well-thought out morality that I became an atheist. I then got to some real, well thought out books. The books of Christopher Hitchens, of Richard Dawkins and A. C. Grayling. This is how I want to live my life. As an free, open and normal human being. But still, I am just horrified by the people that are actually convinced that this giant ghosty man type thing actually exists. The worst conversation I EVER had in my life was with a creationist. I asked if 'If it was proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that God did NOT exist at all, what would your reaction be?' His reaction was this: 'If it was proven that God did not exist, I would still believe because I wish to live my life serving him.'
That's an introduction and a bit of a rant. BTW: I love documentaries, factual books and am a trainee actor
Peace and Love
For me, The biggest Biblical contradiction is this:
''Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me''
Exodus 20:4-5
I am a jealous god? Isn't that one of the seven deadly sins? Oh dear me. And even worse... He's not going to punish the person who dislikes him... but his Children, and his children's children? Without trail? Oh, so much mercy God... How merciful you really are.
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