HI!
September 8, 2010 at 1:30 pm
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2010 at 1:36 pm by Skipper.)
Hello,
Just thought I'd put a quick post here to introduce myself and just share a bit about my background, while I was never a "true" Christian I did have what could amount to being called a Christian upbringing or at least a Christian element to my life so thought this would be a good place to post instead of the introductions forum.
I'm 21, male and live in the south of England. I went to a Church of England primary school and had a christening (although im pretty sure this was just a way of my mum getting me into the school as it was rated well and more importantly the closest one to our house). We were / are far from a Christian family and never had a god/religion element to my home life. I enjoyed my time at the school, and despite being made to pray and sing every day, generally the view of god was a relaxed one and not forced upon us to heavily. I left the school not really knowing where I stood in relation to a creator and religion in general, we were told all the usual Christian stories, Noah, Adam and Eve blah blah blah...but I guess I left seeing these as more figurative than true to the word accounts.
I spent my teenage years not really thinking about where I was with the idea of a higher power, just spent my time being a teenager really, but in the last 4 years or so I have come to the conclusion that I the idea of a higher being, an all powerful, all knowing, conscious creator is absurd. I am an Atheist . Once I realised this is how I viewed things I then began to dissect how I felt on religion itself. Simply put I feel it's a load of crap. A dangerous load of crap that the world and it's people would be better off without.
Overall I feel lucky that while I did go to a religious school, it was a fairly laid back religious school teaching a religion that compared to some others (*cough* Islam *cough*) is a fairly easy one to walk away from in the context of it's beliefs and the culture it is a part of.
So yea, sorry it's rather long winded but once I got started it was hard to stop...... Hi!
Just thought I'd put a quick post here to introduce myself and just share a bit about my background, while I was never a "true" Christian I did have what could amount to being called a Christian upbringing or at least a Christian element to my life so thought this would be a good place to post instead of the introductions forum.
I'm 21, male and live in the south of England. I went to a Church of England primary school and had a christening (although im pretty sure this was just a way of my mum getting me into the school as it was rated well and more importantly the closest one to our house). We were / are far from a Christian family and never had a god/religion element to my home life. I enjoyed my time at the school, and despite being made to pray and sing every day, generally the view of god was a relaxed one and not forced upon us to heavily. I left the school not really knowing where I stood in relation to a creator and religion in general, we were told all the usual Christian stories, Noah, Adam and Eve blah blah blah...but I guess I left seeing these as more figurative than true to the word accounts.
I spent my teenage years not really thinking about where I was with the idea of a higher power, just spent my time being a teenager really, but in the last 4 years or so I have come to the conclusion that I the idea of a higher being, an all powerful, all knowing, conscious creator is absurd. I am an Atheist . Once I realised this is how I viewed things I then began to dissect how I felt on religion itself. Simply put I feel it's a load of crap. A dangerous load of crap that the world and it's people would be better off without.
Overall I feel lucky that while I did go to a religious school, it was a fairly laid back religious school teaching a religion that compared to some others (*cough* Islam *cough*) is a fairly easy one to walk away from in the context of it's beliefs and the culture it is a part of.
So yea, sorry it's rather long winded but once I got started it was hard to stop...... Hi!
