(October 26, 2010 at 12:19 am)Minimalist Wrote: My first realization that these people were jerks was a nun teaching Sunday school. Funny. They are their own worst enemy.
Fortunately, I have never had to experience evil nuns. However, I have had my fair share of stupid Methodist/Presbyterian Sunday school teachers (including my crazy youth director whose weekly diatribes I'm forced to listen to each Wednesday and Sunday night).
I'm forced to go to church by my parents who believe that I'm anti-God (in a way, I guess I am). This belief stems from a few questions I asked my dad about the recent Pew Research study regarding the ignorance of American Christians of their own religion. Even though I calmly asked him what I assumed were fair questions regarding his opinion about this study, he was furious, saying, "Well, which is harder? Believing in something or believing in nothing?" with the obvious correct answer being "believing in something." I felt compelled to argue the psychology of abandoning a cult mentality, but he didn't look too pleased with me at that moment, so I dropped the subject.
Despite my parents' attempts to "re-convert" me, I feel compelled to express and explore my atheistic beliefs. Instead of whining about my Sunday school teachers and my preacher, I think I'm going to start a blog documenting all of the ridiculous things they teach at church. I'm not sure yet when I'll start this blog as I'm working on the college application process at the moment. In the meantime, expect a ton of posts from me about the crap my preacher says!
"If your god has to make peace with me in my final hour when he has my whole lifetime to prove his existence to me...do you think I should bother?"
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
"But the happiness of an atheist is neither the vacuous enjoyment of a fool, nor the short-lived pleasure of a rogue. It is rather the expression of a disposition that has ceased to torture itself with foolish fancies, or perplex itself with useless beliefs." - Chapman Cohen
