Hello,
I've been skeptical of religion my entire life. I had the fortune of being surrounded with books at a young age and learned to read at an early age, and my favorite topic was science. So, since my family is also Christian, when I went to Sunday School and began to be able to understand what the Sunday school teachers were really saying, I was skeptical because it went against what I already learned. Fast forward several years, and I start taking a more mature interest in faith matters around my junior year, though my investigations began in my freshman year when I looked into other religions, before deciding that religion wasn't really for me, and I didn't even know if I believed in god. In my junior year, I studied the different forms of Christianity, briefly considered myself a Christian ( however, I wanted to be Catholic, and my parents were Baptist) , and also became very interested in paranormal phenomenon. After a while, thanks to the DaVinci Code movie ( as silly as that may seem ), I became interested in the history of Christianity and while the way the novel portrayed it wasn't right, I did find out a lot. That and my renewed skepticism of the paranormal brought me around to being a non-believer. After I graduated high school, I started studying philosophy, particularly Friedrich Nietzsche ( though nowadays, other than his atheism, I don't really agree with much of what he says). Ever since then, i've read tons of books on philosophy, science, and the history of Christianity. Now my bookshelf is overflowing with books by the likes of Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Greg Graffin, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Nietzsche, Hume, and many other writers on philosophy and science. I also write my own work and am considering publishing. I'm on my way to being a Philosophy professor. Other than that, i'm interested in lingustics, particuarly the Germanic language family. I've studied the German language for a few years as well.
That's a brief history of my spiritual development.
I've been skeptical of religion my entire life. I had the fortune of being surrounded with books at a young age and learned to read at an early age, and my favorite topic was science. So, since my family is also Christian, when I went to Sunday School and began to be able to understand what the Sunday school teachers were really saying, I was skeptical because it went against what I already learned. Fast forward several years, and I start taking a more mature interest in faith matters around my junior year, though my investigations began in my freshman year when I looked into other religions, before deciding that religion wasn't really for me, and I didn't even know if I believed in god. In my junior year, I studied the different forms of Christianity, briefly considered myself a Christian ( however, I wanted to be Catholic, and my parents were Baptist) , and also became very interested in paranormal phenomenon. After a while, thanks to the DaVinci Code movie ( as silly as that may seem ), I became interested in the history of Christianity and while the way the novel portrayed it wasn't right, I did find out a lot. That and my renewed skepticism of the paranormal brought me around to being a non-believer. After I graduated high school, I started studying philosophy, particularly Friedrich Nietzsche ( though nowadays, other than his atheism, I don't really agree with much of what he says). Ever since then, i've read tons of books on philosophy, science, and the history of Christianity. Now my bookshelf is overflowing with books by the likes of Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Greg Graffin, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, Nietzsche, Hume, and many other writers on philosophy and science. I also write my own work and am considering publishing. I'm on my way to being a Philosophy professor. Other than that, i'm interested in lingustics, particuarly the Germanic language family. I've studied the German language for a few years as well.
That's a brief history of my spiritual development.
