RE: What Religion, If Any, Were You Before You Became An Atheist?
February 3, 2011 at 1:45 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2011 at 2:00 pm by DeistPaladin.)
I was a Reaganian.
There was a time when I wanted to see Reagan's face carved onto Mount Rushmore. I believed in weird things like "trickle down" economics. I read sacred scripture like "Atlas Shrugged" and thought it was economics gold. I look back on the strange things I used to believe and wonder what I was thinking.
Like a lot of people who lost their faith, my transition was gradual. I went from conservative Republican to libertarian to "moderate libertarian" to what I am today.
Some other articles of faith I used to hold:
"You don't need to worry about how tax cuts will be paid for. The economic growth they will generate will eventually create the government revenue to compensate for the current shortfall."
"Another reason not to worry about how tax cuts will be paid for is we can simply cut spending. After all, there's hundreds of billions of dollars of waste that the federal government can simply cut out of its budget without touching what's allocated to defense."
"Poor people are just lazy. That's why they're poor."
Oddly enough, many people still believe these crazy things. You'd think after 30 years of trying a failed policy, people would realize you're not going to get a different result.
There was a time when I wanted to see Reagan's face carved onto Mount Rushmore. I believed in weird things like "trickle down" economics. I read sacred scripture like "Atlas Shrugged" and thought it was economics gold. I look back on the strange things I used to believe and wonder what I was thinking.
Like a lot of people who lost their faith, my transition was gradual. I went from conservative Republican to libertarian to "moderate libertarian" to what I am today.
Some other articles of faith I used to hold:
"You don't need to worry about how tax cuts will be paid for. The economic growth they will generate will eventually create the government revenue to compensate for the current shortfall."
"Another reason not to worry about how tax cuts will be paid for is we can simply cut spending. After all, there's hundreds of billions of dollars of waste that the federal government can simply cut out of its budget without touching what's allocated to defense."
"Poor people are just lazy. That's why they're poor."
Oddly enough, many people still believe these crazy things. You'd think after 30 years of trying a failed policy, people would realize you're not going to get a different result.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
