(May 19, 2016 at 10:27 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: Hi. Yeah I know, I'm late. Welcome.
Your intro here is shorter than it is sweet. I'd be interested in the unabridged tale if that's available. Did you ever post anything to the Convert's Corner thread?
Thanks! My story is simple -- brainwashed in my youth as an evangelical Christian fundamentalist, which I renounced while in high school due to evolutionary theory, and especially, higher Biblical criticism. Got married and converted to my wife's religion, Catholicism, for a time, but could not stand all the contradictions from one Pope/Council to another, eventually coming to the conclusion that Catholicism is just a man-made meme, like the rest. Having never found any of the theistic arguments for the EoG to be at all compelling and modern-day "miracle claims" being fraught with self-deception, overt deception, mental illness, group hysteria, and sometimes, outright fraud, I see no compelling reason to believe. So, no evidence for "god" means the default position, which for me, is the absence of belief, or "agnostic atheism". However, over the last year, I have come to appreciate the Argument from (Natural) Evil to be a compelling argument against the idea of "all-good, all-loving theistic god". I also like Dr. Michael Shermer's approach of the "null hypothesis" ("Whatever you believe to be true isn't; now go convince disinterested strangers that your null hypothesis is false") to the God question, again, leading to the "default" position of agnostic atheism.
