I've spent almost all of My life trying to figure religion out. I never considered Christianity interesting enough to give it a serious go (although I had received infant baptism and was nominally Christian), but when I found out about the Greek gods I fell in love with the polytheist way of seeing things. There was never a time, though, when I possessed actual religious faith. Apparently My brain has an automatic "Yeah, right..." generator that slaps sense into whatever neurons are trying to believe in unlikely things.
It all came to a head about 7-8 years ago, when I still identified as an agnostic theist. I asked the question "Would I actually testify in a court of law that {name of god} was real?" The answer was an unequivocal "No," and on that day I flipped from an uneasy 3.4 on the Dawkins scale to 6.999... and stayed there.
It came as a tremendous relief to land in a worldview that wasn't embarrassing the shit out of the skeptical part of My brain.
It all came to a head about 7-8 years ago, when I still identified as an agnostic theist. I asked the question "Would I actually testify in a court of law that {name of god} was real?" The answer was an unequivocal "No," and on that day I flipped from an uneasy 3.4 on the Dawkins scale to 6.999... and stayed there.
It came as a tremendous relief to land in a worldview that wasn't embarrassing the shit out of the skeptical part of My brain.
