There's something I was reminded about which, while it probably didn't kickstart my atheism per se, I can definitely consider a stepping stone. When I was younger, my dad told me a little anecdote from when he himself was a boy in the fifties. Basically, his headmaster called the whole school together for assembly as usual, and towards the end wanted everyone to ask their parents to donate money, to fund a holiday for the local vicar and his wife.
As he walked home, my dad mulled this over and came to the realisation that "hang on - my mum and dad have never even been able to afford their own holiday. Why should they have to pay for someone with a well-paid job to have one?"
So he didn't. I've no idea if the vicar got his holiday.
As he walked home, my dad mulled this over and came to the realisation that "hang on - my mum and dad have never even been able to afford their own holiday. Why should they have to pay for someone with a well-paid job to have one?"
So he didn't. I've no idea if the vicar got his holiday.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
