(January 4, 2017 at 3:48 pm)Stimbo Wrote: 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.
Heaven forbid he have to get a real job and earn it the legitimate way.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
