I was raised Catholic but the atheist seed was planted while I was waiting in a bookstore to meet someone I met online. While waiting, I picked up the book "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and decided to buy it.
The date was excruciatingly bad but at least I left the bookstore with a good book. The foreword is by Christopher Hitchens and that was the first time I heard of him. It sent me down a rabbit hole and I read some of his books...and after thinking that if Ali could stand up to religious zealots even after a death threat against her was stabbed into a murdered man's body - I don't have much to fear either- and here I am.
The date was excruciatingly bad but at least I left the bookstore with a good book. The foreword is by Christopher Hitchens and that was the first time I heard of him. It sent me down a rabbit hole and I read some of his books...and after thinking that if Ali could stand up to religious zealots even after a death threat against her was stabbed into a murdered man's body - I don't have much to fear either- and here I am.

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