This question is asked a lot on this forum but I'll just have to try and find new inventive ways of answering it because I do like answering this question.
I'll try as best as I can to recollect from memory the major points when I was a very young child christian. Major points where I thought something along the lines of "Hmmmm that's odd." Leading me to eventually believe god doesn't exist.
I took the bible we were learning very literally and I remember being confused that no one seemed to be learning the lessons from the bible. No one I knew gave much to the poor, people in church made fun of the poor, they'd all try and dress better than one another. Showing what I'd consider to be vanity and contempt for anyone who looked slightly scruffy.
Christian kids in my school would have bitter arguments over who was closer to God. I just never got any notion of clean cut morality involving being nice to people, it was more like a fake morality of "I'm nicer/holier than thou, so I'll look down my nose at these other people."
This was noticable around the age of 7.
Secondly, I know there's probably Christians who have their apologetic arguments for Adam and Eve coinciding with dinosaurs, but we were just taught two contradictory accounts of what the world was like with no explanation given.
Not that I give any credit to Christian explanations as to what the bible says and how that relates to scientific explanations of the formation of the world, I'm just saying that we weren't even taught any sophisticated Christian explanations.
We were simply taught there were dinosaurs and other strange beasts millions of years ago before man, and also god made everything in a few days including man.
This was around the age of 10.
And then I was in my teenage years and in secondary school where it was even more obvious to me how many religions there were, how history is full of empires using religion as a political tool, the very sketchy evidence for Christianity.
And to add to all this the questions I was asking when I was 10 about dinosaurs still weren't be answered which definitely set alarm bells going.
I've only spent a brief period in my life interested in media dedicated to atheism. People like Dawkins and Hitchens and so on.
But I always seem to have had a tendency to gravitate towards a fair emount of media that would involve atheism and mocking/casting doubt on religion/God.
The list of things is endless but to name a few that I remember from my younger years, Metallica, The Simpsons, Motorhead, Civilisation the computer game.
I'll try as best as I can to recollect from memory the major points when I was a very young child christian. Major points where I thought something along the lines of "Hmmmm that's odd." Leading me to eventually believe god doesn't exist.
I took the bible we were learning very literally and I remember being confused that no one seemed to be learning the lessons from the bible. No one I knew gave much to the poor, people in church made fun of the poor, they'd all try and dress better than one another. Showing what I'd consider to be vanity and contempt for anyone who looked slightly scruffy.
Christian kids in my school would have bitter arguments over who was closer to God. I just never got any notion of clean cut morality involving being nice to people, it was more like a fake morality of "I'm nicer/holier than thou, so I'll look down my nose at these other people."
This was noticable around the age of 7.
Secondly, I know there's probably Christians who have their apologetic arguments for Adam and Eve coinciding with dinosaurs, but we were just taught two contradictory accounts of what the world was like with no explanation given.
Not that I give any credit to Christian explanations as to what the bible says and how that relates to scientific explanations of the formation of the world, I'm just saying that we weren't even taught any sophisticated Christian explanations.
We were simply taught there were dinosaurs and other strange beasts millions of years ago before man, and also god made everything in a few days including man.
This was around the age of 10.
And then I was in my teenage years and in secondary school where it was even more obvious to me how many religions there were, how history is full of empires using religion as a political tool, the very sketchy evidence for Christianity.
And to add to all this the questions I was asking when I was 10 about dinosaurs still weren't be answered which definitely set alarm bells going.
I've only spent a brief period in my life interested in media dedicated to atheism. People like Dawkins and Hitchens and so on.
But I always seem to have had a tendency to gravitate towards a fair emount of media that would involve atheism and mocking/casting doubt on religion/God.
The list of things is endless but to name a few that I remember from my younger years, Metallica, The Simpsons, Motorhead, Civilisation the computer game.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
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