RE: Why are you an atheist?
January 4, 2018 at 8:34 am
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2018 at 8:34 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 25, 2008 at 3:30 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I was a Christian for the first 11 years of my life, but it was something I was forced into by my parents and school etc. It was when I moved to secondary school (at age 11) that I started to doubt God and religion. There are just too many religions out there with completely different beliefs, it is impossible to know for sure which is "correct". I became unsure of what I did believe, but later realized that I literally couldn't believe that any form of God existed. You only have to take a look at the world to realize that.
No way you were a Christian!! But can I ask you this: from what I understand you and your wife are atheists, but let's say you have kids do you think your parents will put pressure on you to baptize them and perhaps even send them to Sunday school?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
