(July 24, 2018 at 3:23 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: Atheists: If you were born and raised in a society where literally everyone else was theist, and there was no atheistic material available in the libraries or on the internet, would you still be an atheist today? Phrased differently, could you possibly have "discovered" atheism all by yourself?
My answer is probably not. Prominent atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris played a big role in me becoming an atheist. So I guess we ought to be indebted to other atheists (past or present).
I came to atheism on my own, specifically because religion makes no sense to me. Even as a child, I went through the motions. I wanted to believe, but my intellectual honesty prohibited me from actually believing.
I've never read Dawkins or Harris or any other source of atheist literature.
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
