(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).
Yah, I realized I was an atheist in 1996. I did a little research, but it mainly just convinced me that the word 'atheist' was the correct word for my position. We did exist before the God Delusion came out. The internet made a big difference, I had knowingly met only two or three atheists when I was 42, started a group on Meetup and now I've met hundreds. The big change to me seems to be between 'we used to mostly keep it to ourselves' and 'now we announce it on Facebook and internet forums'.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
