I never had any exposure to Dawkins, Harris, etc until after I was deprogrammed already. However, RL atheists did affect me. Although my mother is very Catholic, and I even attended a private Catholic school for 7 years, my father was not a believer. My father would not call himself and atheist, but he is one. I had severe doubts and volumes of unanswered questions by the time I was 13 or 14, but likely I would have just settled in there, as a believer who struggled, if not for my father, and my husband, the latter is openly atheist, and comedian Julia Sweeney.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
