(November 20, 2019 at 10:15 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: So, my question isn't weather your conclusion changed as you got older, since most of you stayed atheist. Rather, I'm wondering if the reasons for that conclusion have changed and grown since that point? Looking back, do you feel that your reasoning was correct or incorrect?
For me, I've grown. My doubting started from reading and noticing a small inconsistency in the Bible (the 2 versions of The 10 Commandments), which I couldn't ignore, and it got the ball rolling, so to speak. It hasn't change the conclusions I first came across.
I think my reasoning was correct; why would God need 2 versions of The 10 Commandments? This just opened the door to a whole slew of inconsistencies, contradictions and just plain immorality in the Bible that I had a blind spot for before.
I didn't read any atheist book until I was around 23 or 24, which of the first was "Atheism: The Case Against God" by George H. Smith. The other books were "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, "Atheist Universe" by David Mills and "Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris (I didn't read the precursor to that book though), but that was somewhat later. But the first book I read was at that point just preaching to the choir kinda of thing. Still haven't read Christopher Hitchens' "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" or Daniel Dennett's "Breaking the Spell".
