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What made you become an atheist?
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RE: What made you become an atheist?
Whenever I tested a notion that seemed unlikely, such as the idea someone besides a family member would know when and how to wait until I was asleep to come swap a tooth for a quarter, I had more faith in the outcome.  Plucking that tooth and laying it by in secret, I thought, I got y'all here.  No more bullshit.  That guess came true through a likely outcome.  I'm that good.

It wasn't the same when I tested a scientific notion, like gravity.  For my 5th birthday, an uncle gave me a Batman costume.  He thought I'd be lit by it.  I was. And he thought it would make a great picture.  It did.  But he didn't know I'd climb the antenna pole onto the roof, looking for a good spot to jump.  You wear a cape, you fly.  Right?  But I'd fallen before and knew falling could mess me up.  So I found the corner of the roof closest to the ground and jumped there.  I leapt out, gripping the cape wide, and thought oh shit.  Get ready to hit.  The ground knocked my breath out.  I crawled under the eave and hunkered until I could stand and go in the house.  I'm that good.

Maybe if I really believed, if gravity be damned, I'm taking flight, was the only thought in my head, I would have done the seemingly impossible.  I would have beaten the odds and performed true magic.  From there, who knows what I would've done.  Cured cancer, ended starvation, told people to be nicer, made love to Raquel Welch.  Surely something noble.  I was such an idiot back then.
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What made you become an atheist? - by Atomic Lava - December 10, 2019 at 11:16 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Gawdzilla Sama - December 10, 2019 at 11:52 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by EgoDeath - December 10, 2019 at 11:58 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by zebo-the-fat - December 10, 2019 at 12:05 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Brian37 - December 10, 2019 at 12:23 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Atomic Lava - December 10, 2019 at 2:23 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 10, 2019 at 3:08 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by The Valkyrie - December 10, 2019 at 12:28 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Brian37 - December 10, 2019 at 12:43 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by CarveTheFive - December 10, 2019 at 12:44 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Gawdzilla Sama - December 10, 2019 at 12:49 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Fake Messiah - December 10, 2019 at 12:54 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Brian37 - December 10, 2019 at 12:58 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by CarveTheFive - December 10, 2019 at 12:54 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by The Valkyrie - December 10, 2019 at 12:58 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Brian37 - December 10, 2019 at 1:04 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by CarveTheFive - December 10, 2019 at 1:06 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Brian37 - December 10, 2019 at 1:20 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Gawdzilla Sama - December 10, 2019 at 1:19 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by CarveTheFive - December 10, 2019 at 1:25 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Brian37 - December 10, 2019 at 2:03 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Simon Moon - December 10, 2019 at 1:44 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by brewer - December 10, 2019 at 2:21 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by onlinebiker - December 10, 2019 at 2:41 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by downbeatplumb - December 10, 2019 at 2:53 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Succubus - December 10, 2019 at 2:56 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Atomic Lava - December 10, 2019 at 2:57 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Simon Moon - December 10, 2019 at 3:08 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Mr.wizard - December 10, 2019 at 7:42 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Atomic Lava - December 10, 2019 at 9:46 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Succubus - December 11, 2019 at 3:37 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Simon Moon - December 11, 2019 at 11:15 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Atomic Lava - December 11, 2019 at 5:43 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Abaddon_ire - December 11, 2019 at 6:12 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by downbeatplumb - December 11, 2019 at 1:52 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Succubus - December 11, 2019 at 2:34 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by downbeatplumb - December 11, 2019 at 2:39 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by no one - December 10, 2019 at 3:09 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Rahn127 - December 10, 2019 at 7:19 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Cecelia - December 10, 2019 at 7:47 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by CarveTheFive - December 10, 2019 at 8:11 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by The Valkyrie - December 10, 2019 at 8:20 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by CarveTheFive - December 10, 2019 at 8:34 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Cecelia - December 11, 2019 at 12:28 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Gwaithmir - December 10, 2019 at 8:21 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Athene - December 11, 2019 at 12:47 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Atomic Lava - December 11, 2019 at 2:00 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2019 at 4:29 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 11, 2019 at 11:45 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2019 at 4:20 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Abaddon_ire - December 11, 2019 at 5:31 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by zebo-the-fat - December 11, 2019 at 6:25 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Atomic Lava - December 11, 2019 at 6:26 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Abaddon_ire - December 11, 2019 at 6:34 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 12, 2019 at 6:06 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Peebo-Thuhlu - December 12, 2019 at 6:18 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 12, 2019 at 6:40 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Ranjr - December 11, 2019 at 6:46 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Abaddon_ire - December 11, 2019 at 6:50 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 11, 2019 at 6:51 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Ranjr - December 12, 2019 at 2:18 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by BrokenQuill92 - December 12, 2019 at 2:26 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Rahn127 - December 12, 2019 at 5:24 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Gawdzilla Sama - December 12, 2019 at 10:32 am
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Rahn127 - December 12, 2019 at 2:18 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by zebo-the-fat - December 12, 2019 at 2:56 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 12, 2019 at 2:27 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by Alex K - December 12, 2019 at 7:09 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by The Valkyrie - December 12, 2019 at 7:12 pm
RE: What made you become an atheist? - by The Valkyrie - December 12, 2019 at 7:16 pm

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