It's not unreasonable to believe what you were raised to believe, which every adult important to you believes. I'm not an atheist because i'm smarter or saner than most theists, I'm an atheist because I got lucky. If everyone in my family had been of the same fundamentalist faith, if I had been raised in a less literalist religion, if I hadn't decided to read the Bible on my own; cover-to-cover, if I hadn't been exposed to diversity of belief in the military, if I hadn't started becoming skeptical of aliens, cryptids, and the paranormal...heck, if I hadn't taken some science and Logic and Intro to Religon in the same semester while finally finishing college in my thirties; I might still be a theist, maybe even a fundamentalist.
It might be easier now in the internet age to get there, but it took me about 20 years from first doubt to 'hey, I think I'm an atheist'. It could well have gone differently.
It might be easier now in the internet age to get there, but it took me about 20 years from first doubt to 'hey, I think I'm an atheist'. It could well have gone differently.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
