(February 20, 2012 at 4:23 pm)NoMoreFaith Wrote: I wish I had some deep involved insight on this question. I really do.Yeah, that.
I never subscribed to the religious views I was exposed to, but I suspected a deeper meaning to it all, and perhaps a deity that is the source of the bastardised versions man created.
Once I realised "I Don't Know" is a valid answer, and it rapidly disappated any views in deism. So I suppose I was a deist until I realised that I don't need to know why, but instead came to the conclusion that the invention of supernatural agency to explain something does not make it valid.
I was raised by a very religious southern baptist woman, but I didn't receive any formal education in religion beyond "this is what we say before bed." No church, no Sunday school, etc. So my religious exposure was fairly limited, but what I was exposed to, didn't really add up for me. The older I got, the harder I had to make myself believe in god, and by the time I was 14 I'd decided I was most definitely atheist.
