Ex Theists

[Edwardo Piet]

I have never really been a 'theist'. If I ever believed as a kid it was extremely vague and I can't even remember, was never any religion in particular, so at most I guess it may have been some personal kind of 'deism' or something I don't know, I can't remember. When I was about 8 or 9 and I saw a program about evoluition of TV I personally saw no reason to believe in God at all, because I only ever perhaps felt I might have needed him for an explanation for nature. I always thought the whole 'man in the sky' thing was ridiculous, except perhaps when I was so young I couldn't even think for myself fully - in which case I don't think that even counts. Just as Dawkins says, there's no such thing as a Christian child, only a child of Christian parents, etc, etc. And my parents weren't exactly Christian either.

Oh yeah, no one cares what I think.
-Pip

Oh really? You sure of that? Can you read my mind? (And others who might possibly care)

EvF

EDIT:

I don't know where to vote. I was a theist in the same sense that I was a santa-clausist for my early years but never to any serious extent and I was only a child, I didn't know! Sod it, I'll go with theism, having been raised in a christian primary/elementary school.

Oh, good way to put it with the 'Santa-clausist' point Luke. That's exactly how I was about God too when I was too young to believe. Was hard for me to phrase it without sounding like a full on 'believer'.

I also was never serious as I was only a child, but I put 'always been an atheist' because as I said, not really any such thing as a theist child, only a child of theist parents. And my parents weren't even theists, they were kind of 'unsure' or whatever.

And however much I ever believed when I was too little to know what I was believing, however much of the whole 'Christianity' story I believed...I was still never really big on the whole 'Jesusy' thing lol. If anything it was this kind of vague 'God' thing, and bullshit from the bible. I don't know whether I even knew that the bible was even meant to be taken seriously.

EvF