RE: How many years have you been an atheist?
April 2, 2012 at 1:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2012 at 1:38 am by BoyWonder.)
Formal Calvinist public school education until the age of 17 because that was expected in my social stratum, but my parents were really atheists and never ever went to church again after having the first 3 of their 4 children formally baptized in the fifties. They didn't even bother with the last one anymore.
Engaged in (a)theist debates with 'learned' vicars and ministers, and increasingly whipped their pious asses with simple logic from age 13 (my classmates loved me for preoccupying the teachers and redirecting their attention
). Lost all respect for authority as a result.
Had I known about the church' institutionalized mass abuse of children I would have attacked them physically (and no doubt ended in jail).
Studied Islam and the Qur'An for 4 years in the nineties out of pure curiosity and for comparative purposes (which is more than 98% of Muslims can say).
How come this 'poll' tops out at 21+ years of being an atheist? I've been one for 50+ years!
Is it inconceivable that any Americans were atheists before the eighties?
Engaged in (a)theist debates with 'learned' vicars and ministers, and increasingly whipped their pious asses with simple logic from age 13 (my classmates loved me for preoccupying the teachers and redirecting their attention
). Lost all respect for authority as a result.Had I known about the church' institutionalized mass abuse of children I would have attacked them physically (and no doubt ended in jail).
Studied Islam and the Qur'An for 4 years in the nineties out of pure curiosity and for comparative purposes (which is more than 98% of Muslims can say).
How come this 'poll' tops out at 21+ years of being an atheist? I've been one for 50+ years!
Is it inconceivable that any Americans were atheists before the eighties?
