(April 1, 2012 at 8:42 pm)Blanca Wrote: wow a lot more long-time atheists then I expected. Seems like a lot of people on here figured it out when they were really young. There's a lot of exe catholics.
Took me a bit longer. I was 35 when I became an atheist in June of 1998. Catholic, baptist, methodist, baptist, non-denominational, back to catholic, then about five years of looking for answers. Oddly enough, once I became an atheist, I was not plagued by thoughts of hellfire and such - all such nonsense fell to the wayside in one big heap. That's not to say I escaped scot-free - it took a bit of work to undo the mental and emotional damage and I will always carry the scars.
Religion is not the answer-it is the problem. Everything considered, we would be better off without it.~Baubles of Blasphemy~Edwin F. Kagin
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist
