RE: Just another (black) Atheist here
June 2, 2012 at 6:06 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2012 at 6:10 pm by Brian37.)
(May 21, 2011 at 12:00 am)Drkojiin Wrote: Hey, I became an atheist my first year of college and before that I was a Christian. I never could believe the stuff I heard in church, and when I tried to it was like trying to do the impossible. The Atheist Experience show was the key factor in turning me into an atheist along with my doubts. I love when Matt Dillahunty agrue with theist.
I am also black, people tell me black atheist are rare.
I am mainly on this site to make some atheist facebook friends and to read other atheist's post.
I am 20 years old, and live in altanta, Georgia.
You'll be happy to know that a black atheist is a big reason this white atheist is the reason I am an activist atheist now.
Back in the late 90s a white guy named Jake and a black guy named Reggie started the "Atheist Network" now defunct. But it's spinoffs still exist today in Reggie's site "Infidel Guy" and "Atheist Forums.com", not to be confused with this one which is dot.org.
Brian Sapient of "The Rational Responders" who was on a debate with Ray Comfort on ABC's Nighline got his start on Infidel Guy's website. Reggie "The Infidel Guy" was the first BLACK ATHEIST, and atheist in general to get a full hour on prime time TV by being on ABC's Wife Swap.
But long before that, even before I got on the net seeking other atheists, I was a very uneducated atheist in the closet. 9/11/01 kicked me into gear when I read an opinion by a Chicago nurse who was an atheist who got her opinion printed nation wide. At that point I got off my ass and the first site I joined was the one started by Reggie and Jake. Reggie later went on to create his "Infidel Guy" website, which right now is under reconstruction.
That black atheist has been a huge influence on me. And so is Neil Degrees Tyson, black atheist and astrophysicist who wrote "The Pluto Piles". Neil managed to get the planet Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet.
But in any case, regardless of race or national origin, the world needs more people who reject woo and are willing to test reality to insure the most accurate data.
Welcome. And FYI, if you go to Reginald Finely's Facebook page. I am quite sure he'd like to meet up with a fellow black atheis. He is from Atlanta too.
