Oh, it doesn't matter if you were a believer in the past. As soon as you lable yourself atheist, suddenly you have forgotten all you've ever read in the bible or just don't understand it anymore. Nope, you need Christian Goggles™ in order to be able to read it. Or at least that's the message I've gotten from christians, even though I try to explain to them that I too was a believer. For me it was the absurdity of the bible that got me to wonder what the hell christianity was about, so the concept doesn't seem so foreign to me. 
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
