There was already a thread on this subject.... and I guess more than that... but heck, here's my take on the story.
Major detail missing below: this all takes place in a typically catholic country in the south west of Europe and it's not Spain!
In short: something tells me there might not be any god anywhere.... some parts of your holy book are wrong, I wonder what other parts are also wrong?.... damn, I'm not the only one thinking this, whew!.... gods are made up, can't you see it?!
Major detail missing below: this all takes place in a typically catholic country in the south west of Europe and it's not Spain!
(September 10, 2012 at 6:01 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Well, "origin story" time.That's about it. I then came up with some reason to why people do believe, in skydaddies. As you'd guess, it involves the cult of the dead, the desire to not become dead, the need to explain mysteries of the world: life, sun, moon, where we come from and, for some strange reason, the why are we here.
My parents didn't care much for religion... however, they got married in a church, baptized me and my brother before we were one year old and never said anything bad about religion. Bottom line, I rarely went to church. And when I did, it was with my grandmother.
So, there I was thinking that everyone around me was a believer, even if they didn't practice it.
I mean really everyone!
I was 10, circa 1990.
I was listening to the news on the radio and they claimed there were images of some awesome event in some town lost in the midst of China.
I thought: damn, they have cameras everywhere nowadays.
And then came the 'ping', wait a minute: what else is also everywhere? They say god is.
How come god and cameras never met?
Damn, one of them must be wrong and cameras are not the one.
Shit... how come no one ever realized this?!
Keep quiet.
And I kept quiet for about a year, then I told my brother. He didn't think much of it... he was 9.
Then I learned about evolution... and there came about another rift: either evolution or genesis is wrong and it's not evolution!
Eventually, I learned there was a name for people who didn't believe: atheist. Oh, if there's a name for it, there's more people like me! yiipee!
Then, in some tv show, some guy casually said that roughly 20% of the world's population is atheist.
I was like: WOWWW.
Hey everyone, I'm atheist!
In short: something tells me there might not be any god anywhere.... some parts of your holy book are wrong, I wonder what other parts are also wrong?.... damn, I'm not the only one thinking this, whew!.... gods are made up, can't you see it?!
