RE: Has atheism made you different?
April 22, 2013 at 7:07 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2013 at 7:07 pm by pocaracas.)
You claim there is a celestial teapot. I do not believe your claim.
It then follows I do not believe there is such a teapot.... but this comes as an afterthought.
Humans believe (or not) in claims.
We tend to believe in those we find to be trustworthy. And tend not to believe in untrusted people.
When we are born, the most trustworthy people are our parents, we believe anything they say..... and the process of indoctrination begins... the process responsible for over 90% of all believers in deities.
Has atheism made me different? I stumbled on it when I was 10, before that I was a 10 year old boy who went to school and had divorced parents who didn't particularly care about church and praying. After that, I was the same 10 year old boy who thought everyone in the world was under the wrong impression. Then I came to know I wasn't the only nut out of the sack (there was even a name for these people - atheist) so I stopped bothering and became open about it... whenever asked. Did I change? outwardly, no. Inwardly, not much... very little, almost nothing... heck... what was there to change? After watching the Nightmare on Elm Street at the age of 8 and getting quite scared by it, my brain must have developed some Bullshit detector that enabled me to handle the scary situation.... after that, everything on tv became interpreted as completely fictional.... I would still enjoy documentaries, of course, but no bullshit was allowed... I guess seeing the christian god as another fictional character came naturally after that.
I now think Freddy Krueger's lines are hilarious... go figure!
It then follows I do not believe there is such a teapot.... but this comes as an afterthought.
Humans believe (or not) in claims.
We tend to believe in those we find to be trustworthy. And tend not to believe in untrusted people.
When we are born, the most trustworthy people are our parents, we believe anything they say..... and the process of indoctrination begins... the process responsible for over 90% of all believers in deities.
Has atheism made me different? I stumbled on it when I was 10, before that I was a 10 year old boy who went to school and had divorced parents who didn't particularly care about church and praying. After that, I was the same 10 year old boy who thought everyone in the world was under the wrong impression. Then I came to know I wasn't the only nut out of the sack (there was even a name for these people - atheist) so I stopped bothering and became open about it... whenever asked. Did I change? outwardly, no. Inwardly, not much... very little, almost nothing... heck... what was there to change? After watching the Nightmare on Elm Street at the age of 8 and getting quite scared by it, my brain must have developed some Bullshit detector that enabled me to handle the scary situation.... after that, everything on tv became interpreted as completely fictional.... I would still enjoy documentaries, of course, but no bullshit was allowed... I guess seeing the christian god as another fictional character came naturally after that.
I now think Freddy Krueger's lines are hilarious... go figure!
