(July 26, 2013 at 10:57 pm)Nightfoot92 Wrote: What can I say, I was indoctrinated as a child. It takes something out of the ordinary to make me question something. Ever since then, I have made it my job to seek answers at every corner, to question every single doctrine, belief, and ideology know to man. As I said before, i always knew that something was off there, that something was wrong. But when you are taught not to question it, you don't. The loss of my sisters friend was merely a catalyst for my transformation into atheism. Cause and effect.
So, you were already questioning things at that point? Do you believe then that it was simply inevitable that you would discard Christianity?
That would make it easier for me, because I feel extreme guilt when I find ways to benefit from a tragedy. I know I shouldn't, because that's how we cope. But I do anyway.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
