Mornin'
I'm Alex, I'm sure I'll be pleased to meet you all.
I'm a political activist from the UK, and I'm currently studying (well, I should currently be studying) in school. But, you see, I'm a pupil at a Catholic school and so things aren't exactly excellent. However, I am attempting to move to a non-religious school.
I suppose I should talk about what I believe and how I came to believe what I do. I shall try and keep it short, if you want to know more then feel free to ask.
I've always been taught that God existed, and at first I accepted what I was told as the truth. But a year or so later (when I was around 8) I couldn't see the sense in religion. To me, the world worked perfectly fine without a divine being, God just overcomplicated things and forced me to sit through really long and boring church services. I didn't weigh up the different arguments supporting and opposing religion and god (I was a little too young to), I just chose to think for myself and decided that a world without a god made far more sense to me than a world with a god. I think I decided to identify as an atheist at the age of 11.
The things I learnt in the following years just backed up this initial decision. I saw Christians denying themselves pleasures in life for something they hoped existed when they died, and I hated it. People were trying to make me do downright silly things all in the name of some false idol, and I just wanted to be free from it. Then I started questioning my sexuality, and I was subject to slander just because I was attracted to members of the same sex. I couldn't help it - and surely it's worse to deny yourself and instead everything because of something that isn't even there. I also learnt a bit about evolution, which seemed far more logical to me than creation.
After that I didn't put up with religion anymore. Every week when I should've been in church at school, I went to a wooded area next to the school and smoked. I'd go into school (a lot of the times rather high
) and argue in religious education classes. I got into trouble for it, but I don't care.
So yeah, that summary was longer than I'd initially intended, but I can't be bothered going back to edit. I'd say I'm an atheist, and maybe there's a smidge of nihilism thrown in there for good measure.
Again, feel free to ask whatever you like, I'll try to answer.
I'm Alex, I'm sure I'll be pleased to meet you all.
I'm a political activist from the UK, and I'm currently studying (well, I should currently be studying) in school. But, you see, I'm a pupil at a Catholic school and so things aren't exactly excellent. However, I am attempting to move to a non-religious school.
I suppose I should talk about what I believe and how I came to believe what I do. I shall try and keep it short, if you want to know more then feel free to ask.
I've always been taught that God existed, and at first I accepted what I was told as the truth. But a year or so later (when I was around 8) I couldn't see the sense in religion. To me, the world worked perfectly fine without a divine being, God just overcomplicated things and forced me to sit through really long and boring church services. I didn't weigh up the different arguments supporting and opposing religion and god (I was a little too young to), I just chose to think for myself and decided that a world without a god made far more sense to me than a world with a god. I think I decided to identify as an atheist at the age of 11.
The things I learnt in the following years just backed up this initial decision. I saw Christians denying themselves pleasures in life for something they hoped existed when they died, and I hated it. People were trying to make me do downright silly things all in the name of some false idol, and I just wanted to be free from it. Then I started questioning my sexuality, and I was subject to slander just because I was attracted to members of the same sex. I couldn't help it - and surely it's worse to deny yourself and instead everything because of something that isn't even there. I also learnt a bit about evolution, which seemed far more logical to me than creation.
After that I didn't put up with religion anymore. Every week when I should've been in church at school, I went to a wooded area next to the school and smoked. I'd go into school (a lot of the times rather high
) and argue in religious education classes. I got into trouble for it, but I don't care.So yeah, that summary was longer than I'd initially intended, but I can't be bothered going back to edit. I'd say I'm an atheist, and maybe there's a smidge of nihilism thrown in there for good measure.
Again, feel free to ask whatever you like, I'll try to answer.
I thought I was the Nietschean superman, then I fell off my chair.
