I actually do not even remember how I found this place. I had not been far from my "disinterested agnostic" phase but for a few months before I came here.
If I had come around here ten years ago or so (and I know that would not have strictly been possible), I would have been alongside the likes of Drich and company. Though, I imagine the beatdowns I would have received, and the ones I would have watched them receive, would have turned me around more quickly than it happened on its own. It would have really not taken much more than seeing one of them talk about how children deserve to be skewered and slaughtered and enslaved because God gave the order. That kind of thing was a major blind spot for me, but then again, I was never really much for the Bible even when I thought I believed what it said. For instance, I was never a Genesis literalist. To interpret Genesis literally would be to admit that the whole thing was obviously wrong. I now realize that one must make excuses for not taking it literally.
If I had come around here ten years ago or so (and I know that would not have strictly been possible), I would have been alongside the likes of Drich and company. Though, I imagine the beatdowns I would have received, and the ones I would have watched them receive, would have turned me around more quickly than it happened on its own. It would have really not taken much more than seeing one of them talk about how children deserve to be skewered and slaughtered and enslaved because God gave the order. That kind of thing was a major blind spot for me, but then again, I was never really much for the Bible even when I thought I believed what it said. For instance, I was never a Genesis literalist. To interpret Genesis literally would be to admit that the whole thing was obviously wrong. I now realize that one must make excuses for not taking it literally.
