The Bible is the claim, not the evidence

[Godlesspanther]

Every person that rejects them has a different story, a different reason. Why did you reject them? Perhaps you grew up in a house that was non-religious and free-thinking to begin with?

My father was non religious but not Atheist. He was just not bothered in the slightest. Never went into a church apart from Hatch/Match/Despatch.

My Mother is into woo and always has been as far as I can remember and she got it from her grandmother.

I went to a Catholic School because it was the good school in the area. I was utterly non impressed and realised I was an Athiest at age 10. I went through a spell <da dish> of wiccan sympathising but it was probably more about the idea of naked girls dancing.

I became an Atheist Buddhist in my twenties. Atheist Buddhism rejects all supernatural aspects of buddhist culture but embraces Buddhist ethics. The idea of karma is replaced with the understanding that we are all connected and that actions have consequences, often unintended one.

Meditation is very important to us.

I am not sure what enlightenment actually is but I think interesting things come a a deep practice of meditation.

My parents are Unitarians. My mother was into woo for a while, but she doesn't believe that stuff anymore. My mother's mother was an apatheist -- she did not claim to know anything about the supernatural and she did not give a shit about it.

I have many friends who are atheist Buddhists. I'm just an atheist atheist. I do not meditate -- I know atheists who do and feel that it helps them, I just can't seem to do it -- or do it right -- or whatever.

Enlightenment for me is purely intellectual -- I do not have spiritual enlightenments.