Dear ex-theists

[Alex K]

I was raised with a milquetoast kind of faith in God. I was encouraged to pray from time to time, and even have tried it, but never to any avail. What nailed it for me was thinking about humans as machines. I realized that the evidence says that our memories and personality are generated our brains, and that any notion of afterlife appeared absurd as a consequence. I'm not sure where i got the input, but hearing of cases of mental disability may have been the origin of this line of thought. With this bit gone, the whole god thing just went out of the window, the christian god anyways, and even if there was one, it would not affect me beyond my lifetime. I was about 13. By the time I underwent protestant confirmation and the two years of instruction that go with it, I was already a pretty dyed in the wool atheist.