(March 13, 2014 at 2:27 pm)Beccs Wrote: Former Catholic here.
I think the first spark was that I have an atheist father who would let my mother take my brother and myself to church, but wouldn't let her force it in the home or get us confirmed until we were old enough to make up our own minds.
Church taught me to believe, my father, a GP, taught me to think and rationalise. Up until around the age of 10 or 11 I was one of those truly devout kids.
At the age of 13 I did what so many former theists did, I read the bible thoroughly, several times, and decided it was nonsense.
As an aside, my brother recently became an atheist and, apparently, according to my mother, that's my fault!
That sounds familiar. God taught Adam and Eve to believe. The snake taught them to think.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
