Hello All,
May 30, 2014 at 8:45 am
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2014 at 9:01 am by CherishSin.)
Hi,
I'm Chris. An atheist from the UK.
I was brought up in a nominally Roman Catholic household. My mum believes but seemed to have stopped practising years prior to my birth. I was never baptised into the church down to being ill on the day I was booked in and my mum being too apathetic about the whole thing to re book.
I attended Roman Catholic primary school but down to not being baptised was unable to take part in the preparations for "First Holy Communion" with the other children and as such had an hour a week more maths tuition than the other kids, which because of the interests of the tutor sometimes this spilled into electronics and technical drawing.
I attended a Church of England Grammar School where most of my peer group, like myself, had difficulty believing in a divine being and it was here at the age of thirteen that I first learned that I was an atheist, prior to this age, the only term I had for myself was "Heathen" as hatefully spat from the mouth of my grandmother when I told her I didn't believe.
I investigated the gamut of pagan faiths in my early twenties, I guess I didn't want to write them off just because I'd written off Christianity. I wrote them off pretty quickly though.
Anyhow. I am the author of <snip>
Glad to meet you all.
I'm Chris. An atheist from the UK.
I was brought up in a nominally Roman Catholic household. My mum believes but seemed to have stopped practising years prior to my birth. I was never baptised into the church down to being ill on the day I was booked in and my mum being too apathetic about the whole thing to re book.
I attended Roman Catholic primary school but down to not being baptised was unable to take part in the preparations for "First Holy Communion" with the other children and as such had an hour a week more maths tuition than the other kids, which because of the interests of the tutor sometimes this spilled into electronics and technical drawing.
I attended a Church of England Grammar School where most of my peer group, like myself, had difficulty believing in a divine being and it was here at the age of thirteen that I first learned that I was an atheist, prior to this age, the only term I had for myself was "Heathen" as hatefully spat from the mouth of my grandmother when I told her I didn't believe.
I investigated the gamut of pagan faiths in my early twenties, I guess I didn't want to write them off just because I'd written off Christianity. I wrote them off pretty quickly though.
Anyhow. I am the author of <snip>
Glad to meet you all.
