Like a lot of you, I've never known a time when I wasn't a nonbeliever. My parents brought me up to know my own mind and expand my learning, particularly in my interest in astronomy; which means I look out and see the grandeur of the Universe... never the heavens. Growing up in the 70s helped considerably, I'm sure - the likes of real Doctor Who and The Goodies offered a rich and fertile playground for my imagination to examine no end of concepts.
It's only in the last decade or so, after I got my grubby little paws on the internet, that I've 'come out' officially as atheist.
No, I've never been taken in by any god bollocks, even when the world had meaning. I'm fucked if I'm going to start now.
It's only in the last decade or so, after I got my grubby little paws on the internet, that I've 'come out' officially as atheist.
No, I've never been taken in by any god bollocks, even when the world had meaning. I'm fucked if I'm going to start now.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
