(February 10, 2015 at 12:29 pm)coolfunkDJ Wrote: I have a question for all you converted athiests...
How did you feel before you converted vs. after you converted?
I take issue with the word "converted" and the idea of "converting" to atheism. That's like asking me what my favorite sport to play is: I don't play any sport.
As for the spirit of the question, which I take to be along the lines of "how did you feel after you became/realized you were an atheist?"
I didn't feel any different. I wasn't a devout Christian by any stretch of the imagination, I had only been to church less than a handful of times, as religious as my family ever got was putting a nativity scene out as part of our Christmas decorations, so I was as minimally christian as it might be possible to be. Realizing that I didn't believe in any gods and that the idea of organized religion didn't make sense wasn't that earth shattering for me. I've described it before as thinking, "Hey, I'm an atheist. Hmm... don't I have math homework to do?"
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
