I was lucky enough to never really buy into it. But I was sheltered enough that I didn't really know what to call myself until I started reading books in college. If you had asked me as a 14 year old what religion I was, I would have begrudgingly said Christian. But in reality, I was not buying it even a little.
So putting a label on it was liberating. Realizing that atheist was just a term describing something, it didn't mean I was a terrible person or church-bomber or something like that. Also, reading books that eloquently explained what I had been thinking for years without being able to put words to it was also something I desperately needed. I'd recommend the same.
So putting a label on it was liberating. Realizing that atheist was just a term describing something, it didn't mean I was a terrible person or church-bomber or something like that. Also, reading books that eloquently explained what I had been thinking for years without being able to put words to it was also something I desperately needed. I'd recommend the same.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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