(August 16, 2010 at 9:28 pm)DgyJff Wrote: Hi! I'm glad to have found this forum! I'm 22 and am from North Carolina, USA. I'm in school right now getting my master's in social work. I grew up Christian and went to a Presbyterian church every week. I never questioned it, but I also never "felt" Jesus in my life. I think I mostly just felt bored. I became agnostic when I went to college. In my first weeks as a freshman I went to church on my own free will and realized how ridiculous I felt standing there singing to god. Agnosticism lasted, oh, one year or so, but switching to atheism was a pretty obvious decision. I love it and feel so confident in it, yet can't bring myself to admit it to anyone in my real life. People WILL judge me, sentence me to hell, or preach non-stop to me, so I don't bring it up. So anyway, glad this forum exists so I have a place to feel normal!
If you're in the Greensboro area then check out GreensboroAtheists.com and click on "events" to be directed to the event page at meetup and join us for a meeting! If you're not near us then meetup likely has an atheist group in your area :-)
