I was brought up rabid working-class-bog-Irish-Catholic. Arguably the most pig ignorant,superstitious,bigoted and hateful form of a pernicious faith. I began seriously questioning at age 16 and read Aquinas..As a result I overcompensated and became an insufferable little prig*.
I left the Church at 20. The suddenness surprised me: I was conscripted. No longer had to go to church,so I didn't.Never went back.
I remained a theist for the next 20 years.Asking questions but receiving no answers. Reading,studying,searching,but finding nothing. Over time I became a skeptic,in the Greek sense of the word. My atheism is not a matter of choice,but an inescapable conclusion. Finding no proof for or falsification of the existence of God(s),my position became and remains "I don't believe'
*today I'm no longer an insufferable little prig; I'm a cranky old cunt.
I left the Church at 20. The suddenness surprised me: I was conscripted. No longer had to go to church,so I didn't.Never went back.
I remained a theist for the next 20 years.Asking questions but receiving no answers. Reading,studying,searching,but finding nothing. Over time I became a skeptic,in the Greek sense of the word. My atheism is not a matter of choice,but an inescapable conclusion. Finding no proof for or falsification of the existence of God(s),my position became and remains "I don't believe'
*today I'm no longer an insufferable little prig; I'm a cranky old cunt.
