What's up from OHIO!
February 28, 2015 at 5:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2015 at 5:20 pm by Delysid.)
What's up everyone? Just figured I would make an intro thread here, that's usually the S.O.P. for joining a new forum. I guess it gives those who care a chance to introduce themselves to me as I introduce myself. So a little about me... I'll keep it short.
I grew up in a semi-religious household. My mom and grandma are Catholic and Protestant respectively. They really only talked about god when I asked them about god. They sort of always just believed what they believed and never really pushed it on me TOO MUCH, aside from making me take my first communion or whatever the hell it is, and making me take Public School Religious classes. And I think those things were more out of tradition than an actual attempt to instill some sort of religious belief in me, as weird as that sounds.
My grandfather is more of a deist, he thinks the Bible is a load of BS. He thinks there is "something up there" but does not really know what that something is, and even admits he can't know for sure that there even is anything.
My dad was the one who really pushed it on me. And him being a complete hypocritical alcoholic, drug addict, racist bigot but somehow still a good Christian pushed me away from religion more than anything. Believe it or not, even as a young child I picked up on this blatant hypocrisy. Kids are not stupid, you know.
I suppose I wish I could say I grew up in a secular household, but that would be pretty far from the truth. Though I certainly did not grow up in a Westboro Baptist church type of of home either, and hey, thank god for that.
When I finally came out as an atheist, my grandparents honestly couldn't have cared less, my mom was slightly disappointed and my dad assured me that I was going down the wrong path, which was funny. I always had doubts about god, even when I was about 5 years old I remember thinking that I was only talking to myself when I prayed. I then went through a stage when I was a little older that I believed in god a little more, out of fear more than anything, thanks to my father's doing.
Then around 14 I realized that I did not agree with the Christian version of what god was, and I think I was sort of teetering on agnosticism at that point. I went back and forth between being agnostic and a deist for a while until finally around 18 I became completely sure that I was an atheist.
So now being an atheist is something that is important to me. I love discussing atheism and religion and how it affects our society and the individuals in it. I love a healthy religious debate and the type of deep-thinking it can inspire in somebody. I don't ever expect to "convert" anyone, but even to get someone to question something small about what they believe or to get someone to even consider a point I have made is a beautiful thing. I hope to live in an atheist world one day. I'm a firm supporter of people being able to believe in whatever they wish. But I just hope one day people will see religion for what it is, an obsolete operating system. An outdated way of attempting to understand the world. And sure, humans will always find something to fight and kill over, but without religion in the picture, that's one less excuse we'll have to act like assholes. I hope I kept this short. Oops.
-Delysid
I grew up in a semi-religious household. My mom and grandma are Catholic and Protestant respectively. They really only talked about god when I asked them about god. They sort of always just believed what they believed and never really pushed it on me TOO MUCH, aside from making me take my first communion or whatever the hell it is, and making me take Public School Religious classes. And I think those things were more out of tradition than an actual attempt to instill some sort of religious belief in me, as weird as that sounds.
My grandfather is more of a deist, he thinks the Bible is a load of BS. He thinks there is "something up there" but does not really know what that something is, and even admits he can't know for sure that there even is anything.
My dad was the one who really pushed it on me. And him being a complete hypocritical alcoholic, drug addict, racist bigot but somehow still a good Christian pushed me away from religion more than anything. Believe it or not, even as a young child I picked up on this blatant hypocrisy. Kids are not stupid, you know.
I suppose I wish I could say I grew up in a secular household, but that would be pretty far from the truth. Though I certainly did not grow up in a Westboro Baptist church type of of home either, and hey, thank god for that.
When I finally came out as an atheist, my grandparents honestly couldn't have cared less, my mom was slightly disappointed and my dad assured me that I was going down the wrong path, which was funny. I always had doubts about god, even when I was about 5 years old I remember thinking that I was only talking to myself when I prayed. I then went through a stage when I was a little older that I believed in god a little more, out of fear more than anything, thanks to my father's doing.
Then around 14 I realized that I did not agree with the Christian version of what god was, and I think I was sort of teetering on agnosticism at that point. I went back and forth between being agnostic and a deist for a while until finally around 18 I became completely sure that I was an atheist.
So now being an atheist is something that is important to me. I love discussing atheism and religion and how it affects our society and the individuals in it. I love a healthy religious debate and the type of deep-thinking it can inspire in somebody. I don't ever expect to "convert" anyone, but even to get someone to question something small about what they believe or to get someone to even consider a point I have made is a beautiful thing. I hope to live in an atheist world one day. I'm a firm supporter of people being able to believe in whatever they wish. But I just hope one day people will see religion for what it is, an obsolete operating system. An outdated way of attempting to understand the world. And sure, humans will always find something to fight and kill over, but without religion in the picture, that's one less excuse we'll have to act like assholes. I hope I kept this short. Oops.
-Delysid
