What made you become an atheist?

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If my kid wrote a story as sick and twisted as those religious texts, sure, I'd bring the kid to therapy or a mental hospitial depending on how demented they may be, you're going to sit there and say you'd do nothing about it?

Yes. Such a story is no reason to bring anyone to a mental hospital or to put someone through therapy. I try to leave those facilities open to those who actually need them... which does not include people who write a story that I don't think is proper for them to have written.

Not that I find anything remotely deplorable about writing anything from war, to religion, to erotica. I would not sit there and do nothing: I would assist in the editing process and see what they can do with it from there.

If it's just a kid being a kid and he's not serious or the made up god-story isnt that sick, no biggie, but if the kid generally believes that they heard voices in his head and went schizo or formed some another mental illness from religion (which happens a lot) or the kid thought human/animal sacrifice was ok, women can be honor raped in the right context, and human slavery is ok etc... then it's time for the kid to get a wake up call and get some help.

Nobody forms a mental illness from religion. Most of the atheists/agnostics/deists here were religious at one point, and are quite rational people now that they know better.

I can show my children images and videos and stories that will change their minds if they think rape is ever okay, or sacrifice is ever okay, or slavery is ever okay. The only wake up call I will ever give anyone is truth, and the truth is that rape is horrible, as is slavery, and sacrificing the unwilling is simply murder.

As their parent: there is probably nobody better to help them than myself... and most of the people who are cost exorbitant fees to see.

Ok, you find this stuff normal because you made up gods with your friends and it was probably harmless.. but this goes beyond storytelling and you should know that.

I find this stuff normal because I've been around many children, teenagers, and adults. I find nothing to contradict that you have outlined but normal human behavior.