RE: Questions for theists (and ex-theists, too)
April 21, 2015 at 6:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2015 at 6:38 pm by Pizza.)
I really never had a bad experience with religion and my moderate-conservative mother and grandmother never forced religion down my throat. We never went to church. I think grandmother was Brethren but stopped going to church because of snobbery in the church culture. I remember mom reading kids Bible stories to me and I watched some Christian children's VHS; however, we never really read the Bible. I held many woo woo beliefs and conspiracy theories as a kid and young adult. I was a very weird Christian but never devout. I don't know when I stopped believing honestly. As I got older I rejected the idea of divine revelation and holy books. Deism made more sense to me than Christian theism mostly because of the problem of evil and the problem of religious disagreement. I also stopped believing stupid conspiracy theories , seeing that shit for what it really was. I think my deism and skepticism in regards to conspiracy theories led naturally to atheism. I really prefer skeptic or freethinker to the word atheist since they are broader terms.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
