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Black Female Athiest Looking for Atheist Friends!
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 (July 28, 2012 at 1:33 pm)mina1991 Wrote: Wow.. I did not expect this expect anyone to response to quickly. Thanks a lot for the very warm welcome? I know you guys have probably talked about it a million times..but could you talk about how you came to be an atheist? Short version: I learned about other religions, so I then began to question my own beliefs. Welcome, by the way. I'm half black myself, but I'm a former christian.
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Welcome!
 RE: Black Female Athiest Looking for Atheist Friends!
July 28, 2012 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2012 at 2:07 pm by Darth.)
Reading the bible set me on my path (it was actually in my religious education class funnily enough), there is some messed up stuff in there that's for sure. I was always a fast reader, everyone else was in the four gospels still. I was bored and reading whatever I wanted, first I skipped ahead to revelations, but it was some of the smiting/killing in gods name in the old testament that shook me. I came to believe that God was evil and real at one stage. After that though I believed there was a generally good god/force in the universe, sort of a benevolent deism, nothing biblical. Then I got to reading, and swapped between deism and agnostic atheism a couple of times before settling where I am (gnostic/agnostic atheist, depending on which god you're asking me about =P)
 (July 28, 2012 at 1:33 pm)mina1991 Wrote: Wow.. I did not expect this expect anyone to response to quickly. Thanks a lot for the very warm welcome? I know you guys have probably talked about it a million times..but could you talk about how you came to be an atheist? You can read many stories like these in the Convert's Corner. :3 ![[Image: SigBarSping_zpscd7e35e1.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i169.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu224%2FUchiha_Kina%2FTags%2FSigBarSping_zpscd7e35e1.png) 
Like others here I've always been atheist. I've never known any other way of thinking on this subject and I can't even imagine what it must be like to be a believer. Welcome from me, btw.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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First - when I was 11 I realized that the people spewing this shit were a bunch of very flawed individuals....some might say "lying shits."
Second - when I was 20 I learned that there were serious historical holes in the story. 40 years later I'm still exploring those holes. 
welcome.
i never really believed, but started thinking something was fishy when i was probably in my early teens, with pastors acting funny and groups praying together but nothing ever coming of it. just seemed like what i'd learned in school about cults and i didn't want any parts of that.
they can land a rover on mars, yet they still have to stick a human finger up my ass to do a prostate exam?! - ricky gervais
Welcome.
Fiercely believing Christian up until the age of 7 or 8. Non-believer by 10. I was taken to church up until 5 or 6, so what I came to believe was what my imagination could do with what I was told orally. I never read the bible. I'm glad I had the religious experience I did. Gives me some empathy for others. My father would have made leaving much harder had he not been away at sea in the navy a or and a more forceful personality. Glad I never invested in the bible I think that would have been quite a bit tougher. |
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