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mediocrates · September 17, 2015 at 10:20 pm

This was my introduction at the thinking atheist forum. I recently joined there too and nothing has changed since then sooo...

I'm the son of a pastor and hence raised christian. I've been having difficulty during the past few years as I've started to admit to myself that what I've been taught makes no sense [Image: huh.gif]

It's been a lonely path to walk alone and I recently 'came out' to my wife who said she knew already and was ok with it [Image: shocking.gif]

It was a scary conversation to initiate, but it turned out well. I don't think we've been in a church since our wedding, so I don't know what I was worried about.

Now I'm looking for more like minded people to talk to which leads me here. I look forward to browsing the forums and talking to you all!

**The Valkyrie** · September 17, 2015 at 10:48 pm

Welcome aboard.

Must be difficult being an atheist and a pastor's son.

**rexbeccarox** · September 17, 2015 at 10:53 pm

Welcome! Love your username! Smile

Losty · September 17, 2015 at 10:57 pm

Oh hai! Welcome, it's nice to have you

mediocrates · (This post was last modified: September 17, 2015 at 11:00 pm by mediocrates.)

(September 17, 2015 at 10:48 pm)Beccs Wrote: Must be difficult being an atheist and a pastor's son.

Yeah, I think it made my deconversion longer and harder that it should have been. I have a strong science background and I spent many years trying, unsuccessfully, to reconcile the logic I learned from the sciences with the nonsense I learned from religion. I thought you could make it work with both, but I found that it gets harder and harder until you have to let go of one or the other.

Anyway, it's good to have a place to talk about such things. Thanks for the welcome!

(September 17, 2015 at 10:53 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Welcome! Love your username!

Thanks!

**Minimalist** · September 17, 2015 at 11:25 pm

Mediocrates? I love it.

Kalispéra.

TheRocketSurgeon · September 17, 2015 at 11:29 pm

That's a great username! Man, I'm so jealous of people who come up with stuff that clever.

I feel you on the son of a pastor thing. My mom was a department head (and professor) at a private Southern Baptist/Christian university, just retiring from there this summer.

You'll find quite a few of us are in relationships with or married to Christian spouses, so there's a lot of support to be had. You are quite fortunate that your wife was so understanding. Mine's pretty awesome in that regard, as well; I think she enjoys making fun of anti-science fundamentalists at least as much as I do. (My church's BS teachings about science are what led to my eventual atheism.)

**robvalue** · September 18, 2015 at 7:29 am

Welcome to the forum Smile

**Bob Kelso** · September 18, 2015 at 7:31 am

Hey there pastor's son, I'm a pastor's grandson. We should swap stories sometime. Big Grin

Hope you enjoy the forums!

**Whateverist** · September 18, 2015 at 7:50 am

(September 18, 2015 at 7:31 am)Starvald Demelain Wrote: Hey there pastor's son, I'm a pastor's grandson. We should swap stories sometime.

Hope you enjoy the forums!

I'm a pastor's great grandson. His son, my father's father, was a bad boy who left his family in the lurch to take up with another woman. His son, my father, was raised as a ward of the court when his mother died young. He was an extreme, fundamentalist xtian who drove himself mad reading the bible late into the night. I myself am neither bad boy nor holy roller.

Welcome first generation non-pastor. I also like your username.

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