My Light
June 27, 2010 at 3:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2010 at 6:21 pm by Samson.)
Thought I might as well post my story considering how long I've been a part of these forums....
My conversion is pretty cut and dry....
I was raised in a "VERY" Baptist and Pentecostal background, however that was only one-half of my family. The other half are from Lebanon, but live in the states. I had more of the Christian side from birth till 10, with little influences of Islam here and there.
By the time I turned thirteen I was already questioning both sides of the desert beliefs, but I still believed in a biblical type god.
It wasn't until I was sixteen that I finally sat down and read the Bible (OT/NT) and at nineteen I read the Qur'an.
From that point on I tried to find every Theist/religious book I could get my hands on. After that, I spent almost 10 years of my life realizing how human they all were on so many levels. Those nice little similarities from civilizations gone and passed down.
By that time, I had already threw out any notions that a Bible, Torah, Qur'an, etc. were reasons to believe in a god, but I was still superstitious and leaned more towards a Pagan type backing.
It took more years and more reading and more traveling in my life to break the chains of it all. For anyone out there who believes that it's easy to become Atheist or get to that point on a personal level, I would have to disagree.
I am more comfortable and happy in my life now than I have ever been throughout my years of trying to have an understanding. Of course I don't know it all, but what I do know is that superstitious bullshit is blinding......
Good luck out there to anyone who is struggling in their own minds in concerns with religion....
My conversion is pretty cut and dry....
I was raised in a "VERY" Baptist and Pentecostal background, however that was only one-half of my family. The other half are from Lebanon, but live in the states. I had more of the Christian side from birth till 10, with little influences of Islam here and there.
By the time I turned thirteen I was already questioning both sides of the desert beliefs, but I still believed in a biblical type god.
It wasn't until I was sixteen that I finally sat down and read the Bible (OT/NT) and at nineteen I read the Qur'an.
From that point on I tried to find every Theist/religious book I could get my hands on. After that, I spent almost 10 years of my life realizing how human they all were on so many levels. Those nice little similarities from civilizations gone and passed down.
By that time, I had already threw out any notions that a Bible, Torah, Qur'an, etc. were reasons to believe in a god, but I was still superstitious and leaned more towards a Pagan type backing.
It took more years and more reading and more traveling in my life to break the chains of it all. For anyone out there who believes that it's easy to become Atheist or get to that point on a personal level, I would have to disagree.
I am more comfortable and happy in my life now than I have ever been throughout my years of trying to have an understanding. Of course I don't know it all, but what I do know is that superstitious bullshit is blinding......
Good luck out there to anyone who is struggling in their own minds in concerns with religion....
Intelligence is the only true moral guide...
