So then I told Jesus to fuck off
May 20, 2016 at 7:52 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2016 at 7:53 pm by Gemini.)
Long after leaving the church, my grandfather told me about the time someone gave him a tract. He showed it to his mother, and she said, "This is trash," and threw it in the garbage. And then he told me that his parents were atheists. Back in the days of Bertrand Russel and Robert G. Ingersoll.
As for my grandfather, he got sucked into the delusion. He raised his children that way, and my mother raised me that way. It was when I was starting High School that, being considered a faggot by the community of Christians I had grown up with, I began evaluating the truth of my religion without the blinders of social pressure. I wasn't welcome in my church no matter what I believed, so there was very little at stake for me.
By the time I was a senior in High School I concluded that God didn't exist. It was all bullshit. I had been raised on young earth creationism and "Dr." James Dobson, so I hadn't even heard any pseudo-sophisticated arguments in favor of theism. It was nothing simple-minded bullshit distributed by unreflective, incurious dogmatists.
I wonder how differently my life would have gone had my grandfather heeded his mother's warning.
As for my grandfather, he got sucked into the delusion. He raised his children that way, and my mother raised me that way. It was when I was starting High School that, being considered a faggot by the community of Christians I had grown up with, I began evaluating the truth of my religion without the blinders of social pressure. I wasn't welcome in my church no matter what I believed, so there was very little at stake for me.
By the time I was a senior in High School I concluded that God didn't exist. It was all bullshit. I had been raised on young earth creationism and "Dr." James Dobson, so I hadn't even heard any pseudo-sophisticated arguments in favor of theism. It was nothing simple-minded bullshit distributed by unreflective, incurious dogmatists.
I wonder how differently my life would have gone had my grandfather heeded his mother's warning.
