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Jeff Bradt, user since 2013, becoming active
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RE: Jeff Bradt, user since 2013, becoming active
Hi Jeff, Welcome from the UK!

Glad to see you're getting more involved. I spent a couple of years lurking before I started posting so I can tell you it's much more fun Big Grin

Would you like a cup of tea?

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Sum ergo sum
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RE: Jeff Bradt, user since 2013, becoming active
"Active" I guess is a relative term?
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RE: Jeff Bradt, user since 2013, becoming active
Welcome to the forums Jeff. Glad to have ya, and also glad you decided to become more active in the secular community. I was once active myself in a local freethought group back in the early 2000's until I became disabled. Maybe I will tell you about my participation in a couple of protests soon. Cheers! Smile
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."--Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Jeff Bradt, user since 2013, becoming active
(June 13, 2017 at 3:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "Active" I guess is a relative term?

Sorry, I meant to be active on this forum. I have not been on since posting this message in June. I thought I would spend more time on here.
I do not ask that you respect religion, but we need to respect the religious, because they are rational humans just like us atheists. I was rational when I was a Christian. I believed because of indoctrination, not lack of intelligence.
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RE: Jeff Bradt, user since 2013, becoming active
Welcome, Jeff.
Dying to live, living to die.
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#26
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That's okay.  There are no minimum posting rules.
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RE: Jeff Bradt, user since 2013, becoming active
(October 7, 2017 at 8:28 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Welcome, Jeff.

Thank you, Valkyrie!
I do not ask that you respect religion, but we need to respect the religious, because they are rational humans just like us atheists. I was rational when I was a Christian. I believed because of indoctrination, not lack of intelligence.
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RE: Jeff Bradt, user since 2013, becoming active
Welcome Jeff
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

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RE: Jeff Bradt, user since 2013, becoming active
Hey Jeff, welcome!
I didn't see your original post back in June - I'm from your neck of the woods (Olean, actually). Went to UB in the 90s. I was back there to visit in July and stayed in a very nice airbnb in north Buffalo. Hope ya stick around this time! Smile

-Teresa
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RE: Jeff Bradt, user since 2013, becoming active
(June 2, 2017 at 10:32 am)Jeff Bradt Wrote: Hi!
I'm living in Buffalo, NY; I've been in the area for a couple decades now. I'm 47.
At age 12, I walked into the kitchen and, after some hesitation, said, "Mom, there is no god. I'm an atheist."
She was surprisingly accepting, especially considering she had convinced her husband to convert and raise us all Catholic. My family has never given me a problem about my atheism. I realize that this is often not the case, and to those of you who had/have struggles with non-accommodating people my heart goes out.
Anyway, I considered myself an atheist until at age 26 I decided to use Christianity (non-denominational) as a crutch. For 12 years I did so, in a cultish church here in the Buffalo area. Then I left and, after going to another non-denominational church while calling myself an agnostic for a while, I finally left the last church of which I will ever be a member (unless I discover a good atheist church).

In April 2015, I had sent a letter to the bishop of the parish in which I had been baptized as an infant and on the 28th I received a formal letter of defection. This was the single best move I have made in my entire life to date. (Getting married will be the only better move; I haven't quite gotten to that yet. Wish my girlfriend and me luck! So far the chance looks excellent.)

In the meantime, I have been participating increasingly in on- and offline atheist groups. Atheist advocacy has become a passion of mine. I am not the most active activist, but I have progressed at least slightly beyond slacktivism.

I look forward each day to learning more about the real world and dismissing all the falsities I may have.

Cheers for now!
~Jeff

Hey, I'm in Albany, NY!  We're neighbors!  Sort of...😁
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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