(For those to whom it applies) What were the first questions you had that led you to atheism?
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What were your first questions?
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Why did this loving god order genocides, advocate slavery, child sacrifice, infanticide, rape? Why did it allow priests to molest children? Why is the Bible so poorly written? I had a lot of questions. I don’t have any anymore because i don’t see any evidence for any god(s).
I believe in life before death.
My first questions were in regard to the obvious contradictions I encountered while taking the challenge of actually reading the bible.
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
As far as I recall it was directed to the doctor.
Why'd you hit me you fuck? 
I reckon mine weren't questions but more of "hold on this doesn't make sense" over and over till I was like why do i believe if I can't even make sense out of it.
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you." 
Why'd you expect me to feel guilty when I did/thought what my body gives me no choice to? That's messed up.
Mine were probably along the lines of "Seriously? You really believe that shit?" Religion's not much of a thing over here; certainly not when I was growing up.
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.'
Hard to say, but one early one was "Do I really agree with everything said and done in this book?". Because if I don't find it acceptable, then why am I worshiping that god?
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html  RE: What were your first questions?
March 20, 2018 at 5:11 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2018 at 5:11 pm by vulcanlogician.)
I was a college student in '75 and came out in my first months on campus. A religious group on campus, Campus Crusade for Christ made no bones about being against gay rights and anything else pro-gay and that launched me on my way to atheism. Took a long time actually. I was Methodist in '75 and later on put in a few years Unitarian/Universalist. AIDS era really put me off religion for keeps.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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