I'm new to the site, and looking for a good conversation with my fellow Atheists. :)
August 1, 2011 at 8:09 pm
Well, I'm new to the site. That seems like a pretty plausable place to start.
I'm Cathee (you can call me Cath though) and I'm an atheist. My story isn't very interesting of how I became an Atheist. I was never raised in a really religious household, despite being christened and inflicted upon with the brand of a 'protestent'. Throughout my younger years, I referred to myself as a 'proddy' - the Scottish term for those under the protestent label - despite not being even remotely interested or aware of Christianities teachings (if you can even call them that.) It was in high school when I was at the age where I was at the 'yeah, I hate the world' stage where I really delved into the logical thinking of an Atheist. I started to question things. Like why there are so many problems in the world? Why is there suffering? Why is there death? You know? I would ask my mother at this point, which she would give the obvious shrug and the typical parent-y reply of 'there just is', to which I recieved an even more disinterested answer from my father. My knowledge of the Atheist world was broadened in my RMPS (Religious and Moral Philisophical Studies) class, my first teacher being a very religious man. A reverend believe it or not. He 'preached' to me and my fellow students that you should not ask questions of God, but just do what He says. That sickened me. Why would he give us the ability to think for ourselves if he didn't want us to ask a few questions on the way? It just didn't make sense. Then, thankfully, I got dealt a teacher that was on a completely different spectrum from the previous lunatic. He questioned everything - with a pessimistic heart, though - and wanted us to think for ourselves. Not have our thoughts and opinions forced upon us. I'm 16 right now, and will most likely return to that class to study the world of Atheism. I don't beleive there is a God. Never has been. Never will be. I very much believe the bible is NOT the word of God, but in fact stories written by different people over time, different things being used as symbols - the way they are used in todays literacy. Jesus being the protagonist, faced with many antagonists, just like any other 'adventure story'. Or whatever you want to refer to the bible as.
You may think 'oh shut up, what do you know? You're sixteen, still at school, and obviously haven't experienced the world' but does that not answer your question? Yes, I am only 16 and am still at school, and no I have not experienced the world, but even I - a typically naive teenager - can realise the absurdities created within the religious minds of those around us. That's how easy it is to open your eyes and realise how much of an unreliable source religion is in comparison to scientific evidence for example. You don't have to think like Darwin, Hawking or Dawkins. You could be the next Jim or Bob and still be able to realise this. Unless you're the pope.
Thanks for reading this bundle of very uninteresting crap I just wrote. Felt the need to let you all in to Cathee's brain. LOL.
Anywho, thanks again.
Cath.
I'm Cathee (you can call me Cath though) and I'm an atheist. My story isn't very interesting of how I became an Atheist. I was never raised in a really religious household, despite being christened and inflicted upon with the brand of a 'protestent'. Throughout my younger years, I referred to myself as a 'proddy' - the Scottish term for those under the protestent label - despite not being even remotely interested or aware of Christianities teachings (if you can even call them that.) It was in high school when I was at the age where I was at the 'yeah, I hate the world' stage where I really delved into the logical thinking of an Atheist. I started to question things. Like why there are so many problems in the world? Why is there suffering? Why is there death? You know? I would ask my mother at this point, which she would give the obvious shrug and the typical parent-y reply of 'there just is', to which I recieved an even more disinterested answer from my father. My knowledge of the Atheist world was broadened in my RMPS (Religious and Moral Philisophical Studies) class, my first teacher being a very religious man. A reverend believe it or not. He 'preached' to me and my fellow students that you should not ask questions of God, but just do what He says. That sickened me. Why would he give us the ability to think for ourselves if he didn't want us to ask a few questions on the way? It just didn't make sense. Then, thankfully, I got dealt a teacher that was on a completely different spectrum from the previous lunatic. He questioned everything - with a pessimistic heart, though - and wanted us to think for ourselves. Not have our thoughts and opinions forced upon us. I'm 16 right now, and will most likely return to that class to study the world of Atheism. I don't beleive there is a God. Never has been. Never will be. I very much believe the bible is NOT the word of God, but in fact stories written by different people over time, different things being used as symbols - the way they are used in todays literacy. Jesus being the protagonist, faced with many antagonists, just like any other 'adventure story'. Or whatever you want to refer to the bible as.
You may think 'oh shut up, what do you know? You're sixteen, still at school, and obviously haven't experienced the world' but does that not answer your question? Yes, I am only 16 and am still at school, and no I have not experienced the world, but even I - a typically naive teenager - can realise the absurdities created within the religious minds of those around us. That's how easy it is to open your eyes and realise how much of an unreliable source religion is in comparison to scientific evidence for example. You don't have to think like Darwin, Hawking or Dawkins. You could be the next Jim or Bob and still be able to realise this. Unless you're the pope.
Thanks for reading this bundle of very uninteresting crap I just wrote. Felt the need to let you all in to Cathee's brain. LOL.
Anywho, thanks again.
Cath.
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