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Former Swede, life-long atheist, now anti-theist

Hullo everybody! It says "Introductions", so I'll make a feeble attempt at one. Like the title says, I'm a former Swede (born & raised in Sweden in 1973, moved to the U.S. in 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2011), living in the midwest (KCMO). I have never been a believer, so there's no great story of my "fall from faith" to tell, but going from just ignoring faith I have lately come to despise religion and all its corrupt and misleading forms, and really take note of the irreparable damage it does to people, especially young minds.

To my strongest inspirators I count people like Dawkins, Hitchens, Feynman, De Grasse Tyson, Carolyn Porco, Phil Plait and others, and I have a blog that my wife lovingly refers to as my "hate-blog" - Musings of an Atheist, which I to date haven't really decided on if I should try to push, or keep as a strictly catharsis experience.

Let's just start there :)

Thanks for reading!

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Holmstrom on February 23, 2012 at 7:28pm

It's very easy to hate religion when you live in the U.S. isn't it? I'm an American of Swedish descent too. My family has been here for a couple generations though. Welcome to Atheist Nexus! I'm relatively new myself ;)

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Permalink Reply by Mick Ohrberg on February 23, 2012 at 10:41pm

Indeed - once you realize how the religious (many of them) distrust us "unbelievers", and some of the rationalization that's going on, it's really easy. Also, once you realize how much religious interests influences political life, it's easier still.

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Permalink Reply by annet on February 23, 2012 at 8:07pm

Isn't Sweden quite secular? That must've been nice.

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Permalink Reply by Mick Ohrberg on February 23, 2012 at 10:44pm

Certainly one of the most secular countries in the world, according to some sources. I am both baptized and confirmed, but more so as a function of historical customs, and not (at least not to me) for any religious reason whatsoever. However, just recently looking into the newly born daughter of the crown princess of Sweden and the customary baptism, I found out that the Swedish regent/monarch/king/queen must be Christian - it's written into the constitution! Dark ages, I tell you.