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New Atheist on the Block

Ignore the title. It was the wittiest thing I could come up with at short notice.

Anway, hello people.

My name is Amy, in case you haven't noticed. I'm 15, very soon to be 16, and I'm about to go to college in a few months, for a course in physics (and chemistry, maths and music on the side), and I hope to help science in some way or another in my lifetime, which is really my ambition.

As far as religious followers are concerned, I don't automatically hate people if they tell me they're religious. I hate religion, not people. Agreed, religion has led to some horrible crimes, and I hate the people who committed them, but that doesn't mean everyone's like them.

I was brought up an atheist, born into a family of atheists and agnostics, so really I'm quite lucky never to have never had to cope with the brainwashing that is modern religion.

I'm also lucky to have been born in the UK, where atheism is widely accepted apart from the odd religious nutcase, but we can't avoid them completely, ay? Speaking of countries with a high tolerance and percentage of atheism, I recently went on a foreign exchange with school to Germany for a week. There wasn't a mention of religion the whole time I was there, by anyone, so I rather liked it there indeed. I've heard most of Europe is like that though.

I also support the cause for the Isle of Wight to be made symmetrical, and I think Fox News should sort their heads out.

Right, I think that's enough said on my part for now. Thanks for reading, and also...

LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL! :D

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Permalink Reply by MindUpper on May 23, 2010 at 5:17pm

Welcome to the Nexus Amy!

Regarding your student exchange, you must`ve been to an urban area, because religion is still pretty strong in the countryside here in Germany, at least in the old western part.

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Permalink Reply by Amy Harvey on May 23, 2010 at 5:46pm

Actually, it was Munich :) so, yeah, you're probably right.

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Permalink Reply by MindUpper on May 23, 2010 at 5:57pm

Thats interesting... Bavaria is the most catholic of all german federal states... Visist any public school there and you`ll find class rooms with crosses on the walls.. ugh

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Permalink Reply by Amy Harvey on May 23, 2010 at 6:08pm

Having said that, there do seem to be different sections in cities, anyway. For instance, in the city I live in, there are parts which are very religious, and parts that aren't. I live in an area which is quite secular, but go somewhere else, it's highly religious. Obviously, I had the luck to go to a very secular area, somehow.

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Permalink Reply by MindUpper on May 23, 2010 at 6:17pm

Thats a good observation. And if I remember correctly, Munich is the bavarian center of social democrats, meaning people who support more moderate religion or atheism.

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Permalink Reply by Amy Harvey on May 23, 2010 at 6:35pm

What I wrote was basically a first impression of Munich as a whole- you may be right. Having said that, I don't know much about Germany...

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Permalink Reply by MindUpper on May 23, 2010 at 6:47pm

And I`m not very familiar with the UK. I visited London for a week about 15 years ago... and thats it. Here something totally unrelated but funny I stumbled about:

shitcasecinema

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Permalink Reply by Amy Harvey on May 23, 2010 at 6:56pm

I've just watched a coupla things now... there's nothing quite like taking the piss out of crappy 80s movies :D

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Permalink Reply by MindUpper on May 23, 2010 at 7:19pm

Those guys are quite funny most of the time. I like surfing through youtube, you find the most hillarious things.

Permalink Reply by John D on May 23, 2010 at 5:30pm

Welcome Amy -

I have had a German exchange student with me and my family all year. It has been good for all involved. Part of the reason this particular girl came to stay with us is that we were one of the few families who said we were Atheists. (PS - I am American). She is also atheist (but not so hard core as I am)

She was going to be staying somewhere in Indiana (yikes! I saved her from that). We live in a suburb of Detroit and there are a few like minded folks here.

She is surprised we are not a "dumb" as she expected we would be! Haha. Some of those Germans are pretty direct. She is from Berlin so it doesn't get much more urban than that.

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Permalink Reply by Jaume on May 23, 2010 at 5:33pm

...and I hope to help science in some way or another in my lifetime, which is really my ambition.

If your goal is to make yourself popular on this board, you couldn't find a better introduction than that. Except maybe offering free beers to all the regulars here. Welcome!