Q) Who convinced you to become an Atheist?

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Permalink Reply by frau-t on July 10, 2011 at 9:20am

F and G -- multiple behaviors of individuals who claimed to be good Christians convinced me it was a bunch of bull&*#%

Permalink Reply by Peggy Wilson on July 10, 2011 at 10:03am

B: The World Book Encyclopedia AND G : A PUBLIC school teacher in Stuttgart, AR.

 

Permalink Reply by Heather on July 10, 2011 at 11:11am

B) A book - the bible, yup sat down and actually read it... ta da!

Permalink Reply by SideburnsGalore on July 11, 2011 at 12:47am

F      

 

 

Permalink Reply by Shinta Quist on July 26, 2011 at 7:59am

B. The Koran and G. My Dad. Because growing up, my Dad(a devout muslim, to my point of view, someone in the extreme stage of delusion)always talked us into the idea of an almighty, most powerful, most loving God. And then my dad contradicted himself by always woke us up rudely at 3 in the morning/every morning to pray to God. I always wondered: if God was almighty, most powerful, most loving and all, why would he need us mere mortals to pray for him at such wee hours? To feel more powerful? To thank Him? But he's the almighty, most powerful. Why would he need that? Only a megalomaniacal someone could come up with such vicious idea, make your creations wake up at 3 to pray to you..

There were more of those nonsense I suffered when I was growing up, that's why I decided to make my mind my own mosque:-)

Permalink Reply by Grinning Cat on August 2, 2011 at 2:36am

Yes, "Kissing Hank's Ass", a wonderful "parable" by Jim Huber -- more of his stuff is at www.jhuger.com .

He provides a great excuse to mention "J) My god is an atheist, therefore I am an atheist": he describes himself as a "mystic atheist"; God spoke with him in a vision and told him (among other things) that God didn't exist. (Maybe visions aren't reliably connected with reality....)

Permalink Reply by Jordan Phillips on August 1, 2011 at 8:44pm

F and I.

Permalink Reply by MrPeach on August 2, 2011 at 8:36pm

I - I was born an atheist, and my folks made the mistake of providing me with a fair sized library of reading material that included decent coverage of the worlds major religions. As soon as I could read I inoculated myself against the religion virus.

Permalink Reply by Kenneth Harold Fouche' Jr. on August 3, 2011 at 12:14am

I'd have to say O, I lost it listening to Xtians rant about God. Poof! instant Atheist.

Permalink Reply by Jackie Burgett on August 3, 2011 at 1:04am

N of course!
More like B, F, G, and then, well, I. A perfect storm of skepticism, intelligent people and Carl Sagan books led me realize that I was always an atheist in denial.

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