So, here is the story.



The company we scraped together is registered in Sharjah and the country we ar operating in is mainly Christian.



1. If I had written atheist on the application in Sharjah the company would not have been registered

2. If I were to admit, here in the country we are working in that I am an atheist we would have no business

3. Some Internet researcher had found my name, my own name that I had posted with a few years ago and said straight – if… Continue

Working in Kandahar it was interesting but mostly sad to see how these people live. There is a certain morbid but generally accepted dysfunction about the region; self-inflicted by the local nationals that dwell there. I say dwell because it is not living in the sense you might be living your life.

 

I wondered aloud why one very rarely saw women anywhere –accepted that they would be wearing their grim blue burka. I was told by local Kandahar gentlemen that there is an…

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Scandinavian Nonbelievers, Which Is Not to Say Atheists



I wonder if they are not true atheists after all. Personally I 'lost' my belief in any divinity aged 6-7 yrs old. It happened because I was a lazy bugger to do my homework. One day I decided that perhaps I should impress my teacher by doing my homework after all. So what happened - I could not find my assignment book, panic! I searched high and low - nowhere was it to be found. I thought to myself that finding…

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