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SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-03-22 12:01am

I was born a red diaper, evangelical hellfire and brimstone athiest(GOD DOESN"T EXIST IDIOT!!!!!!), and I came on this board and was among equals.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-03-22 03:01am

Me, although I sometimes act too extremist as an atheist. Well it had a factor actually, since what started it was Durandal's web page.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-03-22 11:32am

I was an agonistic/deist when I first came to this board with a lot of the presumptions and fallacious bias against atheists which is why I was afraid to be one.

Reading the site, and getting reading the Skeptics Annotated Bible, as well as reading books on logic and Darwinism clinched it completely. I'm a complete atheist now.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-03-22 11:46am

I was raised Catholic lite. I converted to atheism on my own in middle school, but changed back again when I found out I could get 50 dollars plus a video game as my Confirmation gift.

After that, I just didn't care much for a couple years, although I still had to go to Sunday school (made the mistake of bringing up abortion favorably once, HUUUUUUGE mistake), had a slight renewal of faith near the end of high school (faith, not religion; I still never went to Church), later moving towards agnosticism. I guess this board as well as some other sources can be credited with pushing me over the edge, to atheism again.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-03-22 01:28pm

Durran Korr wrote:I was raised Catholic lite. I converted to atheism on my own in middle school, but changed back again when I found out I could get 50 dollars plus a video game as my Confirmation gift.

You got a gift for confirmation? Huh.

My sister went through with confirmation, when I came "of age", my mother asked me if I wanted to do it. I shrugged and said that I wasn't sure if I wanted to just yet, and I'd put it off for a few years to decide, since there really wasn't any reason to do it right then. After that, she never mentioned it again.

My father never really cared in the first place, I don't think. But then he's more into new age stuff than organized religion. Now I think my mother is grateful that I didn't become overly religious, because now my dad has become something of a John Edward follower, which I challenge openly.

After that, I just didn't care much for a couple years, although I still had to go to Sunday school (made the mistake of bringing up abortion favorably once, HUUUUUUGE mistake), had a slight renewal of faith near the end of high school (faith, not religion; I still never went to Church), later moving towards agnosticism. I guess this board as well as some other sources can be credited with pushing me over the edge, to atheism again.

Man, I feel sorry for you. I stopped going to Sunday school (and church functions altogether, except for high school) a long time ago. Of course, I had a lot of asshole bullies from my public school in Sunday school, so I used that as an excuse to get the hell away from them.

Curiously, despite my high school being a Methodist boarding school, it's probably my experiences there that most inclined me towards atheism. Note that this is strange because my high school was perhaps among my best scholastic experiences. For my religion classes (a mandatory requirement), I studied the Book of Revelations and Cults, with the School's Reverend (who is a really cool guy). The other weird thing is that the head of the Science Department majored in Religious Studies at Brown, while the Reverend studied science.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-03-22 04:25pm

I was a Christian as a kid, then lost interest, then became Atheist.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-03-22 05:23pm

I was raised a Christian, and I didn't do "sinful things" because I bought the hell stuff. By the 7th grade, I began to wonder what was so sinful about them, and if I didn't do such stuff then, it wasn't for religous reasons. It wasn't until I came here that I became a Deist.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-03-22 05:54pm

I was raised Baptist, but always put ethics, logic, and science above religion. The church I was raised in did so also, so there was no conflict. After moving to rural Louisiana for college, I met the fundies, and had to make a decision. I'm sure you all know what path I chose.