I'm already registered on atheistforums.org and have a lot of posts there if you want to get to know me better. I was raised Pentecostal and was a tongues-speaking teenager when I started to seriously read the KJV to better understand what God wanted from me. Then I read it again in a modern English version hoping the King's English had made me misunderstand it. No such luck. That didn't make me an atheist, but I wasn't a Christian anymore. I still believed there was some kind of benevolent Creator, but the ancient Hebrews clearly weren't getting their orders from anything like that.
My dad believed a LOT of things and so did I. I believed in ghosts, ESP, alien visitation, Bigfoot, the Lochness Monster...basically anything that might show up in Argosy magazine. But I also read The Selfish Gene and started thinking this evolution stuff might not be as crazy as the fundamentalists made it out to be. I joined the USAF out of High School and started getting more skeptical when some kids debunked the Duke University ESP studies, which I thought had proven psychic powers.
I didn't finish college until my mid-thirties, getting a BA in psychology. I took some science courses, learned there plausible natural explanations for the origin of the universe, and started having strong doubts about that Creator. What tipped me over finally to atheism was taking Intro to Religion from a convinced Orthodox Christian and Logic 201 in the same semester. The religion professor said he wasn't going to go into atheism because it was illogical and learned his fallacy in the other class. Since he wasn't going to cover it I read George Smith's Case Against God. It made sense to me. By the end of the semester I noticed there was nothing where I was holding a place for a possible God anymore. It was like a weight off my shoulders, from the cognitive dissonance I was suffering under unaware leaving.
My dad believed a LOT of things and so did I. I believed in ghosts, ESP, alien visitation, Bigfoot, the Lochness Monster...basically anything that might show up in Argosy magazine. But I also read The Selfish Gene and started thinking this evolution stuff might not be as crazy as the fundamentalists made it out to be. I joined the USAF out of High School and started getting more skeptical when some kids debunked the Duke University ESP studies, which I thought had proven psychic powers.
I didn't finish college until my mid-thirties, getting a BA in psychology. I took some science courses, learned there plausible natural explanations for the origin of the universe, and started having strong doubts about that Creator. What tipped me over finally to atheism was taking Intro to Religion from a convinced Orthodox Christian and Logic 201 in the same semester. The religion professor said he wasn't going to go into atheism because it was illogical and learned his fallacy in the other class. Since he wasn't going to cover it I read George Smith's Case Against God. It made sense to me. By the end of the semester I noticed there was nothing where I was holding a place for a possible God anymore. It was like a weight off my shoulders, from the cognitive dissonance I was suffering under unaware leaving.
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