I am a 100% atheist. My parents were also atheists BUT they gave me the option. I was shown where the church was and it was suggested that I go find out what religion was all about. Note that I was not dictated to by my parents but given the choice; allowed to make up my own mind. Of course, as a small child, one is very impressionable and the tendency is that, at that age, one simply absorbs everything one is told as the undeniable truth. So, my early church attendances were, even at a tender age, used as a oeriod of analysis. As far as I remember, it may have been at the age of 12 when I began to have serious doubts about the 'truth' and it must have been at the age of 15 when I finally stepped over the line and announced to myself that I was a non-believer.
So, along with the tooth-fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, the concept of there being a paranormal supreme being living up in the sky somewhere and observing every move and every thought that everyone in the world was ha
2006-09-19
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