Just a little inquiry.

Eos of the Eons said:
Then the anti-science angle turned me off of it once and for all...
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I also wanted to believe in God (actually I wanted to be Pagan and/or Wiccan), but I was unable to accept religion because it was incompatible with science. For a while in college, I had the "Hang in there, Yahweh, time'll prove science and Wiccanism work together"... yeah, you can see how that turned out.

oh and when they told us not to be friends to non-christians (you can be nice to them, just don't be friends with them).
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Yeah, I have my experience with those kinds of people. I hate to break it to them, but uhhh, I think they're makin' the baby Jesus cry... :D
 
Yeah, I even started to look into paganism, but once they went into spirits and seeing ghosts-then my eyes did start rolling to the back of my head!

I can see the baby Jesus cryin over all the wars started by religion...that segregation and elitism has no good results.

Then I went on a few wicca sites and the homeopathy was rampant. Irradiation is a conspiracy to get rid of nuclear waste doncha know. GM foods are dumped on the third world too. Then onto DEET being just as bad as DDT...

hmmphh. ANY religion can have me fuming in a matter of minutes. I give up.

Well, not really giving up...waking up. I'm all 'bright eyed' now...LOL,

The brights movement is even doomed I think.
 
Nyarlathotep said:
As an aside, I notice a lot of ex-mormons here. It seems to me hat the vast majority of atheists that I know are either ex-Mormons or ex-Catholics. I wonder what it is about those two religions that creates such a disproportionately high number of atheists, or if it's just coincidence.
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I don't know about Mormons, but because Catholics are the largest Christian denomination (at least 60 million in the United States), one would expect ex-Catholics to have high representation among atheists even if Catholics were no more likely than the average Christian to become atheist. Perhaps the number seems disproportionate compared to other atheists, but is merely proportionate to the very large number of "potential" ex-Catholics.
 
born orthodox raised interdominational right now I consider myself a mere believer in God, at the same time I don't go for ghosts, homeopathy, healings, talking to the dead woo-woo mumbo jumbo and have a firm faith in science that does not interfere with my belief in God.
 
[b]Nefertiti[/b] said:
Baptised Christian. Now partial Animist.
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As long as you don't let yourself to fantasize that there will be a day that you will become the Queen here, you have the right to believe what ever you wish ... :p
 
Axolotls don't believe in anything...

Except that they will eat something soon.
 
Baptized and (forcibly) confirmed Roman Catholic. Raised by a hardline-sicilian and a convert.

Now, an atheist who practices Buddhist philosophy and meditation without focussing on the spiritual aspects, or "religion" behind it. I follow these tennents because they help me relax and keep a good deal of anger in check.
 
I am an Atheist + Agnostic

I have had christianity pushed onto me for yaers, through school and family but its never been anything more than an old fairy tale to me.
 
I'ma gonna say... Atheist.

Although "Recovering Catholic" might be more appropriate. :-)
 
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