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14 Nov 2006 10:55:08 AM |
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Background Religion Check In |
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
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| User: "The Chief Instigator" |
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14 Nov 2006 04:20:54 PM |
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"V" <vfr44@aol.com> writes:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
Methodist, in my case, but the parents didn't go to church all that often, and
I was out of that pattern by the time I hit college. (Ouch. That was 34
years ago.)
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Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2006-07 Houston Aeros)
LAST GAME: Houston 3, Iowa 1 (November 10)
NEXT GAME: Wednesday, November 15 at Milwaukee, 7:05
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| User: "Gail Futoran" |
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| Title: Re: Background Religion Check In |
14 Nov 2006 09:31:43 PM |
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"V" <vfr44@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1163523308.023942.133410@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
Raised Lutheran, one of the moderate branches (varieties?). I still like
the music and can ignore the meaning of the words. My father was very
religious but also very accepting of other religious beliefs and loved
debating people who came to the door offering their brand. My mother was
religious but not aso much as my father. I don't think she bothered with
church much in her later years. By then my father was dead and my
stepfather wasn't very religious.
I went to Sunday School & church, was baptized, christened, took communion,
the whole schtick. I don't think I was ever really enthusiastic, but
neither did I feel a need to rebel, or feel uncomfortable.
Then, somewhere around my early college years, I drifted away and I suppose
by my early 20s I had figured out I was an agnostic, at least. As I matured
atheism looked more and more reasonable. I.e., my atheism was a gradual
intellectual development.
I've been an atheist at least 25 years and I'm very very comfortable with
it. I know one other person who considers herself atheist; everyone else -
friends and family and neighbors - are religious to one extent or another,
from "I believe in something, not sure what..." to evangelical Christian and
orthodox Jew. I don't harass them about their religious beliefs as long as
they don't harass me about my lack of religious beliefs.
Gail
aa#2247
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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14 Nov 2006 03:26:41 PM |
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"V" <vfr44@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1163523308.023942.133410@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
Raised without religion, though mom did drag us to a Unitarian church for
about two years when my brother and I were very young. I studied quite a
few, but more out of curiousity than anything else (Am currently reading
about Buddhism).
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Background Religion Check In |
15 Nov 2006 02:30:05 AM |
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In article <1163523308.023942.133410@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"V" <vfr44@aol.com> wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
I was also raised Catholic and was 21 when I saw the light. That was 45
years ago.
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "stoney" |
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22 Nov 2006 12:09:43 PM |
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On 14 Nov 2006 08:55:08 -0800, "V" <vfr44@aol.com> wrote in alt.atheism
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
Please note, one doesn't 'turn to' atheism. One loses the induced
theism.
RCC until after First Communion then Lutheran indoctrination until my
junior year in high school.
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shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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14 Nov 2006 08:12:39 PM |
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On 14 Nov 2006 08:55:08 -0800, "V" <vfr44@aol.com> wrote:
- Refer: <1163523308.023942.133410@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism?
Hang on a mo!
"if any" means that you are also asking those who have never
contracted the infection of theism.
The phrase "before turning to atheism" is utterly meaningless in this
case.
I happen to be one of those who have remained with theism since birth.
My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
My parents are both lifelong atheists as well, for what it is worth.
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| User: "Neil Kelsey" |
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14 Nov 2006 08:46:35 PM |
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Michael Gray wrote:
On 14 Nov 2006 08:55:08 -0800, "V" <vfr44@aol.com> wrote:
- Refer: <1163523308.023942.133410@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism?
Hang on a mo!
"if any" means that you are also asking those who have never
contracted the infection of theism.
The phrase "before turning to atheism" is utterly meaningless in this
case.
I happen to be one of those who have remained with theism since birth.
Well you've really had me fooled then.
My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
My parents are both lifelong atheists as well, for what it is worth.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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15 Nov 2006 04:59:11 PM |
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:42:39 +1030, Michael Gray
<mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:
I happen to be one of those who have remained with theism since birth.
I hope that was a typo.
My parents are both lifelong atheists as well, for what it is worth.
So we not only worship in the same Church, but sit in the same pew.
--
rukbat at optonline dot net
"I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world
insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."
- Letter to S. Flesch, April 16, 1954; Einstein Archive 30-1154
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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15 Nov 2006 08:06:33 PM |
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:59:11 -0500, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
wrote:
- Refer: <ms6nl29jfrfc323k4n1piq6rarm5avtaht@4ax.com>
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:42:39 +1030, Michael Gray
<mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:
I happen to be one of those who have remained with theism since birth.
I hope that was a typo.
Erm, yes.
(How embarrassing).
My parents are both lifelong atheists as well, for what it is worth.
So we not only worship in the same Church, but sit in the same pew.
Joined by my daughter!
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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15 Nov 2006 10:22:10 PM |
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:36:33 +1030, Michael Gray
<mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:59:11 -0500, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
wrote:
- Refer: <ms6nl29jfrfc323k4n1piq6rarm5avtaht@4ax.com>
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:42:39 +1030, Michael Gray
<mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:
I happen to be one of those who have remained with theism since birth.
I hope that was a typo.
Erm, yes.
(How embarrassing).
My parents are both lifelong atheists as well, for what it is worth.
So we not only worship in the same Church, but sit in the same pew.
Joined by my daughter!
Well, I KNEW her father is. :)
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rukbat at optonline dot net
"If we really know Truth, we do not fear hearing falsehoods or half-truths; if we are not sure of the truth - we shudder and try to shout down every utterance." - A. J. Mims
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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14 Nov 2006 01:47:47 PM |
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On 14 Nov 2006 08:55:08 -0800, "V" <vfr44@aol.com> wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism?
Fetuses have no religious beliefs. I haven't seen any reason to have
religious beliefs in the 60+ years since then.
It seemed the more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense.
The Bible is probably the single greatest cause of atheism.
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rukbat at optonline dot net
"We should do unto others as we would want them to do unto us. If I were an unborn
fetus I would want others to use force to protect me, therefore using force against
abortionists is *justifiable homocide*."
- "Pro-Life" doctor killer and corpse Paul Hill
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| User: "Uncle Clover" |
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14 Nov 2006 11:35:39 AM |
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On 14 Nov 2006 08:55:08 -0800, "V" <vfr44@aol.com> wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
Well, it goes something like this, you see:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
;-)
Just kidding. :-) I was born into a fundamentalist Protestant family of the
Nazarene sect. My home town of Jerome, PA has had about 1,600 people in it for
as long as I can remember, and doesn't have much more than this today (maybe
even less by now). Oddly enough, while it was an all-white town, most of the
people I knew from there weren't racially prejudiced. It's just not a town any
non-white people had felt inclined to move to up to that point, that's all.
There are some non-white families there now, and they don't appear to have any
trouble from the white ones. Other kinds of bigotry, however, were quite
rampant in my younger days, and may still pervade the town to a high degree now
(it's a little harder to gauge from the outside looking in).
As a child, I got to hear such wonderful rhetoric as, "We should blow Russia off
the face of the Earth," "All queers deserve to die," "Catholics are all going to
Hell because the worship the Pope, put Mary above God and still like to see
Jesus suffering on the cross" (a reference to a cruicifix of the type with Jesus
still pinned to it).
The following is a list of things I was taught to believe while being raised. I
must state, however, in the interest of fairness that these beliefs don't
represent the beliefs of the majority of the town of Jerome. These beliefs were
much more common than they are in larger, more modern cities, but they were
rampant among the particular people my family attended church with, and within
some members of my family, itself. Here goes:
- television is a gateway to Hell, itself;
- roller skating is a sin because it's too much like dancing;
- movie houses are evil, sinister places trying to take over the minds of our
children;
- fluoridated water is a plot by communists to turn Americans into mindless
zombies;
- the Rubik's cube is a Satanic device designed to undermine family values and
corrupt little children;
- all gay people are child molesters;
A smaller subset of those who believed the above also believed that the Earth is
flat and that the moon landings were a hoax perpetrated by a sinister government
intent on discrediting God. This was in the 1970's & 80's, with the last avowed
flat-earther that I knew of personally having died around 1998 or so. There are
probably others there who to this day still believe in a flat Earth, however.
You might think I'm kidding, but believe you me, I'm not. I'd heard each and
every single one of those things more times than I care to remember.
At the time, my dad was extremely homophobic, and quite vocal about it. I would
put him -almost- on par with Fred Phelps in that department - my dad never
picketted the funerals of gay people, but I'm quite sure that at the time, he
would have supported those who do. So when I first realized that I was one of
the gay people dad hated so much - I don't know if it's possible to imagine what
that does to a kid. He never said, "I hate -you-, son," or "I think -you-
deserve to die," but as a kid I was incapable of recognizing that. Every time
he said such things about gay people, I felt it with every bit as much of a
sting as if he -did- say it directly to and about me. I was around 7 years old
when I fully began to realize that I was gay, though I'd had my first same-sex
crush a few years earlier. I had to listen to my dad telling me that not only
did -he- hate me, but that the universe (aka "God") did, as well. Imagine
growing up so young thinking that the entire universe hated you and that you
deserved that hatred.
To read the above, my dad sounds like an awful person. I can't fault him for
the way he was, though. He was raised to believe such thing, and had the
negative stereotype of his own gay, child-molesting father to justify such views
in his mind. He never had any reason to examine his beliefs, they had never
been challenged. The primary thing that impresses me even to this day about him
is that even though his beliefs were misguided in my view, he wasn't being a
hypocrite. He honestly believed those things and never have I caught him
preaching one thing but practicing another. I can easily tolerate homophobia in
a person who honestly believes that such an attitude is correct and is not a
hypocrite.
I came out of the closet in my late twenties. Dad underwent a rather profound
transformation in character in the years that followed, and now I can honestly
say he's the dad I never really had. He's gone a long way in trying to make up
for all the harm his actions inflicted, and has finally stopped facing the gay
issue with a sneering scowl. In fact, I think he's actually open to the idea of
-friendship- with a gay person - iow, he's not just "tolerating" it because I'm
his son and he loves me, he's actually gone through a genuine and profound
change in views. If he merely tolerated me because I'm his son, even that would
have been progress. But to have affected a change so deep and profound in
someone I love so much, that's something I never dreamed would happen. It means
more to me than anyone will ever know.
Oops, gotta' go. I'm starting to cry. :-#
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L8r,
Uncle Clover
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In my experience, one's degree of wisdom tends
to bear an exponentially inverse relationship
to one's outpouring of words.
Clearly, I've a _long_ way to go... ;-)
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| User: "" |
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14 Nov 2006 01:04:34 PM |
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On Nov 14, 11:55=A0am, "V" <v...@aol.com> wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
I had 12 years of Catholic school. I finally realized I didn't believe
in any of it the 11th year.
Lana (who admits she was perhaps a slow learner)
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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14 Nov 2006 05:50:20 PM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet V (vfr44@aol.com) made the
light shine upon us with this:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
So little of my life was religious. My first memory is when I was four,
and I decided I didn't want to go to church any more when I was seven. I
reaffirmed that notion in my teen years, so maybe 90% of my life has been
spent as an atheist. I only recently attached the word "atheist" to my
non-religious nature. 9-11 was the slap in the face that brought that on.
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Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Proud member of Earthquack's "Ghost fulla holes" convict page
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| User: "DiViDeD" |
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14 Nov 2006 01:36:22 PM |
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V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before
turning to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It
seemed the more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made
any sense. My parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants
from Italy and catholic as so forth down the line.
V
No religious background. My father was a lapsed baptist (that's the
Welsh Free Chapel kind, not the deep south orange toupee, screaming at
the microphone type), my mother was (and is) a Scottish Free Thinker
and athiest who was blamed by my grandmother for 'perverting' her son.
My early life was scattered with visiting philosophers, painters,
musicians (hey, my dad did a studio session with Eric Clapton for the
beeb), scientists (Fred Hoyle had been my mother's boss for years) and
assorted weirdos.
we were given the opportunity to attend Sunday School with the other
kids, but soon took to picnicing by the river and seeing how many of
the sunday school kids we could persuade to join us
R
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15 Nov 2006 03:05:12 AM |
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DiViDeD wrote:
V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before
turning to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It
seemed the more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made
any sense. My parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants
from Italy and catholic as so forth down the line.
V
No religious background. My father was a lapsed baptist (that's the
Welsh Free Chapel kind, not the deep south orange toupee, screaming at
the microphone type), my mother was (and is) a Scottish Free Thinker
and athiest who was blamed by my grandmother for 'perverting' her son.
My early life was scattered with visiting philosophers, painters,
musicians (hey, my dad did a studio session with Eric Clapton for the
beeb), scientists (Fred Hoyle had been my mother's boss for years) and
assorted weirdos.
Okay. Clapton *and* Hoyle? Now you know we're not going to let you out
of here without a couple of good stories...<g>
we were given the opportunity to attend Sunday School with the other
kids, but soon took to picnicing by the river and seeing how many of
the sunday school kids we could persuade to join us
You put the Evil in the EAC..er, or would if it existed, of course.
Well done.
-Panama Floyd, Atl.
aa#2015, Member Knights of BAAWA!
EAC Martian Commander
Plonked by Kadaitcha Man, Sep 06
"..the prayer cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next."
-Mark Twain
Religious societies are *less* moral than secular ones:
http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html
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| User: "Neil Kelsey" |
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14 Nov 2006 11:25:43 AM |
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V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
Dragged to Sunday school 3 times, hated the songs, thought God was
repulsive, refused to go ever again.
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| User: "Bill M" |
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14 Nov 2006 03:32:11 PM |
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"Neil Kelsey" <neil_kelsey@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1163525143.351352.257110@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
Dragged to Sunday school 3 times, hated the songs, thought God was
repulsive, refused to go ever again.
I was raised a Catholic, went through a Catholic Grade school and High
school
but saw how ridiculous these beliefs were when I was exposed to the real
world in College.
I have been a happy atheist for over 60 years. I am now an 81 year old that
no god has not messed with.
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| User: "Neil Kelsey" |
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14 Nov 2006 03:56:11 PM |
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Bill M wrote:
"Neil Kelsey" <neil_kelsey@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1163525143.351352.257110@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
Dragged to Sunday school 3 times, hated the songs, thought God was
repulsive, refused to go ever again.
I was raised a Catholic, went through a Catholic Grade school and High
school
but saw how ridiculous these beliefs were when I was exposed to the real
world in College.
I have been a happy atheist for over 60 years. I am now an 81 year old that
no god has not messed with.
I watched a documentary last night about the recent sexual abuse of
some children in Irish Catholic schools. There was a Priest who was
charged and committed suicide just before he was convicted, but that
isn't the most appalling part. The Catholic church had known this guy
was a pedophile, and moved him around from parish to parish. It seems
they had a policy of secrecy, and would make everybody concerned swear
unto god to keep these cases quiet, including the terrorized child
victims. They revised this policy about twenty years ago, and
essentially the changes were to keep it secret still, and that they had
a pool of money with which to pay the victims off (if they had to). The
author of the revised policy was the present Pope Ratzinger.
Anyway, I'm curious about your Catholic school experience. What was the
level of education? Were you taught science? Were you taught science in
a biased way? To what extent did religion enter the classroom? Were the
teachers competent? What happened in college that made you become an
atheist?
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| User: "stoney" |
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22 Nov 2006 12:10:30 PM |
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:32:11 -0500, "Bill M" <wmech@bellsouth.net> wrote
in alt.atheism
"Neil Kelsey" <neil_kelsey@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1163525143.351352.257110@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
Dragged to Sunday school 3 times, hated the songs, thought God was
repulsive, refused to go ever again.
I was raised a Catholic, went through a Catholic Grade school and High
school
but saw how ridiculous these beliefs were when I was exposed to the real
world in College.
I have been a happy atheist for over 60 years. I am now an 81 year old that
no god has not messed with.
But what about Loki, or Coyote?...... ;)
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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14 Nov 2006 03:44:46 PM |
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V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
I was never religious. I was raised in a non-religious household. I
wasn't raised actively atheist, the subject of religion just never came
up.
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14 Nov 2006 08:52:30 PM |
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V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
V
Southern Baptist, baby! Yup, good ol' fire and brimstone "Rapture
Ready" full-tilt moron! Watch a Jimmy Swaggert show to see what
services were like. Started having doubts at 14, was told to shut up
and never mention them again. That actually helped, because I figured
it out on my own timescale-and they never had a chance to return me to
the flock because they never knew.
-Panama Floyd, Atl.
aa#2015, Member Knights of BAAWA!
EAC Martian Commander
Plonked by Kadaitcha Man, Sep 06
"..the prayer cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next."
-Mark Twain
Religious societies are *less* moral than secular ones:
http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html
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14 Nov 2006 01:22:03 PM |
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V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
Born atheist (like everyone else on the planet). Raised by a Methodist
mother and Swedish Lutheran father (who I found out was an atheist
after his death), neither of whom were church-going. Spent two and a
half years as a pre-teen in a Methodist home for children which
was...not pleasant (in a way Bernard Law would have approved of). As a
teenager, I went to a gifted-talented school run by the Piarist
Fathers, an Eastern European Catholic order little known in the United
States, dedicated to children's education. It was under their superb
educational system that I realized that I was an atheist. Raised my
children as freethinkers.
Rich Goranson
temporarily in Lafayette, IN, USA
aa#MCMXCIX, a-vet#1
EAC Department of Cruel and Unusual Choreography
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14 Nov 2006 10:29:10 PM |
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V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
I was baptized "against my will" at the age of 5 days. Nominally raised
catholic, I never believed, even though I spent 6 years (age 5 to 11)
in a catholic boarding school. According to my mom, I drove the nuns
bonkers with my stunning and cunning hability to flee and disregard any
religious activities.
Olrik
V
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14 Nov 2006 11:10:56 AM |
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V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
Methodist/Baptist, drifted away from regular services in my teen
years, but for me it was more of a "it never made any sense"
and it took me until then to realize that it was normal and
reasonable to have that opinion.
--
Walt Smith
Firelock on DALNet
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14 Nov 2006 11:48:44 AM |
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V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
Raised Conservative Baptist. Was Catholic for 5 minutes during first
marriage.
Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
skyeyes at dakotacome dot net
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| User: "Nosterill" |
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15 Nov 2006 07:26:23 AM |
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V wrote:
What is your background as to religious beliefs (if any) before turning
to atheism? My background was 50+ years a s a catholic. It seemed the
more I studied the bible, the less the idea of God made any sense. My
parents were catholic and their parents were immigrants from Italy and
catholic as so forth down the line.
Raised strict C of E. Suddenly (literally minutes) realised it was a
pile of poo in my early teens. Nearly forty years an atheist.
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