Post by GodsAreUs on Apr 20, 2005 17:07:43 GMT -5
Hi everybody! I moved my response to the newbie inqiry here for your perusal. I hope to have many stimulating discussions with you folks in the future.
1. I feel I've been an atheist most of my life. I never managed to "grok" religion. I've raised (and continue to raise) a lot of ires with the christian majorities around me. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just ask a lot of questions.
2. I was baptized Methodist.
3. See #1. Also, the more I thought (and think) about it, the more I see religion as an elaborate form of social control that preys upon a frightened and easily-led public. Don't get me started! (at least not in a "hello there" thread).
4. Google. For reasons I can't explain, I have been perusing a rapture message board... maybe hoping to convince those folks to at least take an un-biased look at what they're saying. I left feeling sad. They seem more lost than me! I typed "Atheist message board" into Google and this was the first site to pop.
I'm from the upper midwest, USA.
Peace all and thanks for having me.
1. I feel I've been an atheist most of my life. I never managed to "grok" religion. I've raised (and continue to raise) a lot of ires with the christian majorities around me. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just ask a lot of questions.
2. I was baptized Methodist.
3. See #1. Also, the more I thought (and think) about it, the more I see religion as an elaborate form of social control that preys upon a frightened and easily-led public. Don't get me started! (at least not in a "hello there" thread).
4. Google. For reasons I can't explain, I have been perusing a rapture message board... maybe hoping to convince those folks to at least take an un-biased look at what they're saying. I left feeling sad. They seem more lost than me! I typed "Atheist message board" into Google and this was the first site to pop.
I'm from the upper midwest, USA.
Peace all and thanks for having me.
