Your Stories of Atheism: Getting Rid of God
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Your Stories of Atheism: Because You Don’t Gotta Have Faith
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Your Stories of Atheism: Losing My Religion
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Your Stories of Atheism: On Cognitive Dissonance, A Judged Son & The Loss Of A Daughter
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Your Stories of Atheism: Merry Christmakwanzakahsticeyule
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Your Stories of Atheism: Brothers Lost
This is an ongoing series featuring your stories of how you came to identify as an atheist. If you want to send me your story, you can submit it here. To read past stories, click here.First this week, a submission from Wales, from “Welshman”:The next is from Duncan:I grew up in a home with parents who were both Christians. They never went to church that often but at their insistence as well as the religious basis of our education system my brother and I were both altar boys in a Catholic denomin
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3 Reasons Why #NormalizeAtheism Is A Good Thing
This past Sunday, Mark joined Paul from the Quranify Me podcast on Thought Prophets to debate the value of the hashtag. Paul had previously posted a video of his own on YouTube more or less discussing what he did not like about #NormalizeAtheism.Now, before I go any further, I feel it necessary to point out that I adore Paul and the fact that I disagree with him on this in no way diminishes the fact that he is top notch people and the sort of person you want around for life. Paul was the only pe
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Your Stories Of Atheism: Slapping, Santa & Serial Killers
This is an ongoing series featuring your stories of how you came to identify as an atheist. If you want to send me your story, you can submit it here. To read past stories, click here.Our first story this week comes from Rob:Next, we have a story from Gusto:Raised (Irish) Catholic. Altar boy till age 18. Even played Jesus in Godspell for Chrissakes. Oh the priests wanted me, and my Dad joined in the conspiracy. I dodged priesthood but kept up a nominal belief without much examination for many ye
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Your Stories of Atheism: God Equals Zero
This is an ongoing series featuring your stories of how you came to identify as an atheist. If you want to send me your story, you can submit it here. To read past stories, click here.Our first story this week comes from Mario:I struggled with the concept of a god for a long time.Next, we have an anonymous submission:Although I wasn’t aware of the term atheist when I was 11 or 12, I knew that I didn’t buy into the Roman Catholic nonsense I was then being taught. During one wakeful moment in chur
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Your Stories of Atheism: A Wife Teaches Us What Supportive Really Means
This is an ongoing series featuring your stories of how you came to identify as an atheist. If you want to send me your story, you can submit it here. To read past stories, click here.You can follow me on the following to be updated when new stories are posted: Our first story this week is from an ex-Christian named Kirsten:My story is not terribly interesting. I was born into a nominally Christian family. My parents never took me to church, but I had to go occasionally with my gran whenever
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Your Stories Of Atheism: Diversity In Shedding God
This is an ongoing series featuring your stories of how you came to identify as an atheist. If you want to send me your story, you can submit it here. To read past stories, click here.This first one is short and sweet and pretty much exactly the same as my own story. It comes from Mitch:I was born atheist – as, incidentally, was everyone – and nothing’s ever happened to change that.
That’s all.Here’s another quick one from Dan,I read a lot as I kid. I was indoctrinated as a Roman Catholic. I r
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