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- From: west@next02cville.wam.umd.edu (Stilgar)
- Subject: Re: Whay atheists?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.212857.12407@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:28:57 GMT
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- I've read your question and a few responses, and I have a similiar
- story, strict Christian upbringing (I was even an Alter Boy in my local
- church) and became a Roman Catholic (to the umpteenth degree). I later
- started questioning the basis of the religion (sorry, but 50% of the Bible
- doesn't hold water, and the rest is historical or "storybook" text).
- I finally decided to break off of the Christian bandwagon after I
- attended a class during my freshman year here at UMCP, the class was
- Philosophy, God and the Cosmos. My proffesser was a devout athiest and
- made no attempt to hide it. I later discussed with him many of my
- problems with ESTABLISHED RELIGION (sorry everybody for the harsh
- vulgarities there, it was necessary). He reccomended that I make up my
- own mind by reading up on the basis of the religion and the questions
- other people have published on the subject. I was soon convinced of my
- shortsightedness on the topic of religion, and became an agnostic. Later
- I decided that my doubts continued even further, and decided on athiesm.
- My current belief is that if (??) a supreme being exists, I highly
- doubt that IT (not he, by the way, I doubt a supreme being has a penis)
- had anything to do with any current religious literature, nor do I think
- that it would be at all interested in our worshipfull nature, or in our
- following a list of ten, or a hundred THOU SHALT NOT's.
-
-
- Brian
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