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So, here I am, listening to Sabbath and getting annoyed at the internet folks again. I am not an atheist because I hate Yahweh. I cannot hate something I dont believe exists. I am not an atheist because I read the works of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris of the late Christopher Hitchens. I grew up without religion. I was always an atheist. I was an atheist before knowing that Dawkins or the like existed, let alone reading their works. I was seven years old when I can up with a rudimentary hypothesis of evolution by means of natural selection, I had not yet discovered Charles Darwin. I went to a Church of england school. I told them I wasnt a believer and they accepted that. I bought by first bible when I was nine. I still have it and I love it. The reason for buying it and my affection for it comes from it being published in the early 1920s, not from the words inside. When I read the book I did not feel enlightened, I felt sickened. It was filled with mostly words of hate. Sure, theres the odd nice bit, but the nice bits are aimed at very specific groups, it spews general hate at everyone else. I always saw Christian stories as fables, the same as those written by Aesop. They were read to me at the same time and I found the latter made more sense than anything coming from the bible. So no. I do not lack a belief in your religion because I hold a grudge. I lack a belief in your religion because it seemed silly to me when I was at an age when crapping myself wasnt out of the ordinary and it remains just as absurd a notion today.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:44:20 +0000

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