http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/09/16/585/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Mon, 06 May 2013 16:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/09/16/585/comment-page-1/#comment-2617 Akane Sat, 14 May 2011 15:55:45 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2007/09/16/585/#comment-2617 I had a similar kind of thing…. I was brought up in a CoE school, and when I was little I was really devoutly Christian. I am ashamed of that now, and have never been able to look back at Christianity without feeling furious, because they brainwashed me and stuff. And also because when I finally realised God didn’t exist, I got bullied for it by Christians. I am never, ever going to be able to forgive religion for that, and this makes me sad, because I would prefer to be able to be friends with Christians, rather than having all this emotional hurt that makes it hard to be friends with anybody.
So anyway, I never bothered really telling anybody. My parents hadn’t really contributed to the whole being brought up Christian kind of thing, they didn’t encourage or discourage me, that was mostly the school.
So I kind of like didn’t bother telling them. I got rid of all the Christian stuff around me and started just raising an eyebrow when people starting going on about religious stuff rather than agreeing, and I think they just gradually realised I was an atheist.
Well, I’m not an atheist as such, I’m actually a Falrian, but yeah…. same logic.

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