Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: Does anyone remember when you became an unbeliever? [View all]rurallib
(63,201 posts)taught by nuns mostly. Had many fears instilled in me.
Many things happened from 7th - 12th grade that chipped, chipped, chipped away at the lies they told me.
- Molested by priest at 13 and spent 2 years hiding while he pursued me - parents took his side.
- ate meat on a Friday at my part time job - didn't die and go to hell.
- missed a Sunday mass and didn't die and go to hell
- dated many non-Catholic girls - didn't die and go to hell.
- married one of them - pretty much gone from the church by then.
After HS was pretty much non-religious. When I would think about religion it was mostly negative but not fully atheist.
But when the tool of the devil - the internet - came around and I had some time I started looking for answers to questions I had had for decades. After @ a year I was well over to the atheist side.
As someone upthread had done I also started watched atheist you tubes landing mostly on Atheist Experience. They really helped clear up many, many questions.