val
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Post by val on Jan 6, 2014 19:14:37 GMT
Anyone else?
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Post by ComradeCommissar on Jan 6, 2014 19:53:52 GMT
Right here as well. I had grown up in a fundamentalist Christian family, and after I left home, worked to break free from the brainwashing for years. I developed an appreciation for Buddism, Paganism, and other forms of spirituality, but in the end, I found reason and a healthy amount of scientific skepticism and dialectical thinking to be what made the most sense to me.
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Post by allie on May 12, 2014 6:10:07 GMT
Yes, me too. Also from fundie right wing repub family. Lucky for me I have a brain and left that all behind. Years of discontent and agnosticism then I read Bishop John Spongs book, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, and he articulated what I had come to believe. So called Christians are sick, brain washed, and I cable of reason, many of them, but I am proof there is hope for the uneducated dupes.
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Post by allie on Dec 1, 2014 16:44:39 GMT
Just you and me here, still. Wonder how to promote this site. I use Facebook, and am not too savvy about understanding twitter, or this iPad app, for that matter!
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Post by auntjet on Apr 20, 2020 22:16:36 GMT
I was raised in an atheist family by default as they, family of origin, did not promote atheism but lived it. Christmas was Santa only, in school we learned of fake Jesus birth and songs and were not allowed to be in plays.In the summer my mother would send us to vacation bible school to get us out of our hair. When we came home she quizzed us and repeatably told us everything they said was make believe, just silly stories. The songs they taught us were not to be sung within her hearing. She gave us kids song books and told us to sing them instead. I grew up thinking the bible was lies. I still believe that. Barb grew up Christian but has since let it go, much to her families chagrin. I corrupted her, lol.
I was allowed to attend any church I wanted to from 5th grade on with friends. I went with my best friend at the time because her dad was a doctor and we went to his club after and the buffet was awesome. My empathy and chakras were beginning to open up at that age and one day in church I observed that the people in the church believed dying of torture on a cross was a good thing. I could sense their sick emotions and beliefs and I was so horrified and sickened by the torture that I quit going, even the buffet wasn't worth it any more.
Easter grosses me out to this day, screw chocolate bunnies.
I do not believe in God, hell, Lucifer and definitely not in sin or being saved.
I do have spiritual beliefs in Mother Nature, the Earth we live on is alive, I believe in the Goddess as living and breathing in women and their bodies, hearts and spirits. But there is no deity watching over us.
When I lived in Houston a few years back I was a member of a weekly atheist meet up. They taught me a lot.
I've always believed in science, I love math, I grew up believing I would one day work for Starfleet. Clung to that a long time. Went to conventions. Good old days. lol
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Post by auntjet on Apr 20, 2020 22:26:15 GMT
oh and the subject of getting new members here, i do twitter mostly for supernatural fan content but have found some left thinkers. i will promote this forum there. i only have a tiny set of followers do to my age but i will keep putting it out there i rarely tell anyone I'm a prepper But I will. So far all the prepper sites ive been to lean right, crazy right i stay away from.
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