trillian

I've posted a few things but didn't know about this intro board. Hoping I can spend time here and learn a few things!!

User name is from the Douglas Adams' HHGTG. Love all those books.

Anyway, I'm pretty much a lifelong atheist despite 17 years of Catholic education. Actually never really believed, then when the nuns finally admitted in High School that some of the stories were just made up to illustrate a point... nail+coffin.
In college I realized that most of the Jesuit priests I knew weren't really into all the supernatural mumbo jumbo either. It is more of a lifestyle choice for them I think. They actually taught us the errancy of the Bible in class. Go figure.

Most people I know don't care about religion at all, they are "nothing". Don't even think about it. They just live their lives.

I used to think that it was no harm if other people had beliefs- their business- but now I can see more the dangers of it...especially with Bush and his fundie friends. It started to scare me that my leaders actually believed in this stuff rather than just pandering to the masses. scary stuff.

One more thing I recently noticed about my bookshelf. All my fav authors Vonnegut, Adams, Sagan, Creighton, Ayn Rand, Stephen King, Gould, AC Clarke.... ALL non-believers!! I wonder if Dostoyevsky was too?

Oh and I'm Fem. 32 single (but shacking up).

cliff999

I had much the same experience. I went to a catholic high school where a nun stated that much of the Exodus could be explained as natural phenomena and not miracles. Now, of course, that explanation is just as far-fetched to me as the miracle one, but it was the first time I heard anything different outside the usual church line. I took that thought, ran with it, and a few years later (sophomore in college, actually) reached what to me was a logical conclusion.