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rug

(82,333 posts)
Wed May 18, 2016, 06:28 AM May 2016

My Awkward Conversion Story

May 16, 2016
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Confession: I feel weird when people around me talk about their “how did I convert to atheism/secular humanism” stories.

Most go like “I was involved in such-and-such religion for blah years and then I read this book/listened to this podcast/observed some non-believing person in my life”, which is inspiring and awesome and should be shared with the world.

…and I’m sitting there like, “Officially? I was 12. Read the Bible from front to back. It didn’t mention dinosaurs. None of the Bible stories I was told made sense.”

Not bragging. Just, it’s weird. It’s probably why I never had much of a connection or respect for the Four Horsemen. I didn’t touch any of their books until I started getting into atheist activism.

http://the-orbit.net/seriously/2016/05/16/awkward-conversion-story/

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My Awkward Conversion Story (Original Post) rug May 2016 OP
IIRC getting bored and a lack of dinosaurs is why I left the Boy Scouts MisterP May 2016 #1
In sixth grade the nuns drafted us into the Boy Scouts. rug May 2016 #2

MisterP

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1. IIRC getting bored and a lack of dinosaurs is why I left the Boy Scouts
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:43 PM
May 2016

also I didn't want to change into the uniform

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
2. In sixth grade the nuns drafted us into the Boy Scouts.
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:32 PM
May 2016

They said it would keep us out of trouble.

Eight weeks later, they threw us all out.

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