Brand new atheist here!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

41. Hi there minivan!

When I lived in the city I went to the Unitarian-Universalist church. That is the only church I will set foot in and it is because it is explicitly non-Christian. They welcome the questioning, the atheist, the agnostic, the pagan. They have lots of discussion groups. I have been a UU since 1979. They are unique in having a non-creedal religion. You don't have to stand up and say you believe in anything, and thereby feel like a fool.


Later I went back to church and tried to be a Christian and decided it was a harmful, worthless scam.


Now that I have retired to the country I have no atheist friends except my husband which I met at a large urban UU church. Lots of nice atheist boys and girls. The only spirituality allowed around here is certain forms of Protestantism, Baptist, Methodist or fundy Ass of God or independent bible-thumping churches with ignorant preachers. Mormons and Catholics are quite suspect.

I've already been told once that I am going to hell. Conservative Christians are not nice people and they hate anyone who is different from them. They don't know us so they will make shit up.

I was raised Presbyterian and went to a Presbyterian college. I have a lot of respect for Presbys because I learned to think in college and they are well educated. And they don't go around trying to convert people or jabbering all the time about Gawd.


My grandmother who was a Methodist nagged my mother to get me baptised even after I was grown. As it turned out, my grandmother, my mom and dad were all atheists when they died. They believed there was nothing after death, and that was fine for them.


My daughter is an agnostic and her BF is an atheist Hindu and I'm down with that. I study Buddhism and Hinduism for some perspective and if I took the vows and became a Buddhist I would still be an atheist.



Glad to have you. There are certain theists here who are disingenuous and dodge questions about the irrationality of their beliefs. They can't give good explanations for their irrationality, so there is no point in arguing with them. They are quite sensitive and you are not supposed to ask them the difference between their belief in god and belief in the Tooth Fairy, Santa or the Easter Bunny. Declaring that they believe in irrational fairy tales is considered insulting, even though it's the truth.

Some of them try to be warm and fuzzy and welcoming to everyone but it is a smokescreen. I've been chased out of the Interfaith group and told to watch my language when I WAS watching my language. And I wouldn't go into Religion/Religion either.


"I don't want to believe. I want to KNOW." -- Carl Sagan