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How I Became an Atheist

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Uploaded by on Jan 26, 2008

This vid describes my transition from a fundamentalist Baptist up bringing to my current Atheistic world view. I hope that those struggling with the same questions might hear my story and take heart that they are not alone and that the logical conclusion that you are struggling against is not as bleak as you may think.

I mention several books here are links:

"The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&lin...

"At Home in the Universe" by Stuart Kauffman: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195111303?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&lin...

"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199291152?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&lin...

"God is not Great" by Christopher Hitchens: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446579807?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&lin...

"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618918248?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&lin...

Other books that lead me down this path:
"Godel Escher Bach" by Douglas R. Hofstadter: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465026567?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&lin...

"The Emporer's New Mind" by Roger Penrose & Martin Gardner: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000YB8I7W?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&lin...

"Wrinkles in Time" by George Smoot & Keay Davidson: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061344443?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&lin...

"The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375708111?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&lin...

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  • When someone asks me whether I believe in god, I say "Which one?'

  • thumbs up if u are an athiest

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  • @lion575 In other words all your saying is a god designed it. How smart....fail

  • I don't have a godly religion because there are 1,000s of godly religions and all believe in a different way to go to "heaven." I don't believe in god because he's very absent and there is no good reason to believe a god exists. I don't believe in destiny because we have control over our decisions. I don't believe in divine intelligence because it's random chance with a label people attach meaning to.

  • @christallh24 i'm really glad to have that kind of support :) although i do secretly wish i had the entire world's support. there would be nothing but peace and unity <3

  • @christallh24 this is funny because my grandpa (and dad) encouraged me to be skeptic when i questioned the religion my mom raised me into (christianity). i asked many questions, and my grandpa (who has read the entire bible many times and studied many many other books throughout his long life) helped me out a lot in letting go of that fear of "displeasing god" and becoming a happy, free, and more logic individual and accept that god is an imaginary "filler" of the unknown.

  • Thx for sharing yer story, I went through a whole lot of head scratching, watching all kinds of videos from newage to UFO ~oligy on you tube, then i said screw this, if god and ufo's exist, he/they have got to show up and "stand Before Me" im still waiting,& its alot easier now to deal with all this crazy superstitous, supernatural BS.. I just finished reading the Demon Haunted world today...

  • God holds mankind responsible for sins he knew we would commit before the foundation of the world, then sends his son to die in a blood sacrifice to save us from a punishment he first implemented to in turn save us from a hell he created.

    To use a term maybe over used- CHECK MATE!

    God's gift of free will only keeps Gods hands clean of responsibility for knowing most of us would burn in hell for "sins" he knew we would commit before time and space began.

  • This is pretty much how it happened for me, logically.

  • Thank you so very much for sharing your story with us! I've been an atheist since my grandma told me I don't question or doubt dog, oh, excuse me, I mean...god. I was five at the time. ;~) So, I don't really remember at time in my life when I may have had a god belief. It's kinda why I've been hooked on de-conversion stories. It's truly hard for me to understand how religious people believe this stuff.

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    - hey mr. Physicist, the Plank's Constant is not that constant at all, ya should know better than that;

    - " ideas like global warming that have no scientific basis come up." psst let me tell you another secret, .. Global warming affects both flora and fauna so biologists lnow what they are talking about.

    "Then we have a bunch of uneducated idiots armed with a little scientific knowledge running around spewing false ideas."

    ... hahaha, you've just described yourself "mr. youtube physicist"

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