Thread: Any Atheists Here..?

What I would like to do here is give a platform for people to tell their stories about how they lost faith and came to be whatever they want to call themselves – skeptics, agnostics, agnostic atheists, just atheists, anti-theists, people who think, to call themselves atheists would give too much credit to a silly idea – just as you don’t define yourself as an a-unicornist – or whatever else takes your fancy.

Or to share material – articles, pictures, videos – have you listened to a fascinating debate lately? Or just simply watched a science-video, which you think, would fit nicely?

But I also want to invite religious people warmly to tell their stories and explain what and why they believe. I hope we might come to create a space to exchange ideas, debate topics and openly disagree with each other, too. But please – everything in a respectful manner – I would find it exceedingly sad, if this thread went down an unsavoury road. I promise not to bite, and I guess we will generally manage to stay out of trouble in here.

Maybe we even come to change one or the other mind in the process, broaden each others horizons - but at the least we can hang out together, whatever that might come to mean.

I have a lot, really a lot I could post – like my own story, which is on here in parts already elsewhere, so I will eventually copy-paste-edit that over. I have some material and ideas, which didn't come to their moments in another thread, for example my arguments against Deism. Ha – and even one for the possibility of us actually being in a created universe – but not created by a “supernatural” being. And it’s nothing to escape the problem of infinite regress either.
Then I have a beautiful interpretation aid to John 3.16 and my home-made Flying Spaghetti Monster and, and, and...

But I guess I just start out with this lovely leaflet for children on what to do if they find an atheist and then just give on over to you!