That's what I always tell people. I had 12 years of Catholic education. I'm convinced there is nothing in this world that could've made me less religious than all the stuff we read and studied.
I laugh when I hear “converted” to atheism. My brother in allah, it’s not a religion to “convert” to, you just realize the bullshit and walk away from it.
The theory of evolution proves that organisms which perceive fitness are more successful and more prolific than organisms which perceive truth. Thus, it is a scientific fact that the world we perceive is not a depiction of truth. I think religious people who believe reality is real are fools.
Yes, atheism is not a belief, it's a realisation. One day you realise that you don't believe, that you are simply not convinced.
You don't decide to be an atheist, you don't belief in atheism, you simply can't make yourself belief something that you are not convinced of. It's not in your control, you haven't been provided with sufficient (or any) evidence and realise that the label of atheist accurately describes your state of mind.
I remember being ignorant to religion. slowly noticing the holes and the bull-shittery of the doctrine with the more I learned about it. religions thrive off of ignorance.
I grew up religious and went to religious schools until college. We were tasked with proving the holy book was correct in highschool. Guess what part of this comment made me not religious. It wasn't college.
Hot take: atheism, in some of its acceptions, is a religion. Not all atheist are this way, but too many are simply with the belief that no god exists and that faithful people cannot be right and that what their doing is wrong.
The problem with that belief is that it's as intolerant and hateful as the most fanatical believers. And religion wars never have been a good thing.
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That’s not hateful or intolerant. Hateful and intolerant isn’t disagreeing with you or even vocalizing a belief that you’re wrong. It’s certainly not voicing that a religion is harming others (I.e. wrong).