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Permalink Reply by Clary Fernell on December 29, 2011 at 10:01pm

Still Catholic, actually

/pretty pointless comment. But.

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Permalink Reply by Teri G on December 30, 2011 at 7:11am

So you're a theist?

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Permalink Reply by AMBELLINA on January 1, 2012 at 2:46pm

For me it was when I allowed myself to doubt in the first place.  That opened a door or a window or whatever for me to actually look at other options.  I had always doubted, since I was a child none of it made sense, but I wouldn't even admit it to myself for fear of god hearing my thoughts and spitting me out of his mouth someday.  lol.  Once I allowed myself that freedom to doubt, I started learning about all the other religion(s) of the world (from the world instead of from the xtian community/church.)  I allowed myself to realize that the bible-god was just one of many beliefs and it was unlikely that it happened to be the right one, but I was still afraid to actually admit that to myself.  I still wanted to believe and not burn in a possible hell so I started thinking that maybe just the book was wrong, but there still was a god or something out there.  

I think the final thing that hit me and pushed me to be this 6/7 atheist that I am today was the realization that I had been asking god to help me for twenty years and he never did.  Science has helped me more in a week than god did in all the years I could form words into prayer. 

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