Here is some stuff about me so you guys can get to know me a little bit if you want.
By late 1997, when I was 17 and a junior at my high school, I stated believing in religion and the holy bibles much less than I use too. There was question that I have asked about the bible from my parents and former christian friends. Something in the bible and in the religions itself that didn't make any sense to me. For instance, why would god (according to the bible) say thou shalt not kill in one place and in the other, he destroyed a nation full of men women and children (Joshua 6:21 as an example) for no good reason, or if there was a reason, it didn't make any since? Most of everyone I asked come up with either outrageous far-fetched claims that doesn't exist in the bible, or just dismiss the question I am asking by saying something like "Because God can do anything he damn well please?". That is all fine and dandy, but none of those statements didn't answer my question much. Then there are more stuff in religion and the holy bible that didn't make much sense to me either, like the existence of Jesus Christ, outrageous stories like a man turing into pillars of salt, the noah flood story, etc. There was also some stuff that religious people such as christians did that didn't make any sense to me either. For example, why do they support free will, but them go around and try to force people to be in their religious beliefs? Therefore, around Sept of 1997, I became an agnostic (not an atheist yet). Honestly, I didn't know if christianity and their bibles were full of lies or not, but based on what I seen people do in that religion and the bibles themselves, I decided not to take them so seriously until they can be straight with me and tell be bout their religion into something that I can understand (fat chance of course).
Still, back then I did decided to give christianity some more chances into proving that their religion should be taken seriously. I didn't really have any convincing proof that they were absolutely wrong and I wasn't certain that if there was some sort of creator that created the universe, the earth, human life, etc out of nowhere.
However, fast forward to the summer of 1999. Some old high school friends of mine that are now atheist, and some friends of mine on the internet like on the usenet discussion groups, told me some convincing stuff on why they use to be in certain religions and spiritual beliefs like christianity, muslims, hindus, etc., but didn't like anything in that religion, because of it's contradictory nature based on the bible, a contradictory book, and outrageous stuff that the church made them do like do some rituals that would get them baptized (don't ask me to describe those rituals please). They even showed me some contradictions in the bible, and showed me about other stuff that some christian churches probably didn't want you to know about, like the fact that christianity could be plagerized from other religions and myths like the egyptian mythology of instance, the fact that the bible have violence in it like incest, rape, murder, plunder, etc. Some of it probably worse than anything you see in movies, T.V.'s, music, and video games, and so on.
I didn't just took their word for it, I did do some research of my own just to confirm if their story was true or not. I did, for instance, read some of the stupid stories in the bible like the Noak Arc stories and wondered why most christians would take a story like this serious because there is no way in hell that an event like this could possibly happen. Also, if any event such as that in the bible was true, then why doesn't it happen again? There are many other reasons that I started regretting the day i became a christian in the first place that I won't mention here because I think all of you got my point.
After all of this, by the end of June 1999, I was an atheist. I nevered look and christianity, ever again. I did looked at other religions, but dropped them out of my life as well.
Well I guess that is all I can say about me!
