Quote of the Day, Department of Religious Affairs

[bloodyrosemccoy]

“When I say I realized I was an atheist when I was a teenager, I’m simplifying things a bit, because I was always an atheist. My big revelation wasn’t so much a realization that I was an atheist as it was a realization that other people weren’t.”

This quote was brought to you by our discussions of churchgoing at work. My coworker was totally cool with my being an atheist, because he’s one too, but he was also puzzled by the idea that I had been raised that way. Who knew atheism could be the default setting?

Comments

[cougarfang.livejournal.com]

I assume you're the one speaking in that quote?

At one point I was talking to the vet tech in charge of the spay-and-neuter clinic of the MDSPCA, and we got on the topic of religion, and I was explaining to him how my parents raised the family entirely areligious except for the yearly Chinese New Year temple visit to appease my paternal grandma (mostly because they were too lazy to be actively any-sort-of-religious) and he boggled at me like I'd sprouted a Martian out of my ear. For him it was a tough struggle to throw off the confines of his Catholic upbringing (getting to atheism "uphill both ways in the snow, barefoot") and it was just incredible to him that I could "attain Nirvana" without a second thought. XD;;

_{apologies for the horrendous religious mixaphor >_>;;}

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm the speaker there.

People always assume that atheism is arrived at after learning religion. Not growing up religious never even occurs to them.