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]

Yeah, I guess it helped a lot that I grew up in Taiwan (i.e. not The Kingdoms of Christiandom - though there were some Christians around, as an actual minority) and that I had books on Norse, Egyptian, and Greek mythology alongside a copy of a children's Bible and Grimm's fairytales.

See also: this.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

That link is one of the explanations I try to pull out. Doesn't always work. ;)

I had books on Norse, Egyptian, and Greek mythology alongside a copy of a children's Bible and Grimm's fairytales.

I did, too--and I put them all in the same category! That was where my troubles all began ...