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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (2124)	1/22/2001 8:57:09 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I decided that I was an atheist at around the age of 12, but I think it was less a matter of deciding that I didn't believe - and my parents were quite religious - than of realizing that I had never really believed. My, you were precocious. I didn't think that 12 year olds had the reasoning capacity to come to such a monumental conclusion. At 12 I was still internalizing the implications of their being no Santa Claus and was still entertaining thoughts of becoming a nun. Maybe there is a gene. If so, I don't have it. My earliest recollection of incipient atheism was my freshman year in high school when my world history text condescendingly made reference to earlier religions as primitive superstitions. I recall wondering what made the text writer so sure that modern religions weren't superstitions as well. It was several years before I concluded that that was, indeed, the case. That is not exactly "all their lives" in the sense that it would be if the people in question were raised as atheists. I think it's fair to paraphrase "83% of the Hard Core Atheists say they never believed in God" as "atheists tended to have been such all their lives." Seems pretty straight-forward to me. Yes, the study definitely was strange. Karen