Ex-religious people, how did you get out?

I snuck aboard a train heading for Finland, where I could spend the rest of my days in worship of our god Athe.

I guess things never really fit at all for me. The reality presented by my catholic teachers gave me a sense that the world is wonky and unknowable, and that we shouldn't even try to understand it. Not long after I became an internet nerd, I found a joke on a site saying that heaven and hell is just a concept parents came up with to order disobedient children. It was then that I realized that that scenario made much more sense. The veil of anti-curiosity was kept over me, but I think it was that moment that sparked my incredulity, leading to my eventual full-fledged Atheism.

Also, cocks.

does that mean you are now involved in Fag-theism as you so salted "Also, cocks."? Just kidding.
My idea of heaven and hell is still somewhat intangible, but none-the-less usable in my practices.
Hell=the result of inactivity being consumed by activity
Heaven=the result of consuming inactivity and thereby becoming active

Thus, if you don't do something, you will go to hell, if you do something, you go to heaven. Simple, Easy, Just Set IT and FORGET IT! As for jokes...What do you get when you cross jesus and me? Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to HELL.

Also, if you wish to make a contribution of nutnmouth complex, please turn 180 degrees towards RedCream, he's all ready for ya; I refuse to be the poster-child to his escallating constantpainshun.

>>1
I quit reading after I saw "snuck".
"Snuck" is not a word, Cletus.

When I was 5 or so: *looks up* "Fuck you, God."

*waits to be smitten*

Pretty much.

>>2
So, by being active and committing genocide, you can go to heaven, but sitting on a couch doing nothing results in hell?
lol wut?

After years of prayer I realized God was either the world's biggest asshole, or doesn't exist

indeed, behaving as if he did not exist

>>4
OK, "sneaked" then, you concrete walkin' sombitch

It's a simple rational problem:

Activity vs Inactivity
Actively committing Genocide(pulling the trigger) vs Inactively commiting Genocide (letting it happen).
Actively sitting on the couch(choosing to sit on the couch) vs Inactivly sitting on the couch(not choosing to do anything but sit on the damned couch).

U SIR R FAILYOUR!

...but it's not your fault, U R THE ACTIVE/INACTIVE RESULT OF FAILYOUR, BLAME THEM. *there, that's your scapegoatizm hard at work* you tell em, anon!

>>10
wut

>>11
eh?

Nothing indicated that God existed, much on the contrary, so i thought "starting today i won't believe in God, if he really exists and is so mercyful as they say, he will forgive me". That's it.

>>1
READING SCIENCE BOOKS BY MICHIO KAKU
STAY AWAY OF OLD LUNATIC RELIGIOUS CIRCLE FRIENDS
HANG OUT WITH SCIENCE NERDS

I realised that Christ was god incarnate and Muhammed probably just needed to cut down on the hashish. I now worship the Jesus.

>>15
READING SCIENCE BOOKS BY MICHIO KAKU
STAY AWAY OF OLD LUNATIC RELIGIOUS CIRCLE FRIENDS
HANG OUT WITH SCIENCE NERDS

It dawned on me that if you're born in Iran, you'll be a Muslim, if you are born in India, you'll be a Hindu, or if you are born in Spain you'll be a Catholic, it's not about who is right, but what your parents background is.

>>4
Who gives a shit you pretentious fuck?

I sure hope you don't correct me on how people don't normally give feces to others, or some shit.

>>4
Snuck is actually perfectly acceptable

>>18,19
lol. OK, Cleetus and Cecil, you just keep on usin' it then..

>>20
'Snuck' has been in use for over a century, you ignorant retard. It is in just about every English dictionary, with the only exceptions being certain British and Austrailian snobs. In American English, though, it is perfectly acceptable. A similar example is 'dived' vs 'dove'.

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>>21
A lot of improper words are in the dictionary. I believe you'll find "aint" in there too. I guess that makes it acceptable to use, huh?.....

Hey, the government doesn't wany you thinking.  Stop it.

>>21
>>American English
NOW DIALECTS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE CORRECT?
THE ONLY ENGLISH IS BRITISH

>>26
Over TWO THIRDS of English speakers worldwide use American English, you retard.

>>26
The Scottish dialect? The Welsh dialect? Received Pronunciation English? Cockney?

>>27
Native speakers, maybe, but people learning it as a second language are still taught the Queen's English in most of the world.

Pooped in the grail.

>>1
i saw the light

I stopped being a catholic when I found out Bush was one.

>>29
Actually, that hasn't been true since the end of World War II. Since the US established itself as a major economic and pop culture superpower, American English has become the most common dialect taught as a second or foreign language by far. British English is now somewhat down the list after various Indian and Asian dialects. Outside the UK, British English is really only used in certain British commonwealth countries for very formal writing and even then it is becoming less of a standard and more of a guideline.

('Course, due to the internet, all the world's languages will eventually blend together into some sort of meme-ridden Engrish 1337-speak, finally becoming a global standard in the year 2052 with a new point release version released every three years, which Microsoft will somehow come to monopolize and abuse, making this a moot point.)

When I was in Catholic school, my teacher told the class about some religious experience she had surviving a car-crash or something like that, and told us that before the end of the year, each of us would also have an experience that would prove to us the existence of God.

It didn't happen.  I've always been an analytical and logical person, maybe that's why. But I realized at a young age that it's only "the work of God" if you believe it is. And most of the time, I had a better explanation; one that supported a worldview that didn't leave me essentially powerless as to my own destiny.

And over the years, nothing's happened to reverse that. Of course, I do pray at times, but not the "right" way. It's more bargaining.  "'Sup, God.  If this thing I want happens, I'll believe in you."  And of course, it never does.  Because I only ask when it's something outlandish - wouldn't want to ask for something that could very well occur just of it's own accord - that wouldn't be proving anything.