re why do people become atheists let me tell you my story i grew up catholic up until i was it wasn t an issue for me then i met a born again christian a very sweet person not proseletyzing sp not imposing i tried to get into being as christian as i could as i felt i should but the more i tried the more depressed i got i felt guilty for some of my own personal honest feelings i tried so hard to reconcile this conflict until i was then i taught myself to think rationally i read a lot of books pro and con religion in general and specifically catholicism i came to a crisis point then it finally clicked and now i am a staunch atheist this is a very loose explanation but it s the gist of it now at i feel better about myself better self esteem a generally stronger person i have well defined goals i have a strong and stable sense of morals and values i am not a neo nazi or a corrupt politicain etc i believe in human rights and live and let live among other things i am very anti violent and anti hatred this is to debunk the myth that atheists are depraved religion has no place in my system tough bertrand russell said that we cannot know god doesn t exist we can t prove it so in that sense we can only truly be agnostic but for all practical purposes there is no god thanqs ken engel kene acs bu edu
