https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/category/atheism-2/testimonial/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/10/07/why-i-am-an-atheist-schwag/
Why I am an atheist – Schwag
I’m an atheist because of a nun.
I went to Catholic school, Kindergarten until third grade.
One morning, when I was in first grade, I was called to the front of the class by the teacher, who was a nun. Three or four other students were called up as well.
Sister told the class that she hadn’t seen us at church the previous Sunday. I don’t remember what her point was for doing it.
All I remember thinking is ‘This is bullshit.”
I was 6 years old.
Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t have an epiphany. But it got the ball rolling.
Schwag
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Thursday, April 9, 2020
I found this and many other stories like it at the PZ Myers website.
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