The Yahoo crybabies vaporized this one:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151021183921AAQf8T7&sort=O

My 2nd attempt:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151022035324AA16XAp&sort=N

Normal people (aka atheists), was it easy or difficult for you to throw out the religious brainwashing?

Update: I asked this question yesterday but for some strange reason the entire thing was vaporized.

Update 2: Normal: free from any mental disorder; sane

I wrote my own answer:

There have been some complaints about the word normal. Here is the dictionary definition: 

Normal: free from any mental disorder; sane. 

Theism and agnosticism are mental disorders. Atheism is normal. 

There have been many best answers. Thanks everyone for your stories. I would like to tell my story. Here it is. 

I endured 8 years of intense religious brainwashing in a Catholic school, 1st grade thru 8th grade. 

When I was 18 In high school my girlfriend asked me "Why do you go to church?" The question shocked me because nobody had ever asked that question. I was speechless. I could not say anything. She changed the subject and that was the end of that. 

A few months later our Pastor, two Sundays in a row, spent the entire sermon explaining why it was important for us to donate more cash so he could send it to the very wealthy Vatican. That's when I realized the Catholic Church is a business and the customers are suckers. That was the last time I went to church. 

Because the brainwashing was for 8 years, it took me a long time to completely throw out the ridiculous god fantasy. Today I get it. God is just another word for magic. Magic is not real therefore magical beings are impossible.

Texas is infested with uneducated god-soaked science deniers. Bill Nye, the Science Guy coming to Midland, Texas.

I wrote this at a Texas news website:

"Texas is infested with uneducated god-soaked science deniers. They need to listen to Bill Nye talk about evolution which is the strongest fact of science."

http://www.mrt.com/top_stories/article_ee08aee0-7757-11e5-850b-fb3ebf8e3d7e.html

There is lots of Texas-Stupid in the comments.

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Darwin killed God.

"An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: 'I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.' I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist."
-- Richard Dawkins

More quotes in the left column of the Sandwalk blog.

Another person explained some of the problems with religion.

Indoctrination can be brutal..... For some, very traumatic.

Religion thrives on fear and guilt..... Religion lowers one's self esteem...
Religion does not encourage independent thinking..... 

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151019124919AAkM2OL

A question at Yahoo Answers: "Why do creationists refuse facts and evidence and constantly try to use the bible as a valid response when it holds no facts in itself?"

"Why do creationists refuse facts and evidence and constantly try to use the bible as a valid response when it holds no facts in itself?" 

The obvious answer is the science deniers are uneducated morons. They have other problems, especially their cowardly fear of reality, their refusal to educate themselves, and their breathtaking stupidity. 

Magical creationism is not just a moronic childish anti-science fantasy. It's a mental illness. And in most cases the brain damage is incurable. These Retards-For-Jeebus will waste their entire pathetic worthless lives never knowing what they are and where they came from. 

One more thing: The science that makes the god-soaked cry, evolution by natural selection and genetic drift, is the strongest fact of science. There is no other fact that has as much evidence as evolution has. The evidence from just DNA sequencing is overwhelming. The dipshits who deny the whole thing don't have any idea how much evidence they have to throw out to believe their ridiculous magical creation fantasy. 

The creationists disgrace the human race. They should not be allowed near children.

https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151018211256AAaqMWO&sort=N

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” -- Carl Sagan

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
-- Carl Sagan

Feeble-minded cowards and their disgusting fantasies.

A fucking idiot wrote:

Exactly! People in Jesus's day knew this too. Dead people stay dead. They weren't expecting Christ to arise from the grave. It was over. That is why it is so significant that they immediately began telling people  that he had risen from the grave, many of them going to death themselves for refusing to renounce that claim.

My reply:

Sir, magic is not real including a magical resurrection of a decomposing corpse. Your dead witnesses (gullible or invented, take your pick) does not change this basic fact of reality. There is no magic in the universe. Any unbrainwashed child could figure that out.

There is a thing called evidence. Throwing out reality is a fantastic claim that requires fantastic evidence. Dead witnesses are not evidence for anything.

In any case, even if they had YouTube videos of the magical event, it never happened. Reality is what it is. Reality is not ever going to go away.

It's ridiculous I have to explain these things in the 21st century.

All religions are bullsh!t fantasies for feeble-minded cowardly morons. Islam is currently the most violent cult. Muslim scum need to be wiped off this planet.

A mother smiles as she cuts her little boy's face with a knife.

If you're a Muslim retard get off my planet you worthless disgusting piece of crap.

I wrote this quote from the WSJ at the New York Times. We will see if it gets published. Liberal idiots like to blame the Jews for their terrorism problem, as if Muslim lunatics are the good guys.

I recently read about this interesting idea: "Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat urged licensed Israeli gun owners to carry their weapons and help defend civilians." Already this advice has saved lives except of course the terrorists were killed. From the same news article: "Four Palestinians were killed and one injured after carrying out five separate knife attacks in Israel on Saturday." It's terrible when people have to carry weapons to defend themselves but that's the way it is in Israel these days.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/world/middleeast/in-east-jerusalem-palestinians-are-seething-after-years-of-neglect.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/three-palestinians-killed-in-israel-as-attacks-continue-1445075302

There is lots of fucking stupid in Idiot America.

Idiot:
So how exactly do you know the Holy Spirit is not a fact ? And by the way, this belief did not start in the dark ages, but began from the very start of the Church with the words of Jesus Himself. So please enlighten me with your proof.

Normal person (aka me):
There is no chance I can convince you magical beings are not real. I've met your kind before. You people prefer wishful thinking instead of evidence. And that's what you need, evidence. It's your fantasy so it's your responsibility to provide evidence for it. I don't have to do anything to disprove your magic ghost for the same reason you don't have to disprove the idea there are pink elephants orbiting an asteroid in another galaxy.

However I will explain some things about reality. One of the most basic concepts of reality is "magic is not real". That means magical beings are impossible. For example leprechauns and all the magical beings invented by religions. Of course you will deny you believe in magic but everyone knows that's exactly what you people believe.

By the way your Jeebus is dead. It doesn't matter what he said because he was just a worthless preacher man, equal to worthless 21st century preachers, priests, and popes.

There is a lot of fucking religious stupidity at the Wall Street Journal.

"If any were to change it will call into question the very belief that the church is guided by the Holy Spirit and that the Church is infallible."

Sorry about this nitpicking but your "Holy Spirit" is just a fantasy. It's not real. Spirits, whether or not they are holy, do not exist. Leprechauns have the same problem.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-read-the-vatican-family-gathering-1444948185

I wrote several comments at this place. The stupidity, it burns.

Today's Agnes comic strip was about science and religion. I wrote 2 comments there.

Science killed religious stupidity in 1859 when Darwin published On the Origin of Species.

Faith is the process of believing in ridiculous childish nonsense that make cowards feel good.

http://www.gocomics.com/agnes/2015/10/15

A quote I found at the Agnes comic strip.

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
– Neil De Grasse Tyson, U.S. astrophysicist

http://www.gocomics.com/agnes/2015/10/13

A copy and paste job. "The evidence for human-ape common ancestry is overwhelming. The evidence in a nutshell comes from shared genetic errors - genetic plagiarism - which make perfect sense when you realise that a genetic error in two more species at the same place in their genomes is evidence for this error occurring in an ancestral species."

The fact of evolution as confirmed by genetics and genomics

As I point out on a regular basis, the evidence for human-ape common ancestry is overwhelming. The evidence in a nutshell comes from shared genetic errors - genetic plagiarism - which make perfect sense when you realise that a genetic error in two more species at the same place in their genomes is evidence for this error occurring in an ancestral species. Special creation has absolutely no answer for this, and it is telling that this fact is either ignored, or hand-waved away with risible explanations such as God cursing humans and apes in the same way after the fall. While the evidence for common descent was already overwhelming well before the genomics revolution began, the genomics data has underlined this fact emphatically.

To be honest, this blog has more than enough information to convince the intellectually honest, open-minded reader of the fact of evolution, so further material would appear to be redundant, but I have found that some respond better to video presentations. Computational geneticist Stephen Schaffner spoke at the recent Genesis Recast conference, outlining the genetic evidence for human evolution.

Unlike the poorly informed Christadelphian evolution denialists who are still desperately trying to convince themselves and others that evolution is false, Schaffner is an experienced, well-qualified biologist whose background and research well place him to comment authoritatively on this subject. For those who are searching for information on this, Schaffner's presentation is definitely worth the time.

YouTube: Dr. Stephen Schaffner, geneticist with the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, speaks on "The Origins of Humanity: What Genetics tells us about where we came from." Dr. Schaffner has a Ph.D. in particle physics from Yale University, and specializes in the genetics of natural selection. He is a believer in Jesus Christ.

Mr. Schaffner is Jeebus-soaked. He disgraces his profession. Fortunately, except for one sentence, he doesn't talk about it in the YouTube video. The first 5 minutes he talks about why the human ape species has different skin colors. The rest of it I haven't seen yet. It's 48 minutes. It's about evidence for evolution from genetics. He's good at it. I recommend this video.

http://christadelphianevolution.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-fact-of-evolution-as-confirmed-by.html

America needs to get rid of its oil-export ban. I wrote this comment at the Wall Street Journal.

"House Votes to Lift Oil-Export Ban"

Wonderful news because America is running out of places to store the excess oil. Drilling for oil will increase to meet demand so there should no problem about prices going up.

Of course Obama is against this and everything else that's good for our economy which is another reason to look forward to his retirement, as if another reason was necessary.

The Republican Party needs to double down on winning the election to prevent another 8 years of government infested with liberals. That means the social conservatives (aka fake conservatives) should get out of the way. Their priorities are wrong. The social conservatives will make the Republicans lose the election if they have their way. The only things that matter are the economy and foreign policy.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/house-votes-to-lift-oil-export-ban-1444411778

A fucking asshole Christian terrorist likes to threaten people with his moronic cowardly magical hell fantasy. I explained the fucktard's disease.

What's your evidence for your magical life after dropping dead? You have nothing but your cowardly wishful thinking. And that's your problem mister. You're a coward. Reality makes you cry. And always you cowards brainwash children to be feeble-minded cowards like yourselves. There is absolutely no difference between you cowardly Christian terrorists and cowardly Muslim terrorists. You're all cowards, and you all have zero moral values. Your kind disgrace the human race. Drop dead every one of you.

At the New York Times a liberal retard called the dictator of Syria a "legally elected democratic leader". I thought liberals were fucking stupid, but I never imagined they could be this fucking stupid. I wrote a reply. We will see if the NYT idiots publish it. UPDATE: The NYT did not publish my comment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/world/middleeast/pentagon-program-islamic-state-syria.html

Dean Collins

 New York Just now

Half a billion of my tax dollars washed down the toilet trying to overthrow a legally elected democratic leader (that's half a billion we know about......)

Where are republican hawks when it comes to issues involving military spending.....they seem to be all over every other issue........why not when it comes to cutting defense waste?

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We agree about money being wasted but since when did a dictator like Mr. Assad (who has murdered thousands of his own citizens) become a "legally elected democratic leader"?

I made a Christian asshole cry.

HenryWilson - Instead of complaining about what I wrote you should try to learn something from it. It's a fact that your kind brainwash children. It's a fact that you were brainwashed. It's fact your magical heaven fantasy is only believed by cowards. You, sir, are so afraid of reality you are willing to believe any nonsense that makes you feel good. If you want to fix your disease you have to admit how sick you are. If you're too afraid to grow up and face facts then it's your wasted life. Nobody cares.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/south-carolina-flooding-why-did-this-happen-3-things-to-keep-in-mind-147125/

A creationist fucktard attacked science and lied about scientists to defend his moronic childish everything-is-magic fantasies. I wrote 4 replies. The asshole will most certainly vaporize everything I wrote, Christian scum have to use censorship, dishonesty, and brainwashing to defend their disgusting death cult.

1. bobcur | October 8, 2015 at 4:29 am

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   Can Creationists Be Scientists?

   No because a science denier could never be real scientist.

   Evolution by natural selection and genetic drift is the strongest fact of science and it’s the foundation of biology. A biologist would have to be a biology denier to be a creationist. Biology deniers are not real scientists. In any case they only exist at Bible colleges. They have never contributed anything important to biology.

   Evolution deniers deny the established truth of evolution because they know absolutely nothing about it. They don’t understand natural selection and they are not even aware of the massive evidence for it. They could educate themselves but they are so convinced everything is magic they don’t bother to study science. It’s called willful ignorance.

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2. bobcur | October 8, 2015 at 4:34 am

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   “their belief in evolution”

   You don’t get it. If an idea has tons of evidence then belief is not required. Several branches of science all confirm evolution. I have read 5 books on the subject. There is so much evidence for evolution there was virtually no overlap. The 5 books explained different evidences for evolution, and all that is still a small fraction of the massive evidence that grows every day.

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3. bobcur | October 8, 2015 at 4:36 am

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   “Consider Isaac Newton” who died long before Mr. Darwin was born. Mr. Newton was brilliant. Most certainly if he lived today he would totally accept the overwhelming evidence for evolution.

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4. bobcur | October 8, 2015 at 4:40 am

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   “Today as well, there are many Ph.D. scientists who reject evolution and instead believe that God created in six days as recorded in Scripture.”

   How many of these science deniers are biologists and what did they contribute to biology? You are being a bit dishonest about scientists. It’s virtually impossible to find a real biologist who denies the foundation of biology.

   https://manifoldmercies.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/can-creationists-be-scientists/