[Lestat]

I know this isn't the psychology forum, but I think these are very good posts. If nothing else, it shows that many atheists aren't the born heathens that many of the theists on here think we are. Quite the contrary. We were brought up to believe much of the same things they were and it's not always easy breaking free of the (albeit false), security that religion provides. We were able to break away from the religious dogma and have arrived where we are now, not through scoffing (ahem, NotReady), but through sensible logical conjecture

Our stories are similar. Religion always depressed me. When I finally realized the truth it was like becoming alive for the first time.