@GodisNotReal_

If ever you wanted to get into the mind of an atheist, the very last place you should turn is to a theist who doesn’t understand atheism in the slightest way. Anthony DeStefano is the author of “Inside the Atheist Mind: Unmasking the Religion of Those Who Say There is No God" and he recently penned an article on FoxNews titled “T oday's atheists are bullies -- and they are doing their best to intimidate the rest of us into silence .” I read just a few sentences of DeStefano’s article before quickly realizing he doesn’t know the first thing about the mind of an atheist. I can’t speak for all atheists, obviously. But I can speak for myself, and I can speak somewhat generally about most of the atheists I interact with on social media (and the few I know in 'real life'). It would be impossible to paint broadly about any group of people--you couldn’t make accurate judgments about all white people, all Canadians, all photographers, or all Christians, except that they h...

A Christian commented on a post of mine and asked me for "my story"--She wanted to know how I became an atheist. The following is how I replied. My parents were both Catholic, but we didn't go to church that much when I was a kid. My dad's mom lived with us for a little while when I was really young, and she was very deeply Christian and also had the unfortunate combination of also being Schizophrenic. Paranoid Schizophrenia is one of the worst and saddest diseases on this planet--my grandma was plagued with grandiose delusions unimaginable by sane people. But she read the bible to me when I was very young. I remember once she told me that "the devil" was always "trying to get me." I realize now what she was probably trying to say is that he was trying to tempt me to sin, but I was so young that I took that literally to mean that little red demons or devils were always following me around trying to kidnap me. I used to walk to school every day ...