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I came to my current atheism from a long journey starting in a religious household, by first struggling with Epicurus' formulation of the problem of evil. That

• ByteJockey 5y ago
  Over 2000, actually. The the problem of evil, as originally stated by Epicurus (assuming he was the original formulator) has always been weird to me. Dude was in an era where believe in multiple gods was fairly common. In addition, these gods were not generally portrayed as the combo of omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient at the same time that makes this an actual problem. Don't get me wrong. Huge problem for followers of Abrahamic religions, but not really a big deal for someone in ancient Greece.
• Igelau 5y ago
  I came to mine in college. I had been a somewhat casual Protestant. I was away from my church and tried actually reading the Bible. Yikes. Let's start at the Gospels instead. Also yikes. The funny thing is that religions are incredibly interesting to me: my shelf has several Bibles, a Quran, a Baghavad Gita, a Book of Mormon, just to name a few. I could almost be Catholic if they'd just stop lying to themselves and everyone else about the semantics of the whole thing. If they'd just throw out the scripture already, let ladies be priests, and admit that they worship a fertility goddess and a Pokedex of demigods -- it's not a terrible choice!
  • mattnewton 5y ago
    Reading the Bible just made me a deist / agnostic at first. It is a wild ride, but I couldn’t write off artistic liberty / nuance haha. Total agree with your other posts. You can be culturally catholic and think of it as a big book club and still get value out of it- I know some people who do.