My Atheist Story If you care to comment, email me at bradley@wogsland.org with "Political Vloggery" in the Subject line. All links are good on the day of posting, but you know how some tend to die after a while.

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As for religion, it wasn't the actions of any individual which led me to outgrow it, but my intellectual growth. Mathematics is the purest form of logic, and it was in studying the work of Kurt G�del while at Presbyterian College that I ran in to problems with Christianity. G�del argued that no logical axiomatic system could be both consistent and complete with a finite number of axioms. This led me to question and then reject a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible. Once you remove the absolute truth of scripture, then how do you know if those books are any more or less true than any others - the Qu'ran, the Dhammapada, etc. Looking for commonalities in religions I found that all used a human fear of death to incentivize propagation. (I hadn't yet learned about memes.) All religions promise life after death, in spite of there being no solid evidence that death is anything other than the end of life. Since all religions claim to yield results after death by mutually exclusive beliefs, they can't all be right. I realized that it was more likely that they were all wrong, that all religions were merely worldviews from earlier points in our civilization. And so I became a scientist. I believe that if a theory disagrees with experiment then it is wrong. This axiom seems to lead to a better understanding of the truth of reality than any religion.