On Attending Religious Services as an Atheist

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6. Before I was a full-blown atheist

I remember attending an Easter event at a friend's church where they had asked me to perform a song (on trumpet) with the church pianist. Afterwards, we were all milling around outside, and I heard the minister say to someone that the Big Bang was more statistically improbable than there being a God who created everything, and I honestly felt that he would have something to back that up with so I was interested (I would be majoring in math in college a year later). So I turned and started walking over to him, but my friend, knowing me well, grabbed my arm and said, "He just feels that way. He won't have equations to show you."

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