Why Am I An Atheist?

[Warpy]

5. Mom

was an Irish Catholic who never missed Mass, but it was as much a political statement as anything else.

She confessed to me when I was old enough that she was an agnostic who believed in the Irish flavor of reincarnation.

I suppose that's where I got it. I know by the age of 10 I knew there was nobody at the other end of the prayer line and that the religion that tried to tell me someone was there was utterly repellent.

My mother finally read the bible in her 70s and I think the explosion could be heard all the way to the Vatican. She never set foot in a church again.