Why Am I An Atheist?

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6. I was raised in a Southern Protestant church.

I was baptized before I was old enough to understand what it meant. Religion was pushed hard by community and (public) school. I had to go to Sunday school and church, and still, it never caught on with me. I even tried to believe for a while. I guess I was a cynical old bastard even as a small child. Religion just never made sense to me, however, as a young person, I knew better than to express my feelings about it. Maybe some of us just question everything around us, we have to sniff everything we come across to see if we can detect the smell of bullshit. As I see it, faith is the intentional abandonment of reason.