Reply #14: Always been an atheist, sort of... [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

Got my first doubts when I was about 9, I think, when faced with the classic paradox about god and the heavy stone, and after some long reflection decided that god was just a grown up version of santa claus.

Many years later I joined a church, mostly to meet a pretty girl in the choir, and also to sing in the choir. I'd been in school chorus all my school years because Dad was the music teacher, and I missed it. I could enjoy the music and vaguely believed in something like The Force, but never did buy into the Jesus thing.

When my wife converted to Judaism I took classes with her and wound up converting as well, neatly getting out of the Jesus thing, and had the added bonus of now belonging to the religion of reason. Then I came to realize that it still depended on the unprovable concept of god. So I unconverted myself.

Now, when people ask, I say I'm a jewish atheist by choice. A convert to secular judaism.

It confuses them almost as much as it confuses me.