Does anyone remember when you became an unbeliever?

[Delmette2.0]

45. When I was about 55 years old.

My brother had a few too many and called me to ask "Are you a Christian?" I said yes!. He then asked "Why?".
I know I can say anything to him and blurted out "Because I was brainwashed as a child." I thought it would shock him but he laughed and said good girl.

After that I realized that there was a lot of truth to my answer and I wanted to understand more. This Group had a mention about the podcast The Atheist Experience. I listened to every old podcast on their list and branched out to others. I know I didn't believe the creation story and the flood story when I was very young but I went along because what else was there? I remember one summer night the moon was red! OMG, that's in Revelations. I asked my Mother if the world was coming to an end and she said No, it's just smoke from a forest fire that makes the moon look like that. Another story bites the dust.

I lived enough south to learn to say a good Ya'll, and also learned that a "fine Christian person" just doesn't exist if you have to be told that they are such a person.

I don't usually volunteer that I'm Atheist but the door to door evangelist sure do move fast when I smile and say "I'm an Atheist".