The moment you realized you were an Atheist...

[Aquaria]

18. Speak for yourself.

I’ve converted people to atheism.

I didn’t do it by dragging anyone to a science meeting or haranguing them. I just dropped little bombs in their arguments and minds that they couldn’t shake free of.

One guy, it started with him saying he’s Catholic, because if he did things that weren’t so great, he would be forgiven.

I simply asked, “Why do you need a third party involved in something you’re responsible for? If you can, seek forgiveness for a wrong you did with the person you wronged, and if they won’t forgive you then why not forgive yourself?”

So some of it I got from my Jewish heritage, but the rest is simply common sense.

Anyway, the Catholic came back to me a few months later, and said he couldn’t shake what I’d said, he kept going over and over it, and realized it was true: he didn’t need the church for forgiveness. And with that delusion shattered, he was starting to question what he needed them for at all.

With a few more little bombs dropped in a similar vein, he became an atheist in no time at all.