Entry #6: Now I Am An Athiest(Challenging of a Belief)

When I was a real small child, I was raised to be a catholic. My parents weren't particularly religious, but my Grandma sure as heck was, as was my uncle. Whenever Grandma was over for Easter, or Christmas, even though we normally wouldn't go to mass, she kind of forced us, and I don't think any of us were particularly happy about it, granted, for a long period of time we did go to Church every Sunday, but thankfully that stopped pretty quickly. Now, part of that Catholic upbringing included Religious Education, which, ironically, is the reason I realized I didn't believe in Catholicism.

Now, I'm going to preface the rest of the blog entry with this: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING CATHOLIC OR ANY OTHER RELIGION. I am simply stating the facts that led me to my eventual rise into Atheism.

Now, prior to Religious Ed, I hadn't really read much of the Bible, but during Religious Ed, I started to notice beliefs that were quite frankly really disturbing. For example, the tale of Abraham, who God asked to sacrifice his son, AND HE ALMOST DID IT, if not for the fact that an Angel then told him not to. That was one of the first stories that had me a bit on the fence. And then there was the whole "praise God above all else" thing, but if you look at many aspects of the Bible, you realize that God is kind of a terrible individual, committing attempted genocide multiple times. (See: Noah's Ark) And also, the existence of a supreme being with the kind of powers that God is purported to have is, in my opinion, ridiculous. There are also several paradoxes, as one of the Ten Commandments is "Thou Shalt Not Kill" and while Jesus did, according to the Bible teach that killing was real bad, among other things, there are several stories (David and Goliath, the story of Abraham) in which Killing, or willingness to kill(usually in the name of God) is not only acceptable, BUT THE MAIN POINT OF THE STORY.

For these reasons, among others, I am no longer a Catholic, nor do I want to be a Catholic, or a member of any religion. I am perfectly content with being Eric Lasko, Athiest Extraordinaire.