Question & Answer 4
Were you ever a Christian before you became an atheist?
Absolutely! I laugh now at all the arguments I had (and lost) with other atheist back then. Of course, at that time, I didn’t see it as losing the argument. I just said to myself: “they don’t have faith” and moved on. Thankfully, I didn’t stay ignorant, I got educated and the rest happened naturally.
When I think back about how I slowly started seeing the truth and became less and less of a believer, I sincerely believe that this will occur throughout society. Assuming we don’t destroy ourselves first, of course. We as a people have a natural curiosity, it was this curiosity that created religion in the first place, to answer the questions that we couldn’t answer otherwise at that time. And it is this same curiosity that will slowly erode away at religious dogma until it is nothing more than a field of study for historians. I don’t expect it to happen quickly, it may take many hundreds of years more before it is completely gone but science has answers, real, tangible answers. Religion attempts to fill in the blanks but the blanks are getting smaller and smaller all the time. There will be a time when religion has no further purpose in our society as an answers provider. This, I believe, is why the religious authorities are waging such a fierce battle against science now. They know that science is a religion nullifier. But people like the real and tangible answers that science provides. They like the medicine that makes them live longer and they like the technologies that make their lives easier and more fun. Science is the reason they have these things and religion can’t replace them. Science will prevail, I’m just glad I’m on the right side and I know this because knowledge beats faith every time.