Looking For Other Atheists

[Rosalia]

I just found this website about ten minutes ago, and it would be real helpful to have some friends who understand what I'm going through. I was recently diagnosed with PTSD and was raised in a strict, abusively religious household. I'm now an atheist and it would be nice to have support from nonreligious people.

 

[WillThereBeCake]

Hi Rosalia and Welcome!

I am a fellow atheist and would love to exchange support in a non-religious setting. I too was raised in a strict and abusively religious home. I am fairly new to the site, and don't know all the ins and outs, but if we get some other responses, maybe the admins would help us start up our own sub-group (chat room) for support and fellowship.

 

[p-no]

Welcome, Rosalia. :) And, ditto. Used to be a Christian for many years but do not believe in any god anymore.
I hope the forum and its people will be helpful for you.

 

[JustBe]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Rosalia]

Thanks, guys! This is comforting. It gets exhausting to hear well-meaning religious people say that God's gonna make everything better when religion is what caused my trauma in the first place. I also had a therapist tell me once that she couldn't help me because I didn't believe in a higher power. Unsurprisingly, she wasn't the one who diagnosed me.

 

[Chris F.]

Never had any real negative experiences personally with religion. I raised myself and deduced through my own reasoning that the odds of a higher power were remarkably unlikely and if there was a higher power it is a force for evil.

I'm more of a militant atheist - I believe religion is poison to our society in any place or form and I believe we'd all be a lot better off if it was eradicated from our culture entirely.

So I'm more or less on your side

 

[reallydown]

Ignostics ok?

 

[Rosalia]

Anyone not religious would probably fit into this categories.

 

[p-no]

I'd say I'm an Agnostic, too. I feel I can't judge whether there is a god since I'm not one.

 

[Kiracakes]

I've just joined this forum recently myself, I am also an atheist, formed that opinion when I was around 10 years old.

 

[Leah123]

I'm an atheist, loud and proud. Raised in and suffered through Catholic school for 12 years. And of course, I have PTSD. I was another one, like you Mika, who saw the light early, that Catholicism and God weren't for me, and am so glad I did.

 

[J_trustno1]

Hi Rosalia, I am atheist too. Grew up with superstitious relatives who are selfish and claim to be pious. After seeing all their drama, I decided to not follow that route.