Here's some random snippit of an article I found on the net about converts to and from atheism.
"William Murray (1946 – )
Growing up as the son of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, founder of American Atheists, William Murray was taught very early that God was a myth. His mother went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963 to prevent her then-14-year-old son from having to pray in his Baltimore public school. Her victory removed prayer from all the nation’s public schools.
William Murray went on to become the president of American Atheists, the organization founded by his mother, but he later came to reconsider his atheism. “It was in January ’80 that I became a Christian. I had been disillusioned for many years by the atheist and Marxist background with which I had been raised,” he said in 1995. “It was the result of living 30 years of a lifestyle where nothing mattered, nothing meant anything, except getting what I could.”
Murray now heads the Religious Freedom Coalition, a pressure group “promoting religious freedom and family based legislation” in the United States."
A lifestyle where nothing mattered, nothing meant anything, kind of depressing isn't it? I know as much as people try to attribute religion with morons and killers and whatever else they can find to slander it, atheism is so much worse. I see Thomas Paine has said, "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." but Athiesm works the same way in a sense. It's like terrifying people about how worthless they are and that life is meaningless, so you should go kill yourself. It's like a tool of evil. I know that Christianity is messed up in many ways, but there are good and bads there too. The same thing applies to atheists, there are good ones and bad ones. It's weird. The world is so confused and it's basically impossible to have everyone understand whatever you understand. Like, we can argue all we want whether we're apes or not but none of us will ever know until we die so, in a way, there's no point in arguing about it. But some people will want to "save" their friends or some others will try to make them follow the "smart guys," so we can't not argue about it. Oh well, it seems like it's just a matter of taste and past influence or research. Perhaps someday there will be a sign that will captivate all of us like Jesus' second coming. You know, I wish I could be alive for that but interestingly enough I like where I am now. I foresee a lot more violence in the future and I'd rather not be a part of that shpiel. Life now is great for me, but not for children in Iraq getting shot by M16's because they're all little 'terrorists.' The only thing that will tell us who's right is time. People will argue, but only time will tell so arguing until whatever point 'it' happens is a good time waster. I'll keep my beliefs with me until I die, but if it happens that I'm wrong. So be it, you know? I'd rather be safe than sorry, but I feel like there's no need to believe in evolution because what I feel is so right. So in the end, I already know I'm safe.
Ah here's some other random quote I found and like, "If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion." Funny.
Too much talk about this subject. I'm off to attend to other things.
