Category : Religion
I find it quite telling when the religious claim their words carry extra weight if they label themselves as “Ex-Atheist”, As if it added the same kind of Validity that comes from being Ex-Religious; It is telling because, like most of their beliefs, its based on what sounds good, rather than being based on solid ground.
We are all Born Atheist, with no pre-programmed beliefs, with no notion of a God and free from imposed thoughts; Every religious person is “Ex-Atheist”. The label offers no extra bang for your buck, It is little more than a statement of the Obvious; By being a Theist, the fact you were once an Atheist is logically implicit.
Being Ex-Religious, however, demonstrates that you have been through the intellectual imposition, that you have accepted the indoctrination like most children do, that you have had these beliefs instilled into your very core when your sense of self was at its most malleable. The extra weight comes in the fact that these individuals have had to fight against what would come naturally to them, they’ve had to question beliefs they cannot remember not having, often a cardinal sin in itself, they’ve had to go against their parents, their culture, their society and all in the name of Truth. At any moment they could of went for the easier, comfortable route, they could of hid behind a cloud of Faith and pushed uncomfortable thoughts aside; This instinct they resisted.
To offer a metaphor; One is offering to look after your child and believes to be the best choice because they have experience looking after children, another makes the same offer, thinking themselves a better choice, because they “used to be a child.”
