Religion wasn’t really shoved down my throat, and I was never really part of a religion. It wasn’t painful for me to realize the universe for what it truly is.
When I was young, we did go to church every Sunday. However, I never paid attention to what they were saying. Like most other children, I [...]

But I have a fundamental problem with creationists, and religious people in general. I’m from Québec, which, for the record, is the largest province of Canada, and the territory with the lowest church attendance ratings in North America by a significant margin. I couldn’t say I’ve always been an atheist, but I’ve never been a [...]

I love posing in this blog the testimonials of everyday people who are atheists but whom you would otherwise never hear about. However, it is also interesting every now and then to hear about how a famous celebrity or otherwise notable person came to be an atheist (or even the fact that they are an [...]

The following is the testimonial of Vynn. Vynn is a regular contributor to the Atheist Think Tank forums.
I was indoctrinated in the christian belief since I was 5 years old. This indoctrination continued throughout my life until i graduated high-school. (I lived on a christian commune until i was 11, then I attended a [...]

How do you feel, to live in a religious country, where atheism could lead you to jail for 5 years?. Well, I live the first 23 years of my life in such country, Indonesia. Indonesia is a country with a population of 222 million people, and about 90% are Moslems. Its officially not an Islamic [...]

Coming out as an atheist today is often compared with coming out as a homosexual in terms of the stresses involved in finding acceptance among ones peers and society in general. What if you are both gay and an atheist? Does that mean that you have two coming outs to endure? Perhaps it all depends [...]

It’s hard to know where to begin but I guess I’ll start by talking about my parents, both of whom are Roman Catholics and very devout. So devout in fact that my father actually wanted to be a priest and would have been if his parents could afford to send him to school. In those [...]

Robert M. Price is a notable atheist and scholar, holding doctorates in both systematic theology and the New Testament from Drew University. Robert’s testimony demonstrates how, at least for this former fundamentalist Christian, serious scholarly study of the Bible led him to doubt its authority and eventually abandon his Christianity to the point where “now [...]

In my last post I wrote about a notable atheist and ancient history scholar named Richard Carrier. The following is an excerpt from Richard’s own atheist testimonial, first published on the Secular Web, which is interesting because Richard dabbled in some ancient Chinese religious philosophies before becoming an atheist. Enjoy.
From Taoist to Infidel
My experiences with [...]

I was raised Catholic. My mother is religious, but my father, raised a Catholic himself has not been a believer for as long as I remember. He never defined himself as an atheist. If you asked him, he would say “I just don’t believe in it. I’m not saying it’s wrong. I just [...]