Why I am an Atheist

I have been an atheist since I was a child. I have seen nothing since that has steered me from the conclusion that there is no god, heaven, supernatural, next life and for that matter space aliens and Bigfoot.

When I was about 11-yrs old my grandmother, Mary Kate Diemond died. She lived with our family. I was the closest grandchild to her. My mother, her daughter, brought me into the bedroom where Nanny lay expired. “Take a last look at your grandmother.” she said. I did. Nanny’s mouth was agape and her eyes open in vacant contorted expression no movie actor has ever managed to duplicate. Realizing she was dead, a concept I hadn’t heretofore considered, I looked at Mom pleadingly. Being a good Irish Catholic she said “God took her to live with him.”……. What!!

Well I hated God from that minute.  For the next year I muttered my feelings at God more or less daily. My hate gave me no satisfaction because I had gotten no reaction from God; contrary to the brimstone and hellfire the Nuns threatened me with every Saturday (when I could have been watching cartoons). Very frustrating when the object of your ire ignores you completely.

At about the end of a year I decided that there must not be any God. I felt a lot better. Relieved. Enlightened. I was twelve.

That’s how I became an atheist.

Though I always question the notion of God in any event where “he” comes up in the discussion. But the debate is over for me. I cannot prove that there is no God, but the plethora of evidence points to no God.

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Human misery, the innocent victims of child abuse, pollution, dementia, alcoholism, war, wisdom teeth, infant mortality, illiteracy, capitalism, starvation, epidemics and other social ills which could only be the natural product of mankind.  Certainly no God ever has taken responsibility for those or been held accountable for them; except as unjust punishment. 

One childhood friend who went thru the weekend Catholic grind with me in those formative years comes to mind.  Decades later I wound up taking a ride with him in his truck. As we rode by St Patrick’s Church, he (devout! Catholic) was shocked to learn I was an atheist.

“If you’re an atheist what keeps you from killing people?” he asked me.

“You can drop me off at the next corner. ” I said, warily eyeing the buck knife lying on the dashboard.