Negative atheism? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 18:08 (3630 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George:I didn't start out as an atheist.
> That would be begging the question. I felt it necessary to resolve the question and applied reason to the task and came to my conclusion.
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> No doubt some theists might claim to have started out from an open-minded rationalist approach, but in my experience they all tend to believe things because it's what they were taught by people they trusted and did not want to let down, as a result of their general cultural background. Mostly they admit this openly. They call it "keeping faith".-As I have explained before, as a kid I was taught there was a God. With medical school I became truly agnostic. With reading enough cosmology, particle physics, and then Darwin, I returned to my own form of belief in God, a God without religious attributes.