Max West
Name: Max West Born: 1981 Location: Franklin, NC Label: Atheist Former Religious Affiliation: None! I was born this way! My Story: I don’t believe in god. I am an Atheist. This isn’t really news. I was raised as an Atheist. My parents are Atheists, my sister is an Atheist, my wife is an Atheist (formerly fundamentalist pentecostal), and our daughter is an Atheist. As such, I don’t have one of the tales of struggling within my family that so many here have shared. To those of you who have shared such stories, I want you to know that I commend you and I am proud of...
Read MoreKevin R. “Vin” Rohm
NAME: Kevin R. “Vin” Rohm BORN: 1955 LOCATION: Milton, WA ORGANIZATION AFFILIATION: MAAF, AA. LABEL: Atheist FORMER AFFILIATION: Missouri Mormon (RLDS) MY STORY: Mom was a very religious woman. She told my siblings and me that she would rather we were dead than to leave the church. I was such a disappointment to the poor woman. My doubts began when I was in my teens. I guess it began with judgment of homosexuals. I knew my uncle was gay and I just couldn’t see how that made him an abomination. He was pretty cool; just four years older than me. It just...
Read MoreZal Cleminson
Name: Zal Cleminson Born: Glasgow, Scotland Location: Barnsley, England, S70 4PQ Label: Antitheist My Story: It was in the month of May during the post-war working class austerity of Glasgow in Scotland, I was born the son of an army Sergeant and a shop worker, into a close-knit, loving, loveable and modest Presbyterian home. Brought up within a consanguineous household I wanted for little. Responsive and energetic, I had a happy unblemished childhood, brought up to feel the unease of wrong-doing. Still too young perhaps to form, in the back of one’s mind, the uncertain outlines of an...
Read MoreRachael Cline
Name: Rachael Cline Born: 1985 Location: New York City Former Religious Affiliation: Christian My Story: I was raised in a conservative Christian family and I came to the (post-Jesus) light as a teenager after questioning the highly illogical teachings I was spoon fed at home & at Jesus Camp. Since then, I have been joyfully embracing the beauty of living for this life, not some notion of an afterlife. I am happy and proud to say that I recently celebrated eleven years as a Free Thinker. It wasn’t until this year that I stumbled across the secular community of Humanists and have...
Read MoreErica Sims
Name: Erica Sims Born: 1974 Location: Born in Niagara Falls, NY Organization affiliation: American Atheists Label: Atheist, Secularist Former Religious Affiliation: Presbyterian My Story: I grew up in a great family – my mom, dad, younger brother and me. My parents took us to church and Sunday school every week but religion wasn’t a big deal in our house, we went to church and believed in god and the bible but didn’t think much about it except for on Sundays. My parents weren’t preachy; no one in my immediate or extended family was. I never doubted the existence of a god until...
Read MoreAmy Paris
Name: Amy Paris Born: 1971 Location: Philadelphia, PA Former Religious Affiliation: None My Story I have never been religious. My parents had been raised in religious homes, but had grown out of their faiths, as I’d delicately put it. So I was raised in a non-religious household, and was never exposed to religion at home at all. We celebrated a very secular x-mas (taking the “Christ” out of it, don’t you know), full of presents and food and family, but certainly without church or even reference to the meaning of x-mas. Ditto Easter – we had Easter...
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