Teresa MacBain – Public Relations Director, American Atheists
Name: Teresa MacBain Born: 1967 Location: Cranford, New Jersey Organization Affiliation: American Atheists (AA), The Clergy Project- Executive Director, Humanists of Florida Label: Atheist, Humanist Former Religious Affiliation: Methodist Teresa MacBain is a former Methodist Pastor from Tallahassee, FL. In March of 2012 at the American Atheist Convention she came out as an atheist. She was met with a lot of backlash, death threats, and hateful comments. But her husband and son kept their heads up and moved to New Jersey for her new job as the Public Relations Director at American...
Read MoreDavid Fitzgerald – Historian & Author
Name: David Fitzgerald Born: 1964 Location: San Francisco, CA Organization Affiliation: Center for Inquiry (CFI), Secular Student Alliance (SSA), & National Atheist Party (NAP) Label: Atheist Former Religious Affiliation: Christian About me: David Fitzgerald is a sweet, kind man who enjoys speaking at different conferences and conventions about his book, “Nailed: 10 Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed” David also is the Director/Founder of the Evolutionpalooza! and Atheist Film Fest. His most recent discussion focused on the Mormon religion (LDS) where he points...
Read MoreAndrew Herzman
Name: Andrew Herzman Year Born: 1964 Location: Long Island, NY Label: Atheist Former Religious Affiliation: Catholic Where Do I Begin? I was brought up Catholic, but never read the Bible. I just went to Church and did the rituals like communion and confirmation, but I never really saw the point of it. As a child, I overheard my mother tell somebody that a priest admitted to her that religion was all made up nonsense. My mother actually taught me that organized religion is just “smoke, candles, stained glass and other things to impress you”. She made it clear to me that it was important...
Read MoreTim Finnegan
Name: Tim Finnegan Born: 1998 Location: Pleasant Hill, California Label: Atheist, Secularist, Skeptic Former Religious Affiliation: Catholicism Your Story: I was born and raised in the general Martinez-Pleasant Hill area of California, near the San Francisco Bay. My father had been raised to be a devote Catholic. He went to Catholic school all the way until his graduation day. Naturally, when me and my siblings were born, he and my grandparents (my mother wasn’t too big on religion) began to fit me with what Seth Andrews calls “God Glasses”, which is simply another way...
Read MoreMax 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...
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