Ask An Atheist

Hi
I’m an atheist from Norway.
I have been an atheist since that one time I went to Sunday school at age 7.
Yes, I understood at that early age that the bible was a story book, and I have argued against it ever since.
There are a lot of ppl in Norway, that sort of ‘sit on the fence’. They claim to be atheists, but goes to church in weddings,funerals, and confirmations, more like a tradition, than as if they really believe in it.
More and more ppl, have confirmations, and baptism outside the church. In a ‘civil’ ceremony. Christmas are more a celebration of the family than of a divine being.
But of course we have our share of ‘lunies’ and fundies. Shown very well by Anders Breivik.

I’m not too far away over in Canada and I feel like an out take from the movie Canadian Bacon. When they’re spreading garbage around, they joke that littering is like to a capital offense in Canada. I go long enough between serious encounters with organized religion that I haven’t become desensitized to seeing pamphlets left on top of the toilet paper holder of a Walmart washroom, the neatly folded sheets of paper slipped into cracks at bus shelters so they sit at around eye level, or elastic bands holding notes to hand rails. They’re abusing the hospitality of many private property owners by leaving their junk everywhere for others to clean up. Then so much material winds up floating around the streets as litter. I simply wish religious groups would stop littering in my town. If they want their own news paper box, or take out ads in widely circulated publications, they can do that. They don’t really think that I’ll entrust my eternal salvation to a soiled wet piece of paper desperately clinging onto a sewer grate, do they?