Welcome to the side of Logic ☺

Congratulations! Another mind has become clear...

More power to ya! I myself was a halfway believer early on and gradually I wondered out into non-belief as if I had always been that way. No struggle...just seemed to fit like a glove! I feel safer, happier and have no need to justify myself to anyone!

Congratulations on accepting yourself!

Congratulations! This journey involved a lot of study for me and that study was the bible. The writings inside came together officially some 300 plus years after Jesus. The book contradicts itself because the many smaller books inside were never meant to be bound together as one. "Early church fathers" is a term put on people 300 or so years after Jesus, and Josephus was not a contemporary. Paul is credited with writing two thirds of the New Testament and he never knew or met Jesus. Beyond that, the man could never tell whether he was "in or out" of his body when he received his great teachings. I look back and it is so hard to imagine people who follow this.

Some claim I have not tried other religions. Why would I need to? So called holy writings abound and there is no proof of gods or of gods wanting to get in touch with you. The question is more like why do we want so desperately to invent a god?

Good luck to you in your journey. Remember also that we make our own luck.

May I just add my good wishes to those of all the others. Welcome to being a freethinker and rejecting the dogma of Catholicism. My grandfather made that same decision to leave the Catholic Church in 1911. He had been raised in an Irish Catholic immigrant family in England, came north to Scotland where he married my grandmother, a Protestant who converted to marry him. My father was born in 1910 and baptised into the church, but a year later my grandfather decided to leave the church and declared himself a freethinker. He raised my father and his brothers and sisters to think and read everything and never to believe unquestioningly, but to challenge and decide for themselves. My father in turn raised my brother and me the same way, for which I am eternally grateful. Welcome to our community.

But religion has so much to offer: lies, fear, ignorance, superstition -- are you sure you want to give all that up in favor of reality?

As children we have to trust what our elders tell us or else we would probably not survive. But when we reach the age of reason we can start to evaluate things for ourselves and reject that which is dead tradition and hocus-pocus. Welcome to the light.

You are shaking some of the last vestiges of Spanish domination of your culture. Lapu lapu would be proud!!

But what if you're wrong? What if there is an angry old man in the sky who wants women to be subjected to the status of property that men can own and who will burn you in liquid fire for eternity?
Well that's just crazy but there are a lot of crazy people who believe that horrible idea. Just remember to put things to the test of logic and if it doesn't pass that test after several attempts then it is probably just a crazy idea and should be avoided.

We all want to fit in with our family and friends - that is a very hard thing to let go of... Good for you. You will feel much better in the long run.

Thank you for sharing your story @Boomtarat03, it's always good to see a new person stepping out of darkness to full freedom. I am happy for you!

Catholicism was spread to your country by the way of the rifle

I'm glad you came to the logical and Real world, its always fun to interact with you

That's great. I'm happy you feel free.

Spread the word to your countrymen and you could start a revolution.

Welcome.

Welcome beautiful lady

kudos,

I dated a Filipino many years back. He belonged to Iglesia ni Cristo, which had a lot in common with the church I grew up in, Seventh-Day Adventists. I got to visit his family from time to time in the Philippines, but it was always under the pretense of "friends." He lived in fear: fear of God, fear of being disenfranchised, and fear of being cut off from his family. He still does. The one thing I don't miss about God is that fear. And I'm free to love people and be happy.

I see my belief in God as a computer app that was installed for me, not by me, and when I gave up that belief in God, all I did was uninstall the app. I've been surprised at how much hard-space that un-installment has opened up. It's also surprising how many legacy apps have been affected.

Good for you leaving the bs of religion behind and embrassing logic, science, etc. I bet there was a great weight lifted off your shoulders when made your enlightning descision. I know I'm happier since I have been an Atheist.

Good for you for believing in yourself. Welcome!

Well done my friend. I am so happy for you

Most 'religious' people got that way from indoctrination when young.
Once older & wiser, a little reading & research soon reveals the falseness of it all.