I just read the final chapter of "God is not great" by Hitchens and although it was hard to read for me (english beeing my second language and all), it was one of the most interesting books I've ever read about anything. His facts always win against old superstitions even in my own mind and he's got a brilliant kind of "british humor" that pushes you after a few "only-fact" chapters.

There are two of my own superstitions it destroyed or better yet debunked. And I was an Atheist before, so that is not one of them The first is the myth about Gandhi, that he was a saint and saw every men and women equal and hated violence. Turns out, he hated black africans, he slept with teenage girls and he was a fanatic hindu. Not that it makes him any kind of lesser man or that freeing India a lesser thing, but he doesn't deserve the "Mahatma" or saint in front of his name.

I like to think about a lot of stuff, one of them is the so called "Pascal's Wager". What it basically means, is, that you lose nothing if you believe and God doesn't exist but everything if you don't believe and he does exist. If you look at this for less than a second you might consider it rational. But after that one second, several things start to dismantle it

First: If God doesn't exist, you HAVE lost something. In Germany (don't know exactly about the rest of europe), you pay a tax when you're a member of a official church. That's about 4,5 % off your hard earned money every MONTH. You also lost the time you wasted listening to old superstitions and shit like that (Noah's Ark, Adam & Eve, I could go on and on).

Hi

My name is Matthew, I'm 20 and I'm an atheist. I'm from Germany and I used to be a christian until I was about 13. I grew up in a very Christian home, my grandfather was a reverend. So I like most kids did what my parents and grandparents did, i went to church and all that stuff. I never read the bible until I was (you probably already guessed it) 13 and even then the contradictions and useless violence made me think about me and my belief. Should I really believe in some sh.. stuff like a ship with 2 of every kind of animal on it? Or in stoning a child because it's been disrespectful?