Hello!  I’ve been hear for a little while now, but recently I’ve notice that some people post introductions when they first come on and I thought that this would be fun.

My name is Evan, I live in California. My hobbies include reading science fiction and fantasy books.  I was raised in a Christian home, my family was fairly fundamental.  I used to truly believe in god, and I thought I could feel the power of the holly spirit working in me.  Many of the illogical arguments I have read on this form are things I have actually used on my self and on others.  For the most part I didn’t really feel I need logical arguments because I was sure I felt god inside of me.  At one point I decided to leave Christianity for reason I have already written about.

If your interest its entry number 6 titled This is a good article.

http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/15824

I immediately moved to a new religion I made up my self (except for the parts I borrowed from Wicca).  It was an earth based religion.  It didn’t include any god, but it did have sprits.   Spirits in this view were both one and many so in a way it did have a god if you consider the sum of all the sprits as such.  I felt these sprites communicated with me in exactly the same way I had felt the holly spirit had.  I rationalized the sameness of this feeling by explaining to my self that the spirits were what I had felt all along and that before I had just misinterpreted them. 

Eventually I met people who had belief systems similar to my own.  I started to hang around with them hoping to find someone I could share my new world view with in the same way I had been able to do with other Christians.  I also hoped I could learn more about my own beliefs by listening to their experiences.  At some point after hearing two people refer to themselves as the right hand of god, and another person tell me that they sometimes channeled a werewolf names silver fan I begin to come to the conclusion that I wasn’t going to learn anything from them.  At this point I also came to the conclusion that I have been delusional most of my life, and that I wanted any beliefs I had from then on to be supported by real evidence.

I came to this website because I want to live in a world that isn’t filled with destructive delusions.  I’m not sure how I can really help with that but I’m willing to try.  This post was less fun than I thought it would be, but I feel better getting all this of my chest.  I look forward to my stay here, and hope to learn a lot from all of you. 

If you have any questions about what I have written feel free to ask.  I would appreciate constructive criticism about any of my posts as well.