I just got back from a class where i outed myself as an atheist. Actually i tend to do this whenver religion is dicussed in any of my classes and considering i am a history major religion is often discussed. I dont know about other athiests but i enjoy speaking up in class, pointing out the flaws in religion, pointing out negitive aspects and essentially the overall ridiculousness of it all. That being said today's was especially interesting. We were discussing Jewish customs and traditions in my "Outcasts in Early Modern Europe" class, and my teacher was comparing them to Christian customs and then we were talking about different Jewish religious holidays and comparing them to Christian Holiday's. Well at some point my teacher had mentioned that "Jesus was born in April", I eventually got into the discussion and brought up her mentioning the month Jesus was born, i asked her "what evidence she had" considering their are no contempory accounts, and another student said the bible based reasoning for it and i asked what real historical evidence does she have that Christ ever lived quickly following it up witih mentioning that the bible was written well after "jesus had supposedly lived" All the Roman influences (which were mentioned by the professor earlier in class) and that the bible was written in Greek not Arariamic which is what "jesus supposedly spoke". This had one girl say "there is no evidence" for god, *in a sense that you should just believe without evidence, to which i said EXACTLY. This of course got a nice little discussion going but i felt very comfortable, i think i only really pissed off four or five people in the class. I like the fact that arguing from the atheist perspective gives me an advantage in any debate because in the course of all human history nobody has ever been able to prove the existance of god. After the dicussion died down for a second the kid directly next to me who i had no idea who he was turned and said "well said" to me. Which of course made me smile. I think that more young atheists especially in the class room should challange their fellow students when they say something that isnt rational. School gives you a nice forum to say what you want, its a place where you are supposed to challange your beliefs and learn new information so when a subject like this comes up. Speak up, make your point. This had to be the 4th or 5th class in the past year that i outed myself as an atheist and i had a great time each time. Its fun to see how many people are with you and its funny to see the christians get all fired up. Remember you always have the intellectual advantage. Take advantage of it.

HAVE THE BALLS TO STAND UP AND SAY I FIND RELIGION TO BE NONSENSE. When religion is mentioned say hey, 911 was religoius.

 I dont know what you think of this but hey today was a fun day.