Personal Narrative: Devout Follower Of Atheism

Once I was a devout follower of the Catholic religion; now I am a follower of Atheism. Growing up, I was raised in a catholic house hold and for the most part it was enjoyable and not much was pushed onto me or expected of me in terms of my belief system. I went to catholic school from preschool all the way through high school. There are many reasons as to why I converted to atheism but the main reason was because in my eyes, I saw a lot of fallacies and sophistry in religion, a lot of it was aimed towards other people’s beliefs. I currently lack a belief of any God or gods of any form; I believe in scientific facts and theories that have conclusive and irrefutable evidence to back up claims. I do not hate religion, nor do I look down upon …show more content…
For my entire life, I have been raised in a catholic house. My parents are wonderful people who made me the man I am today. I believe that they were pretty strict when I was growing up; not about my religion but about academics and making sure I was doing the best I could possible do in whatever I was doing in life. In my house, we were thought that prayer was a solution for a lot of life 's problems. We were taught that no matter what I was going through, God had a plan for me and any everything happened for a reason; everything in life was supposed to teach me a lesson. I was told that God was the solution to any of life 's hardships I may encounter. I enjoyed childhood and being raised catholic I was raised right and even though I am an Atheist, I think I will raise my children Catholic. I do not hate religion, nor do I hate anyone who believes in a God or gods, I just don 't believe in a religious deity of any …show more content…
One of main reasons for my conversion is because of certain fallacies thought by religion and I saw that people use it as a tool for hate and bigotry. I saw a lack of evidence in an omnipotent deity who created everything. I saw that religious people were using religious text for sophistry and cherry picking teachings to bolster and back up their hatred. I now look to authors such as Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins for answers to life 's questions. I see that science has evidence to back up the claims that are brought up and religion relies on blind faith and unfalsifiable hypothesizes to prove its claims. I had too many questions that religion couldn 't answer. I just wasn 't satisfied with the answers that religion provided about life and