I'm going to write here what I told the Mormons who came to my door when they asked me why I was an Atheist.
About five years ago, I had a major psychotic episode. In it, I became deeply religious. I even met a man who convinced me, without too much trouble, that he was God and I was his first disciple.
As I came out of that psychosis, with time and medication, I realised how much of what I believed wasn't, in any way, true, or even believable. As a process of coming out of psychosis, I had to rationally question every aspect of my life. It was clear that the man, Donald, his name was, wasn't God. So, how easy was it to convince a willing person that ANYONE was God, or had seen, or heard, God? I had not witnessed the Divine. Given how easy it had been to convince me, it wasn't too much of a stretch to believe that none of the writers of the Bible had witnessed the Divine either, but had simply been tricked, as I had. In fact, it was the most rational solution to the problem of religion.
As such, I can no longer justify belief in any form of religion.
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