Bitter Godless Sort Seeks Same

[matty.the.damned]

. . . in the most innocent possible way.

Greetings Fellow Passengers on the Express Train to Hell,

I'm known as Matty the Damned but most people call me Matty. I'm a 32 year old from Australia and I've been what I consider to be a militant atheist since I was 15.

Reading a book by Doris Lessing (don't ask me which one, I can't remember) taught me that all things can be understood by the rational mind and suddenly the who religious thing dissolved.

It was most liberating.

I reject all theisms, but Christianity and Islam annoy me the most, mainly because they proselytise. I agree with Sam Harris; that shit is straight from the Bronze age.

Of late my local community has been beset by an influx of members of a strange christian cult called the Exclusive Brethren. It is most tiring.

Regards,

MtD

[SteveS]

Hi Matty - welcome to the board.  Exclusive Brethren?  That sounds very ... exclusive  :wink:  .  Sorry for the Xtian influx - I guess nobody escapes this sort of thing.  Sigh.

Steve

[tomday]

Hi Matty, nice to meet you.  Sorry to hear of your infestation;  'Exclusive Bretheren' are weirdos from over here and are one faction of the so-called Plymouth Bretheren.  I only close to Plymouth, but I had no part in sending them over to you - honest!

[Bella]

Great to have you, Matty.

[MommaSquid]

Greetings Fellow Passengers on the Express Train to Hell,

Welcome to the forum, Matty.


I prefer "Highway to Hell" myself.  

[rlrose328]

Welcome, Matty... great intro.  I so wish I'd discovered logic and reality at age 15... I didn't free myself until I was well past 30 (though I knew I didn't believe, I wasn't willing to make the leap to atheist... Bush being re-elected pushed me over the edge).

Great to have you here!

[matty.the.damned]

Thanks everyone!

 

MtD

[Whitney]

Welcome to the forum

[Davpronk]

Welcome!!

[stephy]

heyyyy i like it. i wish i had someone like u in my philosophy class when i was 15/16!!!! it was like me against the world then!!