Lady of Permutations
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Hi, my name is Heather. I'm seventeen and I'm crazy.
I'm here to learn about religion and hopefully about myself. My username is from Dante's Inferno. I don't know what it means but it seemed appropriate.
I was raised as a cultural Christian, occasionally going to a Pentecostal church. In eighth grade I went to a small private school that taught young-earth creationism, and the people there annoyed me enough that I started calling myself an atheist and switched to a public school the next year.
In ninth grade I tried to become a Christian again, mostly because of Pascal's Wager, and I found that religious belief doesn't come easily to me. I read a lot of arguments both ways, but they didn't really help me make a decision. You can't make yourself believe in anything with intellectual arguments alone. I sort of got bored after awhile and started myself an atheist again, because most people where I live aren't overtly religious and everyone is functionally an atheist anyway. (I don't think I could ever be a cultural Christian again. If I actually, truly believed in God, that would be a pretty big deal and I think it would affect my life a lot.)
But now I'm back, trying to think about all this again.
I'm here to learn about religion and hopefully about myself. My username is from Dante's Inferno. I don't know what it means but it seemed appropriate.
I was raised as a cultural Christian, occasionally going to a Pentecostal church. In eighth grade I went to a small private school that taught young-earth creationism, and the people there annoyed me enough that I started calling myself an atheist and switched to a public school the next year.
In ninth grade I tried to become a Christian again, mostly because of Pascal's Wager, and I found that religious belief doesn't come easily to me. I read a lot of arguments both ways, but they didn't really help me make a decision. You can't make yourself believe in anything with intellectual arguments alone. I sort of got bored after awhile and started myself an atheist again, because most people where I live aren't overtly religious and everyone is functionally an atheist anyway. (I don't think I could ever be a cultural Christian again. If I actually, truly believed in God, that would be a pretty big deal and I think it would affect my life a lot.)
But now I'm back, trying to think about all this again.
