As a child, my parents told me that by putting a lost tooth in a glass of water, it would become a coin. My first second and third tooth was put in water, and they turned into coins for sure! Now, I used to believe in what my parents told me back then, or rather take it for granted. But I wondered what really happened to the tooth. One night when I was about 7, I had lost a tooth earlier, I stayed up, and snuck out of my room to the kitchen where the tooth was. I observed my parents exchange the tooth for a coin. I didn't know what to think or do, so I went back to bed and fell asleep.
As far back as I can remember, I was a member of the christian society. Mind you, I'm not saying I believed it, because I also can't remember ever beliveing in it. I never understood the point of what the christian did, we learned about it in school. I was a boy scout, there thy talked about double scouts, people who was in the boy scouts and also believed in god. I didn't understand what that meant. I grew older, and for each time I went to a church, (which was about once a year), I was more and more distanced from it. At the age of 15, I was comfirmed, (or whatever that is in english), I still thought of myself as a christian. At the age of 17, I first met an atheist. I liked his ideas. Over the next few days we had several exchanges of ideas, and I became aware that christianity wasn't a permanent state, like eye or skin color. That it was something you had to believe in, not just something you was born as. I quickly became an atheist. My mothers parents were strong believers, thus having a major impact on my mother, which believe, allthough not as much. I learned that my father didn't believe in it, and neither his parents. Now I'm 20, and when I hear a religious person talk about his/hers silly little ideas, I get a sick feeling in my stomach.
I'll leave you with this thought:
If there is an omni-potent god, why do he need humans to believe in him, as a matter of
fact, why do he need humans? Why do he need faith? Doesn't needing go against omni-potence?