My parents aren't very religous, but they had me baptised nevertheless. They sent me to catholic schools. Social pressure and such made them do this, I think. Being young and highly curious, I greadily sucked up all the sweet rubbish they tossed at me. I was a real believer at the age of 12.

Then, I started thinking for myself. I gradually evolved through much reasoning, pondering, writing poems and reading. I had already evolved from christian to a generical mysticist theist/deist at the age of 16. My road to atheism started when I read a Zen book. In it was the sentence: 'You needn't pray.' .

It was as if I had been struck by lightning. Why the heck was I praying... and to whom... Had I not been talking to myself all this time? To the god inside? I evolved further to pantheism, and then to agnosticism.

Finally, trough reading of atheist newsgroups, I found myself being an atheist. I have lost a lot of illusions, but also gained a lot of insight. The Tao Te Tjing, the Tzwang Tze, and the writings of Lucretius helped me a lot. And don't forget to have fun!

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