January 1 2001 I was looking at the astronomy picture of the day which had a link to an astronomer that had a link to writings of a guy by the name of Ken Harding out of St. Louis. I never realized there was so much stuff out there just for the asking. I was raised Lutheran, which is only intermediately liberal, still right of the episcopalians. I fell in love with a woman who was a "christian", and believing that people with incompatible religions will only have problems and because I considered my self a christian, even though by then I never went to church, I thought that that issue wouldn't be a problem. Problem was that my wife's parents were from the south, evangelical born again christians. Real nice people in fact. I like them a lot. So I all of a sudden became a devout church goer, we went to an evangelical free church and graduated to baptist, full immersion the whole thing. I think I was baptised round about 1994 or so.

Working with scientists all the time, I had always wondered why most of them were heathen atheists. Answer: they were right. It took over two years before telling the wife, I was half convinced she was going to take off with the kids. Got through that, now I'm half of a closet atheist. I'm not quite up to becoming an evangelical atheist, but that may happen eventually. I had an anxiety disorder which made the stress of holding this all inside nearly kill me. Taking great drugs now so I sleep at least. Check out the web page, it has a nice assortment of some of the stuff I've collected from the internet over the past several years. I could simply have placed links to where I originally found the stuff, but the internet is a bit dynamic, and half the sites don't exist any more. I apologize for my plagiarization, but have included the original links to the best of my ability at the top of ascii text versions of the articles. I'm hoping that ascii will be around for a couple more centuries at least.

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