Diary of a Teenage AtheistDiary of a Teenage AtheistLife as seen through the eyes of a 17-year-old newly-minted atheist in a small, heavily Catholic country.
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What are you doing [Christmas] Eve?
2007-12-16 01:48:00 Mom, Okay. Fine. I’ll leave you all alone on Christmas ; I’ve picked out a nice enough hotel and a dance club where I’ll spend the evening. When you and Dad and Pete have your Christmas dinner, though, and you’re looking at the one empty chair at the table, I hope you know that you did that. ... More About: Christmas Eve
And where is this line I?m not supposed to cross?
2007-12-12 18:47:00 We were having lunch at a Chinese restaurant I really liked, and the waiter had just served the cold cuts and fried rice. “Wait,” my mother said as she always did, “let’s pray first.” The rest of them prayed while I immediately helped myself to the jellyfish. This scenario happened every time we ate out. Today, however, ... More About: Cross , Line
What I did for love (TA at the gay pride parade)
2007-12-09 16:21:00 (Why yes, that post title is a reference to A Chorus Line. Man, I’m cheesy.) It was the night before the parade, and I approached my mother in the kitchen to ask her again if I could attend the gay pride parade. She, again, refused. “Please,” I whined, “my gay friends are counting on me to be ... More About: Love , Gay Pride , Pride , Parade , Gay pride parade
I don?t know any better, but you might!
2007-12-02 15:56:00 So I’d like to ask you all for your advice again. There’s an LGBT Pride March in our country this month, and as an LGBT supporter, I of course want to go to show solidarity for the awesome gay/bi/transgender people of this ultra-conservative country. And my gay friends too, hee-hee. I approached my mother and asked her ...
This makes me want to punch right through my laptop screen.
2007-11-27 04:26:00 Pardon my French, but fuck this shit. I haven’t gotten this upset over an e-mail in, like, ever. This dates back to that time when my parents asserted that atheists have no moral code: TA’s mother: ?Well, I can?t encourage your atheism because I don?t know much about it, but I think it is very important to ... More About: Screen , Laptop , Punch
Survey: Christmas and religion
2007-11-22 02:20:00 A journalism student in London recently sent me a group of questions through my Contact page that he would like answered for an article that he is writing. I hope you don’t mind that I answered them here instead of replying via email! Please let me know when you’ve read them, Marc! 1) Figures show that on ... More About: Christmas , Religion , Survey
The hard part
2007-11-19 06:08:00 People who have read this blog from top to bottom may have noticed that I have a rich smorgasbord of expletives and negative adjectives with which to describe my brother Pete. You see, swearing is a way for me to release my anger, and God knows I have a lot of anger when it comes ... More About: Hard , Part
Just because I?m an atheist doesn?t mean I?m [adjective]
2007-11-14 14:11:00 I have a religious friend, Alice, who is working on a chick lit novel for National Novel-Writing Month. We haven’t known each other all that long (we met at an event), but we get along fine even though she knows I’m an atheist. Reading her plot synopsis, however, made my facial muscles twitch a little bit: ... More About: Atheist , Theist
Martha, part 2
2007-11-08 19:08:00 I met up with my religious friend Martha for the first time in months. During one particularly quiet moment when we sat on the steps, feeling the wind in our faces, I decided that it probably wasn’t a good idea to keep this part of myself hidden from someone I trust. Me: “How do you feel ... More About: Part
The next best thing
2007-10-31 16:46:00 I spent Halloween Eve at a friend’s house. A bunch of them were watching Poltergeist, but my friend Steve* and I didn’t like horror movies, so we went to the backyard and looked at the stars. We were later joined by Haley*, another friend I’ve known for years, and Darren*, the new guy. As most ... More About: The Next Best Thing , Thing
No two ways about it
2007-10-25 03:42:00 Fred finally got to read the post I wrote about his homophobia, and as expected, he didn’t like what I had to say. He confronted me, demanding an apology. Fred: “First, I talk to you on the assumption that what I share to you is kept between us, and sorry, but I find what you’ve said ...
Free magic show after the service!
2007-10-19 18:33:00 Remember when I mentioned how I went with a friend to their Protestant worship service and enjoyed it? And how, afterwards, my parents had banned me from ever visiting a Protestant mass again, in fear of my possible conversion? That happened about five years ago, and I’d always been secretly resentful of their narrow-mindedness with ... More About: Magic , Show , Service , Free
This Christmas, part 2
2007-10-16 03:06:00 [This Christmas , Part 1 is here.] Just when I thought I was running out of things to blog about, Mother Dearest proves herself to be a goldmine of material. Thanks, Mom! For a while now, I was under the assumption that my parents and I had reached a detente, since they hadn’t brought up the subject of ...
Coinky-dinks
2007-10-14 05:12:00 I remember being in the fourth grade and forgetting to do an assignment for English class. In desperation, I clasped my hands and prayed for English class to be canceled so that we could have the bi-monthly, not-really-scheduled Guidance class instead. Five minutes later, guess who ambles into the classroom? My roly-poly, ambiguously gay Guidance ... More About: Coin , Inky
For fuck?s sake, it?s just a piece of wood
2007-10-07 04:36:00 Yes, this is going to be another “my mother and I were talking in the car” story, which took place about four months ago. My mother mentioned how she and a few friends used to play with a Ouija board when she was a kid, and how it successfully managed to predict the nicknames of both ... More About: Wood , Piece , Fuck
Wanted: Objective (and gay) third party
2007-10-01 18:29:00 One of the reasons I’m thankful for starting this blog is that I learn so much from the people who comment here with advice and explanations for various things. So in this blog post, I’m going to actively ask for your opinions, this time regarding the topics of homosexuality, homophobia and affirmative action. I often discover ... More About: Party , Third Party , Wanted , Third
?Holy? Matrimony
2007-09-29 03:33:00 Fred* (named after “Special Fred” in that Stephen Lynch song, tee-hee) isn’t as crazy as I might have made him seem in my “Truthiness” entry. Sure, he’s got a few psychological conditions he’s working on, but it’s not like he has conversations with trees or eats glue. I enjoy talking to him because I feel ... More About: Fred , Holy , Matrimony , Trim
Why even bother?
2007-09-26 03:33:00 Somehow, the conversation between myself and Tyler * turned to religion, even though it was a topic I really wanted to avoid when talking with him. “Why are you still an atheist?” he asked in a chiding, somewhat condescending tone, as though he were asking something like, Why haven’t you given up drugs yet? It took me a ...
Martha
2007-09-24 03:04:00 Two years ago, my friend Martha * was feeling depressed. She was in tears, and this close to giving up on God. Guess who came to the rescue? That’s right. Me. Teen Not-Quite-Atheist-Yet. “God has a plan for all of us,” I’d told her, meaning every word I said. “I know you can’t feel Him right now, ...
The extent of my truthiness (TM Stephen Colbert)
2007-09-23 01:49:00 As I’d previously mentioned, three of my friends know that I’m an atheist. One, whom I shall call Fred*, is somebody I might consider a little batshit crazy. I’m not sure if he’s an atheist like me, because he flip-flops a lot, but I knew he wouldn’t care in the least whether or not I ... More About: Colbert , Stephen Colbert , Stephen , Tent , Ruth
And this Christmas will be a very special Christmas for me
2007-09-19 02:52:00 “Do your friends know that you’re an atheist?” Mother asked on a ride home from the mall. (Answer: Only three. Not sure if I want to tell the rest.) “Because atheists can’t celebrate Christmas , you know. These are things you have to think about. Because you know what Christmas celebrates.” No shit, Sherlock. I knew what ... More About: Special
From Point A to Point B, and how I got there
2007-09-18 01:12:00 Let’s get one thing straight: I wasn’t born this way. I was actually born and raised Roman Catholic, but my family isn’t one of those incredibly controlling types that make children want to rebel. Atheism was a choice I made for myself. I didn’t stop believing in God just to spite my parents; come on, ... More About: Point
My ?coming out? story
2007-09-17 03:58:00 The first person I told was my (very religious) brother, Pete*. We were in a bookstore, and I can’t remember what triggered the discussion, but I just lay it out on the line: “I’m atheist.” And without batting an eyelash, Pete went, “Eww,” which sent me into a long tirade on how bigoted he was being about it. ... More About: Story , Tory
My ?coming out? story
2007-09-17 03:58:00 The first person I told was my (very religious) brother, Pete*. We were in a bookstore, and I can’t remember what triggered the discussion, but I just lay it out on the line: “I’m atheist.” More About: Story , Ming , Tory
[Introductory Post] The Pitch
2007-09-16 14:51:00 14 years of being a Roman Catholic. (17, really — I haven’t officially renounced my religion on documents and whatnot. Too lazy.) 3 years of flip-flopping between Catholicism and agnosticism. This year, I’ve finally decided that there is no God. So why have I decided to set up a blog about it? How could I possibly be interesting, ... More About: Post , Pitch , Tory
[Introductory Post] The Pitch
More articles from this author:2007-09-16 14:51:00 14 years of being a Roman Catholic. (17, really — I haven’t officially renounced my religion on documents and whatnot. Too lazy.) 3 years of flip-flopping between Catholicism and agnosticism. This year, I’ve finally decided that there is no God. So why have I decided to set up a blog about it? How could I possibly be interesting, ... More About: Post , Pitch , Tory 1, 2 |
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