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I'm a 14 YO Atheist And My Dad Is Going Crazy
YOUNG MAN:
My parents have been bothering me for several months now about how I turned atheist and it's getting out of hand. They talk to me for sometimes hours a night and don't listen to any of my arguments, but want me to listen them. I'm forced to go to church and they want me to take communion.
My grandma is very religious and she's just going crazy, she just wants me to "accept that there is just some things I don't know". My Dad always says that all atheists are negative because he says all the atheists he met were. My parents always say "you're just 14" and "we've been on the earth for a long time and I've seen the lord". God it's annoying.
Now my parents want to take away all my things, internet, video games, etc. because I "need to get focused". They think they can force me to believe. I can't show them some articles about myths about atheism because they'll punish me for sure. They're making my life very miserable and they blame my unhappiness in my atheism.
My Dad is also about to go to extreme measures like therapy and sending me to another school, A JESUS SCHOOL. They also think just because they're medical doctors they know everything and every time I prove them wrong they ignore me. Please, I want help, you guys have to do something, I don't care what it is, get me out of this hell. I choose to email you because you brought up what I always try to say, but they don't listen.
God Is Not A Tyrant You Bunch Of Losers!
GOD IS NOT A TYRANT YOU BUNCH OF LOSERS!!! HE IS THE PERSON WHO DIED SO THAT YOU COULD LIVE ON THIS EARTH, BUT THEN FOR YOU TO TURN AROUND AND CRUCIFY HIM AGAIN BY TURNING OTHERS AWAY FROM HIM AND CALL HIM A TYRANT IS UNACCEPTABLE, I REBUKE THIS WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Tyranny Of God
Paperback Edition
Is there a God? Where do the animals, plants and human beings come from? Are scriptures the words of gods? Does religion teach us to live moral lives? Why do so many people kill and are killed over it? How should we live our lives if God exists? How should we live it if God does NOT exist?
This book explores the truth behind our beliefs in God and the propensity of human beings to be religious. In an honest attempt to seek the answers to life's deepest questions, I probe into how life began. I then progress to investigate the true nature of religions and their impact on our lives and the rest of humanity.
The main purpose of this book is not to argue against religion. Rather, it tells our story and how we have come to oppress ourselves with the tyranny of our own beliefs. I wrote this book to include everything I discovered to be relevant in my search for the truth, not just the truth behind God and morality, but also behind us and our existence. Instead of reading this book with the expectation that it is trying to prove the tyranny of God, I would like to recommend you read it as a story book: as a book that tells the story of humanity from the Big Bang.
REVIEW
"While Comelab's writing is always moderate in tone, its message clearly undermines current distractions with accommodationist arguments towards presumed religious "moderates". It is written with the fresh confidence of a young man who has had early success in his adopted country and only recently come to realise the truth of atheism. For those like me whose only worry about Atheism has long been its faultering progress, Comelab reminds us that much of the energy must continue to come from those who have more recently learned the truth. He seems more than bright enough to soon progress to seeing atheism not as an end but as a starting point to the kind of understanding that should enable us to work towards a future incomparably better than any heaven the faithful can imagine."
- TONY SMITH (AUSTRALIA)