I am not a theologian, nor am I a religious scholar, I’m a computer scientist who has a deep and unending fascination with philosophy, psychology, and how those areas pertain to religious views, and subsequently to the raw emotions that it evokes. To be fair and for the sake of disclosure, I am agnostic, and was raised baptist in the Southeastern United States. Christianity shaped my early childhood and much of my adolescence, I was raised in the Old Regular Baptist church and was in my teens baptized into the Freewill Baptist church.
Soon after my baptism I started questioning things about the belief system, I consider this awakening to be both a blessing and a curse. I had questioned all of my life, but it was effectively suppressed by my parents. Any questions that I voiced publicly were quickly shot down, and any that I kept to myself were obviously answered only by my own voice, and had little merit.
I was raised in a small neighborhood. It was mostly composed of very close family, aunts, uncles, and cousins. The nearest town was about 10 miles away, and it was also very small, rural, and Christian. The internet did not exist yet, and the only people I knew outside of my family were my classmates. It wasn't until High School that I met a few similarly minded people, and started to realize that I was not the only person in the world who had these thoughts. Thoughts that maybe, just maybe, my family was wrong about this idea of God.
When I went off to college, I really started digging into other beliefs, and learning more about world religion. I learned that there were a lot of things outside of the Christianity I was raised on, including other varieties of Christian. I started reading the works of Kant, Nietzsche, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Paine, Aristotle, Plato, and the history behind Jesus and Christianity. This is where most of the thoughts I shall share within this web site were born. I hope you enjoy reading it half as much as I have enjoyed thinking through it.
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