Man, I think I was an atheist for years before I actually knew it. I disagreed with several things without even noticing for a long time. I'd skip going to church, (hell I would show up sometimes for the beginning and leave just so people would know they saw me that day). I hated LGBT people for a good chunk of it. That kinda stopped after I met some.

Then when someone close to me came out as trans, I didn't even blink or feel weird about it. But the old beliefs still kinda hovered there for a while still.

That shit is hard to shake when it's indoctrinated as bad as it was, mostly because of the fact that the fear of hell is reeeeal. It took a movie bringing up the fact that something that I believed was original to the Bible has been around well before it got put into the Bible. That finally shattered holding onto it, and everything else has been catching up ever since.

I'm finally becoming someone I'm not ashamed of.

That started 9 years ago. I still have a group of friends to get back to that tolerate me back then somehow and I need to reintroduce the new me.

Last night's Southpark kind of hinted at this topic a little bit. I'm curious to see where they take it, but I won't post any spoilers here because I don't know who has seen it.

Ain't no love like Christian hate!

South Park just tackled this very issue. Don't worry, Jesus is a chud now

This is almost exactly what brought me out of christianity. I was institutionalised into it from birth. So, I always just glossed over the most obvious problems that people would bring up. If anything, it entrenched me further.

However, I started realising that I had more love and compassion for people than, not just christians, god claims to have, by their own admission.

How can I love a stranger than an all loving God?

It was all downhill from there.

Most Christians (I say most because I have met some good ones) only speak out on the bad things the bible says (eg anti gay) and do nothing on what Jesus says about rich people ("its harder for rich people to enter heaven than a camel through the eye of a needle" etc.) Jesus literally told so many parables of old rich men who couldn't give up there wealth to worship Jesus, and for being the head of such a largely hateful group, actually didn't say anything bad against gay people, abortion, trans people and was in fact welcoming of gentiles (Equivalent to immigrant or foreigners to his audience.)