Our enlightenment usually occurs in puberty, when we are most vulnerable. Parents often refuse to acknowledge their own children, sometimes throwing them out of the house. As adults, our theist spouses often leave us and seek divorce, often taking our children with them. Life-long friends turn their backs on us. We lose our jobs.
Christians heap their 'pity' upon our heads.
Or try to 'save' us. Yet we persist. These are just some of the questions we seek to answer in our Oral History Project. It is our goal to capture on videotape as many atheists as we can telling their own personal histories of how they became atheists and the effects that realization had on their lives. We have already begun.