Very nice.
Every time I hear an atheist from a "christian" nation describe their upbringing and comming to understand the idiocy of religion, I feel both sadness and jealosy. Sadness because they had to endure so much hatred and malice from their "peers" and "betters", and jealosy because, as I never had religion thrust upon me, never had to "wake up" by myself and learn to see the fallacy of theistic reasoning. For me, and most other kids in Sweden (or indeed scandinavia), God was simply another childhood tale, like santa or democracy, and when you learned to think for yourself ceasing to believe came as natural as touching your naughty bits. So I never had my mettle tested in the way atheists from many other countries had, and though I'm grateful for that, I also feel like it was given to me for free and I never had to work for it, almost like I don't deserve it. To be the sole heathen amongst the religious flock seems almost romantic to me. To be the lone rebel fighting the good fight against overwhelming odds. Stupid secular society robbed me of that!
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