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[Jeep]

Hello All,

I'm a 43 year old male that joined here in order to try to help promote the lack of a need for faith.
I was born and raised in what is almost dead center of what is known as the bible belt in east central Mississippi.
I have a degree in electrical engineering and I currently own/operate a Harley-Davidson aftermarket repair and customizing shop.

My dad wasn't religious that I know of, as he never spoke on the subject, but his mother was. I went to church with her until I was about 11 or 12.
My mother was raised as a baptist and her side of the family was very religious although I got the impression that she leaned toward being religious only in order to not make waves among her parents and 8 syblings.

For a great deal of my life I never mentioned that I'm an atheist as I felt like I would immediately be looked down upon. For several years now, that has changed, as I have read the bible in depth as well as Darwin's "Origin of Species", Dawkins' "God Delusion", Hitchens' "God is not Great", and Stephen Hawking's "A brief History of Time" and Hawking's "The Universe in a Nutshell".

Exactly one of those books made no sense at all to me. Guess which one.

[McCulloch]

It must have been a bad day, two spelling errors and that grammar mistake.

Two spelling errors and two grammar mistakes.

I relinquish my Grammar Nazi whip to you.