After I wrote my last post I decided, especially since this is a blog on atheist spirituality, to blog about a spiritual experience I had that was related to my learning in my Intro to Astronomy class. That particular learning was the idea that all the different elements in the universe were fused together in stars and supernovae from the original hydrogen that was formed just seconds or fractions of a second after the Big Bang. [Read more...]
May 16, 2009
New Chapters in Life
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Normally I’ve been writing a new post every weekend. However, last week I was on my honeymoon so I skipped the blog. Yep, I’m a married woman now, to a wonderful atheist man 
I remember a previous huge step in my life was in University, where I learned things I’d never dreamt of before, and found my view on life to be entirely different than when I went in. The most striking thing I found to be changed in this period of time were my views on religion. I had a discussion not long ago with a Christian family member about the influence of professors on my views. I think it is just par for the course for professors to challange their students to see the world from a perspective they have never considered before. [Read more...]
May 3, 2009
Things I’ve Learned about Atheism
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There is a Barns and Noble bookstore within a couple minutes drive of my office, so from time to time I hang out there during my lunch break. Last Wednesday I went in and sat by the section in Philosophy with the books of atheism and reflected on some of the things I have learned about atheism in my 7 years of considering myself an atheist. Things I didn’t realize when I started out of this path. [Read more...]
