Yep. That’s pretty much how it went growing up. Also: “god never changed, man changed.” Which doesn’t make any sense when the old testament god proclaims aspects of his nature that don’t match up with the god of the new testament’s actions.
It’s sorta odd… I was pretty zealous as a kid and only have this story and maybe one other that I remember questioning religion when I was growing up. I was raised in a pretty conservative family.
I guess my path to atheism started when I was about 15, when one of my cousins came out as a transwoman. I was totally blindsided by this, and it took me literally years to wrap my head around it, come to terms with it, and realize that I wasn’t “completely straight” myself and acknowledge that too. What’s more was that my nearly fundamentalist parents didn’t hate her. They knew her since she was a baby, and they said they could always tell she was either gay or GIDD. They saw it coming ever since she was a little boy.
This totally contradicted everything I had been taught to fear and loathe. Once I dealt with it, and realized there’s no reason to be angry or disgusted or hateful, I realized how dangerous and damaging religious indoctrination was.
That’s when I actually started reading the bible, and by the time I got to Leviticus I was done with religion.
Today, one of the easiest ways to piss me off in a very bad way is to hear someone attack another person out of fear/hatred of LGBT people.
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Easy there, Francis.
Yeah but you fucked up “blowest” which should be “bloweth.” Bloweth is the imperative; blowest is… I don’t even know, I’m pretty drunk. Anyway, if you are using old-timey language to command someone to do something, you say “verbeth the noun.” Not “verbest the noun.”
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Hey, it’s like what I said except well researched, eloquently put, and reasonable! 
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