You get 20% of your own fucking print sale. That's plain ridiculous. dA makes good money off of other people's hard work.

If it only took a conversation, you probably already were an atheist at heart. But I know how difficult it is to break out of a way of thinking. And religion is a way of thinking, like a bad habit. Habits are hard to break.

It's sad that you have to hide being a person of reason, but often there is no reasoning with people of religious faith so I understand you must do what you must do.

Yeah, a lot of people say they are Christian and they haven't even read the bible. I just don't understand how people can say they believe in a God and never bother to read "God's word"/the holy scripture that is the foundation of the entire faith. It doesn't make sense, right.
And then you have those that have read the bible, but cherry-pick doctrines only to suit their own convenience or justify some bigoted opinion. That is probably the worst type.

Religion is already dwindling, and has done, since the Age of Enlightenment. It has slowed down human progress for centuries and will always try to. Nonetheless, as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once said: "God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time goes on"

Are you on facebook, sweetie? We can talk more there if you wish. I don't check in here very often.