Hello! And a little about myself, too.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 12:41 pm
Greetings! I am Fumble and I am proud to be a vegan atheist. I'm from the US and am currently attending college.
I started off being your typical 'meat is best' pre-teen. I actually thought animal rights were silly. Because I was brainwashed by my upbringing to think that the United States is some gold-standard for ethics (yeah right), I figured we must be justified in our mass killing of animals. Regardless of those thoughts, meat tasted horrid to me, so I went vegetarian (while still consuming dairy like a mad little girl). At my moments of vegetarianism I still supported meat, I just didn't eat it. I still supported it because my peers assumed I was one of those "wacko animal loving vegetarians," so I played the cool animal-hater like everyone else (keep in mind this is middle school, now).
Then over the course of a few years I became curious. I started looking up slaughter videos just to get a glimpse of all the hype around factory farming. Anyways, those images stuck with me - I began being a proud vegetarian! After reading into being vegan and reasons behind it for a year, I adopted the lifestyle (including the diet, no animal testing on cosmetics, no leather or suede, etc). I have been vegan for nearly two years now. A slow transition worked well for me, because I know I wasn't following some fad or trend, I was actually learning and changing my beliefs.
As far as being an atheist, I do admit, that comes largely from my father who is pretty adamant that there is no god, gods, goddesses, magic, etc. Throughout my childhood I was raised to believe what he believed, and it stuck with me. There are no significant belief changes, or even deep thought processes around myself being atheist. I am guilty of what so many theists are guilty of - family tradition. Regardless, I feel atheism is pretty darn cool because I can engage sexually with fellow women without some mysterious figure sending me to hell for something that is completely consensual and causes no harm. So I'm rolling with it!
Glad to meet y'all.
I started off being your typical 'meat is best' pre-teen. I actually thought animal rights were silly. Because I was brainwashed by my upbringing to think that the United States is some gold-standard for ethics (yeah right), I figured we must be justified in our mass killing of animals. Regardless of those thoughts, meat tasted horrid to me, so I went vegetarian (while still consuming dairy like a mad little girl). At my moments of vegetarianism I still supported meat, I just didn't eat it. I still supported it because my peers assumed I was one of those "wacko animal loving vegetarians," so I played the cool animal-hater like everyone else (keep in mind this is middle school, now).
Then over the course of a few years I became curious. I started looking up slaughter videos just to get a glimpse of all the hype around factory farming. Anyways, those images stuck with me - I began being a proud vegetarian! After reading into being vegan and reasons behind it for a year, I adopted the lifestyle (including the diet, no animal testing on cosmetics, no leather or suede, etc). I have been vegan for nearly two years now. A slow transition worked well for me, because I know I wasn't following some fad or trend, I was actually learning and changing my beliefs.
As far as being an atheist, I do admit, that comes largely from my father who is pretty adamant that there is no god, gods, goddesses, magic, etc. Throughout my childhood I was raised to believe what he believed, and it stuck with me. There are no significant belief changes, or even deep thought processes around myself being atheist. I am guilty of what so many theists are guilty of - family tradition. Regardless, I feel atheism is pretty darn cool because I can engage sexually with fellow women without some mysterious figure sending me to hell for something that is completely consensual and causes no harm. So I'm rolling with it!
Glad to meet y'all.
