Hi from Brisbane

[Imprompt]

Hi,

Just introducing myself etc.

Been a long time atheist, I declared my lack of belief at age 12, and endured a further 5 years of the Catholic School system.

Thought I'd see if I could join here to meet some like minded souls (pardon the pun).

I'd like to take a more active role in promotion of reason in society, so hopefully my membership here will help facilitate this in the future.

Have also been a long time fan of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Church of the Sub-Genius in particular for some time.

I'm now 28, living Brisbane.

Looking forward to some interesting discussions.

Cheers,

Marek

[davo]

Gudday! good to meet you, hope you have fun on the boards :) lots of good convo going on, and great people.

[Fiery]

Howdy Marek! Nice to have you here. There have been a few others here who endured Catholic school. How did you do in the RE/RI classes? Were they mainly Catholic/Christian based or did they cover the other world religions as well?

[Fiery]

Igneus also endured a Catlick Edumacation as well. His was suprisingly inclusive in talking about other religions during R.E.

[Imprompt]

Fiery Re: Hi from Brisbane
Howdy Marek! Nice to have you here. There have been a few others here who endured Catholic school. How did you do in the RE/RI classes? Were they mainly Catholic/Christian based or did they cover the other world religions as well?

Well it differs in the primary school I went to and the 2 high schools.

Don't recall much about primary school, but it lead me to a perhaps early declaration that I was an Atheist in Year 7, perhaps it was the trauma associated with learning the truth about the Easter Bunny/ Tooth Fairy/ Santa Claus , that lead me onto the realisation :)

Junior High at a Marist College was pretty dreary, we had "brothers" as teachers and it was very Catholic based, all about faith and such, in year 11/12 I changed schools to a different (more liberal in seems) catholic school.

The program at my last school ( Mt Maria Snr in Mitchelton) was quite good in my opinion, I recall spending 2 classes watching Monty Python's life of Brian, learning about other major world religions, and cutting out collages, it was the best program (for an atheist) of the 3 I experienced growing up.

I also recall Polish Scouts/School being overtly religious too. It was ironic even at the time (when I was 12) when a polish priest who was teaching us religion was deported for soliciting a prostitute in the valley a couple of years later...

[Vonnie]

Welcome, Imprompt. I notice that you've just joined the Brisbane Atheists too. Good 'onya!

Vonnie

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Bought time another local beefed up the Brisbane'ish ranks. I was getting afraid this was turning into a Perth only forum.

Jks.




But not really.

Oh, and hi :)