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I'm a 16-year old girl from Finland, and I'm an atheist. I found your site a couple of years ago, but I didn't really look through it until recently. I really love your site and I wanted to share some thoughts with you. I think I have had a perfect upbringing concerning religion. I didn't know anything about God or Jesus until I went to school and had my first lesson in religion. I think all the children believed everything, but we didn't really care. The teachers only told us the stories, and at least I have never been told anything about God or Jesus by my parents. It was on fourth or fifth grade that the history lessons began. I asked my big sister what history is, and she said "it's the same as religion but it's true". I'm not really sure what I thought about religion back then, but I guess I didn't think about it at all until sixth grade. You see, that was when nobody on my class believed in God anymore. I think everyone but me were just trying to be cool, I was a bit more mature than the other kids. Still, I wasn't sure but I had started reading about science and was really interested in how the world works. When I started 7th grade my world changed. You see, in Finland you go 1st-6th grade at one place (in finnish ala-aste) and 7th-9th grade at another (ylä-aste) after that you can start working or continue going to school. Anyway, on 7th grade I started going to a school in Helsinki (the capital of Finland, I live there but didn't go to school there before) and my class teacher was a teacher in science. He mocked Jesus on our lessons and talked about pretty much everything, including homosexuality. In the beginning I thought he was amazing, and he did make a huge impact on me. But now I realize that he's not that amazing, he's actually pretty stupid. He's always preaching about how stupid religious people are, and a teacher shouldn't do that. He shouldn't tell us about his beliefs and stuff like that, he should teach us. And what if one of the pupils would be religious? He could lose his job. And he should, he's not a very good teacher. Anyway, I have really started thinking about religion. Why does someone believe in something that can't be proven in any way? I guess they just think it's comforting to think that there's something greater than them. I understand that, and actually I kinda wish I could believe in God. I think it would make life much simpler. Haha, this was a pretty pointless letter, I'm sorry if I've bothered you. It's just that I thought it would be relieving to write to you, as I never really tell people stuff. I usually keep my thoughts to myself, as I don't think anyone would understand me. I don't really understand myself. By the way, I was really surprised when I found hate mail on your site from a Finn. Finland is a very liberal country regarding religion, and I thought the muslims were the only one's complaining about stuff. But I guess I was wrong. Are you going to have any drawing contests in the near future? I understand if you wont, since your last fan letter seems to be from 2008... Still, I hope you keep going with your site and if you'll have any drawing contests I will take part :) Sorry about all the drivel, I hope you got through the whole letter :D Ellen Liman PS. Since when is Frank from Donnie Darko a villain? |
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