NameCatherine MacTier
Statement

I cannot express how deeply the personal stories on your website have moved and inspired me. I am an Australian, and was brought up in a fundamentalist Christian household, but rejected the reactionary, hypocritical and irrational faith of my family when I was 15. I am now an antitheist, but it has taken me almost 25 years to come to terms with my inability to believe in incoherent and vicious fairy tales, and to find a way to view myself as a truly moral and ethical person without the need for supernatural justification. 25 years of spiritual struggle was bad enough . . . but of course no-one was sending me death threats! . . . I am absolutely in awe of you and your contributors. Thanks to the impetus of the New Atheist movement, I am just starting to take an active part in supporting secularism and reason, and am a recent member of Atheist Foundation of Australia. Your website has given me new hope . . . we are not as incomprehensible and alien to each other as we have been led to believe. Thank you.