I am 21 years old and I am the son of Muslim migrants, I have been raised in an Islamic culture until I went to boarding school were I was allowed to develop my understanding and principles of religion (pre-dominantly Islam and Christianity) without any pressure from my peers or teachers there. I finally became an atheist upon attending university and I am still studying all the evidence to be able to put forward a reasoned explanation of what I \'believe\' to my family. The hardest step was giving up in the belief of god as this is something that most people cannot understand, the idea that we just came into being; but I tell them look how far we have come in the last 100 years but earth has been billions of years in developing and it still it. When asked what I have against god, I tell them nothing, if you wish to believe in Zeus and Thor also that is your prerogative but what I will not tolerate or stand-by and watch is acts of violence, homophobic attitudes, sexism and bigotry enacted out in the name of what is merely a myth.