My intention in becoming an atheist was never to do harm to a certain faith or to rebel against a society which sought my conversion or for any other vindictive reason. It was an effort to rid myself of all superfluous beliefs and their unnecessary baggage. I attempted to reconstruct a tabula rasa, and strongly held to the conviction that I would not believe anything that I could not see with my own eyes or understand with my own mind. This is a task undertaken only by those who feel they have the intellect to withstand a full frontal assault from reality. I felt safe within the intellectual fortifications of the university, which, in its clean room of thought, had already declared war on ignorance and continually won virtually every battle.
Or so I thought.
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