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Why are you not a Christian?
Because I see no evidence whatever for any of the Christian dogmas. I've examined all the stock arguments in favor of the existence of God, and none of them seem to me to be logically valid.
Well, you were brought up, of course, as a Christian. When did you first decide that you did not want to remain a believer in the Christian?
I never decided that I didn't want to remain a believer. Between the ages of 15 and 18, I spent almost all my spare time thinking about Christian dogmas and trying to find out whether there was any reason to believe them. And by the time I was 18, I discarded the last of them.
Do you have any fear of something that, uh, is common amongst atheists and agnostics who are converted just before they die to a form of religion?
Well, you know, it doesn't happen nearly as often as religious people think it does. Because religious people, most of them, think that it's a virtuous act to tell lies about the death pits of agnostics and such. As a matter of fact, it doesn't happen very often.