Why hello there!

Well, my blog over at Blogspot isn’t working out too well.  I’ve only made entry, but i can’t make another.  Crap.  So, this looks quite a bit easier to use, so I’ll use this.

So who am I, and why am I a Thinking Teen?  I’ll just give you the basics.
Name: I’m not giving out my real name all over the internet.  For this blog’s purposes, I’ll just call myself Aurelie, since that’s my name in my French class..
Age: 16. 
Grade: 10.
Location: Jesusland, USA.
Hobbies: Music, writing, debating
Why am I a Thinking Teen?:  Well, I’m an atheist.  I didn’t “convert” to atheism to rebel.  That’s a pretty stupid way to rebel.  I thought too much, when I was 14.  I don’t come from a particularly religious family, so I couldn’t really rebel against some type of element that was never really there.  Yes I used to be a Christian.  No I don’t have anything against Christians.  I considered, studied, and even dabbled in other religions before falling out of belief in any type of religion.  I’m not insinuating that religious teens don’t think, I’m rather saying that I deconverted from Christianity because I thought, rather than because I was told to deconvert or brainwashed or whatever.

 So, c’est moi.  I apologize in advance for any spelling or typing errors in this blog; it’s not that I’m a victim of declining education standards, rather it’s the fact that I type poorly.  Well, I’m off, au revoir.  Next blog entry: my deconversion story. 

~ by thinkingteen on February 24, 2008.