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EquALLity · Post by **EquALLity** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:37 pm

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I am both a vegan and an atheist.

I've been an atheist for a little over a year now, what made me start to change was this video and some of the comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEn1kn_Pfhw
One commenter had two extremely disturbing Bible quotes on his profile. I had never seen them before, and they were quite shocking. So when I was going to sleep that night, I asked 'God' for a sign to prove to me that he was real. There was nothing. I was on the fence with this until the next time my mom took me to Church. I completely stopped believing there. Church was so different that day, as I was looking at it from a whole new perspective. Everything seemed ridiculous.

I became a vegan after I was already an atheist. I watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5_jXfjwOcY , which provoked me to watch Meet Your Meat and Earthlings. I watched Meet Your Meat right after watching this video^, and decided that I wanted to go vegan. Unfortunately, I was staying at my grandparents house. I managed to weasel my way out of eating meat, but not animal products. I coped with it by telling myself that I wasn't ACTUALLY going to go vegan. I would just be a vegetarian. Going vegan seemed too complicated anyway, but obviously I am a vegan now.
In the beginning I was a vegan for animal welfare, not because of animal exploitation. Well, I guess I didn't really become a vegan until it was about animal exploitation, because veganism has to be about animal exploitation. So at first I just ate a plant-based diet because I cared about animal welfare.

P.S. My username is bothering me slightly because there is no 'u' after the 'q'. Is there anything I can do about that?

Twizelby · Post by **Twizelby** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:03 pm

Welcome! I myself am a Q with no U So you are in good company.

TheVeganAtheist · Post by **TheVeganAtheist** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:32 pm

Hi EqAllity, welcome to the forum. I will see about fixing your username for you. Its great to meet new vegan atheists.

EquALLity · Post by **EquALLity** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 6:03 pm

Thank you guys for the warm welcomes! I'm happy to be on this forum and am excited about posting responses and starting discussions.
LOL Twizelby!
Thanks for fixing my username VA!

brimstoneSalad · Post by **brimstoneSalad** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:10 pm

Welcome EquALLity!

I'm glad you've joined us. And what a great story! I love when people are able to search out information on their own instead of hiding from it- it's that quality that shows that, at heart, there's a true desire to do right and know the truth.

Which bible quotes were they, if you remember?

Did you draw your avatar picture?

EquALLity · Post by **EquALLity** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 4:33 pm

Thank you!

One of the Bible quotes was about slaves obeying their masters, which I'm sure you can find if you look up. I don't remember the other one, sorry.

Yes!

brimstoneSalad · Post by **brimstoneSalad** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 2:58 am

EquALLity wrote: One of the Bible quotes was about slaves obeying their masters, which I'm sure you can find if you look up. I don't remember the other one, sorry.

Yes, that's the new testament, Colossians. It's a common example of slavery supported in the bible that is not just in the old testament.

Have you seen the billboard on that one?

EquALLity · Post by **EquALLity** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 3:47 pm

I've seen images of it.

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