[Peter_]

I have been an Atheist since about the age of 5 when I was sent to a High Church of England Church school and I hated every second of my time there, it had to be bad for a 5 year old to have such a strong feeling of disbelief instilled into him at such a young age.

Russ above must be one of the lucky ones who has also never been accosted by religious nutcases as well as oddly enough they do exist, I remember going to work one morning and bumping into a neighbour who was a year or so older than me but had been to the same school, who started asking me about god and when I told him that I was an atheist he started going on about religion and that if I went with him now to his church that I would very quickly be talking in tongues, my bus arrived and I jumped on leaving him at the stop, afterwards I avoided him like the plague and my mother said that when speaking to his mother that he was trying to get anyone he knew to join his church in this way.

If you believe in a god in any form then please do not try to accost me or anyone else and try to instil your beliefs in them as that is by far the best way to alienate people to you and your religion as belief is a private and personal thing.