User:Larry Carter Center

Dear Readers, My name is Larry Henry Carter Center, I was born Larry Henry Carter in Des Moines, Iowa March 22, 1952, fake Gregorian calendar. I am a lifelong American Atheist. All people are born Atheists. It is usually parents who cause belief in alleged deities. Though shamanism and animism are ancient and still common in aboriginal cultures isolated across the planet, the concept of alleged bad or alleged good gods, spirits, demons, ghosts or souls that reside at anytime inside a human body or any other object is a repulsive concept to me. I have never subscribed to an alleged deity. My sisters might claim my childhood was religious, but my integrity is my stream of consciousness and memory dating back to my anger at hearing how adults and elder people deliberately lie to children as to the existence of Santa Claus. I was taught to hate Atheists. My father called Atheists: "rattlesnakes" and his early religious upbringing was Pentacostal. My mother was christened Methodist, but when I was aged 7 years, she converted to the church of my sister and I was horrified to see an adult woman soaking wet with a white baptismal gown with bra & panties very visible underneath. My escalating rebellion away from the phantasmagoria and obscenities of the pornographic King James Bible, given to me at age 7 as a reward for the fastest "look ups" of citations like Hosea 13:16 or Ezekiel 23:20, concluded when I read a front page obituary of Walt Disney. The Des Moines Tribune printed: "no funeral is planned by the family, he was an Atheist." having read Einstein's biography when I was just 8 years old, I was satisfied with two Atheist role models. Most importantly, as a Boy Scout Tenderfoot, after two years a struggling Cub Scout meeting in two "foreign" churches & den mother packs, I compared my dead brother's 1949 Scout Handbook to a 1962 edition for sale. When I saw "under god" printed into existence with a changed Prayer To The US Flag of the first amended Pledge of Allegiance, I concluded that hatred of Atheists was not something I'd tolerate in my life anymore.

I live in Charleston, SC with a computer professional woman who is a 100 per cent American Atheist. We love our Atheist Maine Coon cat Max. I am a peace recruiter during career fairs at local schools and I escort women past religious assailants into the local abortion clinic.