You know, for 27 years, I was an atheist.

I thought anyone who believed in a God or God's was well-stupid or uneducated, naive,

gullible, or just into the gig for money, sex, and power.

I mean, after all, everyone knows that religion is just a psychological crutch for intellectual

weaklings, right?

So what changed my mind?

Well, look, I tell the whole story in my book Shattered, but for our purposes here on

Prager University, I was simply challenged by my

Christian teammates on the Cincinnati Reds to read some religious books, critique them,

and then share with the guys where the authors were wrong.

And why atheism is the only real and true outlook for anyone not deceived by fantasy fiction

or mythology?

I mean, for someone who wants to base their beliefs and values upon evidence and argument,

not emotion and tradition, now look, simply put, I set out to disprove theism, which

I didn't think would take very long.

But I ran into some difficulties along the way.

Difficulties like Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas.

I mean, in simple terms, I was confronted with the awareness that there are really four

big bangs that have to be accounted for, not just one.

I had never really even considered that before.

I mean, we're all familiar with the first big bang, right?

It's usually the answer given to the question, why is there something rather than nothing?

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