Interview with Dr. Monica Larson pt 6

Warrior Richardson: Originally I went to the University of Rochester first and then I hated it; so, I transferred to Howard University and I continued to be atheistic. That was a very Christian campus. The student president was a Christian--openly Christian, an avid Christian; so, I was atheistic on a very Christian campus. Not that everybody was Christian; bur far more were Christian than at the University of Rochester.



I graduated from there and got my degree in economics and became an economist at the Agency for International Development; and everybody knows the government is corrupt; but you don't know how corrupt it is unless you are working in the central economic policymaking office of the Agency for International Development; then you know what the United States government is doing in all the poorer countries of the world.



And it made me literally sick. Not just figuratively sick; but I'd come to work and I'd be sick one day and then I'd be sick another day and then it just got to the point where I said, "I'm going to be sick every single day" and i said "I'm not going be able to keep working this job" because it was immoral and it just violated my conscience and it paid well but I just couldn't...you know...there's a contradiction of an atheist with a conscience. There's a contradiction there; but I didn't see it.



And so I quit my job and eventually went back to Omaha Nebraska. (I was in Washington, DC.) What happened when i went back home--I'm leaving out a lot of details--I had gotten so good at making so many arguments