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2006-10-16 17:47:55 · 19 answers · asked by Oh Dee! 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was raised in a christian home - so through Sunday School, Vacation Bible School and later I went to Christian Summer camps. From as early as I can remember, I was taught that I was evil and stained and Jesus was my only shot at living pain-free in eternity.
2006-10-16 17:52:41 · answer #1 · answered by Black Parade Billie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was sunday school until I was about 8. I don't believe children can really know what they believe at that age, but I may have been Christian then.
After I stopped going to sunday school (because we moved and I had no interest in waking up at 7am again), I learned about Christianity through my friends and the media, watching programs on it's origins, etc until I was around 14 to 16. Throughout that period I was mostly just spiritual or agnostic, thinking deep and picking up different practices I liked and combining them into something of my own.
As I got older and started reading philosophers for school and college, in libraries and later online, I decided to look more critically at what I had made for myself and at Christianity (and other belief-systems). After reading on the nature of faith, feeling what I felt, and finding the main controversies, I abandoned my ramshackle religion. I instead formulated a secular code of living, drawing from Christian and non-Christian sources, while remaining distinctly atheist. There I remain to this day.
2006-10-17 01:00:52 · answer #2 · answered by Fenris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I grew up in an Orthodox Christian country (Romania). Although we were taught atheism at school and my parents didn't teach me the Christian faith, because they didn't know it either, it was difficult to ignore the existence of Christianity. Even when the elementary school teacher was teaching us that faith in God is from uneducated grannies and uneducated countryside people, and smart educated kids believe only what science tells them, she was forced to mention the existence of these people.
My grandmother tried to teach me how to pray, but somehow that made her fall in that category the teacher was talking about. (At that time I wasn't considering the fact that my grandmother had been a psychiatrist and hence had a higher education.)
The first time I really found out more was when I was 13 and, I was visiting the Voronet monastery (national cultural heritage) with the school camp. The guide had to explain us about all the paintings (the church of Voronet is famous for its exterior frescoes) and it was then that I realized how complex and sophisticated Christianity actually is, so that Christ is equally fascinating for senile grannies and illiterates on one had, and PhD scholars on the other hand.
And then, soon after, the communist dictatorship fell and many people returned to faith.
2006-10-17 22:08:51 · answer #3 · answered by todaywiserthanyesterday 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't remember where I first heard of Christianity. My parents were really screwed up from having been Jehovah's Witnesses and they didn't want to screw me up like they were. So they didn't take me to church or even talk to me about religion unless I asked them a specific question. But I remember asking them questions about God as a 6 or 7 year old kid. That means I would have had to learn about it at school. Not necessarily in school, but from the people I met there.
2006-10-17 00:53:22 · answer #4 · answered by Reject187 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I learned about Catholic Christianity from my parents and years in Catholic school. I learned about Mormonism when I was in the Air force. I learned about Fundamentalist Christianity in some non-demoninational churches. I learned about orthodox Christianity from R.C. Sproul. I also listened to Hank Hannegraff, James Dobson and others. I've read the Bible through a number of times using different versions including the New Jerusalem Bible (Catholic), King James, Revised King James, NAB, amplified and others.
What I learned is this: That Christianity really conflicts with everything I know to be true. I lived in a family filled with abuse. Part of that was from the priest visiting every friday and saturday night to play cards. Growing up transgendered in this atmosphere, where I was taught that by simply being who I was, I was damned to hell and there was not a damned thing I could do about it. (Jesus surely wouldn't accept the plea of a ******). I prayed for hours upon hours, days upon days, weeks upon weeks, years upon years, and still, no answer from God, no change in my knowledge that I was born in the wrong body was forthcoming.
So, my learning about Christianity taught me NOT to believe in Christianity. This doesn't mean that I don't believe in Christ. We have lots of proof that he existed, just nothing to convince me that He was God.
Sorry for the rant... you just hit a hot button with me. I don't hate Christians, I'm just not one of them.
--Dee
2006-10-17 00:58:31 · answer #5 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised a Christian, so I've known about Christianity since I was at least 4.
2006-10-17 00:50:28 · answer #6 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Martin Luther's Small Catechism. It is a wonderful summary of the Bible.
In grade school.
2006-10-17 01:01:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By experience, in the streets, listening to the media, hearing what priests have to say. In short, the hard way. And when? Ever since I was born.
2006-10-17 00:51:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was in my grade 4... I became Christian when I was in my Grade 6... now I'm 31 years old...
2006-10-17 00:54:03 · answer #9 · answered by danieldenzel2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I grew up with a Christian grandmother and she took me to Sunday school with her.
2006-10-17 00:55:07 · answer #10 · answered by Gigi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋