2007-03-21 00:18:41 · 9 answers · asked by tostosh 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You confuse courage with stupidity
2007-03-21 00:32:50 · answer #1 · answered by kenny p 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I chose to go to a co-ed High School rather than St Patrick's an all boys Catholic one, that helped, then I went on to University so by now I had managed to escape the total religious immersion of the family home and religious schooling...it faded away over a period of years until one day I realised it had gone and I had control of my own mind back again instead of being controlled by religious notions and institutions... wonderful and I've never looked back.
2007-03-21 07:25:52 · answer #2 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just turned and walked away. It doesn't take courage to break a bad habit.
2007-03-21 08:21:30 · answer #3 · answered by riverstorm13 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't as hard as I would have thought, considering how ingrained it was in me. Logic is a much kinder master than religion. It did take a lot of time, though. To be honest, I don't discuss my atheism a lot in "real" life. Living in Texas, its difficult to withstand the shocked looks and the "witnessing" to me by people that think I am going to hell.
2007-03-21 07:28:45 · answer #4 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My family wasn't that religious anyway, I was perhaps the most religious at the time so it wasn't that difficult; it was a logical decision after reading the ridiculous and fictional stories in the Old Testament. I'm the most Atheistic person in my family now.
2007-03-21 08:37:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good grief,it's not like Christians are a bunch of torture masters from which a poor victim must heroically break away and run for his life.
1 John 2:19
2007-03-21 07:22:30 · answer #6 · answered by Serena 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
it wasnt any harder than just not going back
my family and friends respect my decisions and love me for who I am
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it has however taken many years to begin again from scratch , and rid myself of any previous beliefs I had
some things become habits which are hard to break
2007-03-21 07:22:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Courage or Rebellion?
2007-03-21 07:21:14 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. Linder 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Not much as i had converted to christianity.
it took me longer to convert "To" christianity then it did to convert back away from it.
2007-03-21 07:27:01 · answer #9 · answered by Bobby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋