were you raised in a religious home/go to religious school etc
are you annoyed at how much time you wasted
or were you raised with no faith.... if so what was that like
2007-08-28 23:33:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, I was raised that way. Yes, I am pretty upset that I was living a lie that whole time. Glad to be free, and just still pretty mad that it happened. It also kind of hurts like when you realize that Santa is not real. It takes that magical feeling out of you.
2007-08-28 23:43:25 · answer #1 · answered by Jadochop 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Raised without any faith which was good because I didn't have any real problem when I did realise that the religions were all wrong (as opposed to the people who were bought up with faith that often have months of agony as they become atheists).
There was some Religious Education in school but intelligent people tend to see through that crap.
2007-08-29 06:40:58 · answer #2 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My extended family and my Dad is Southern Baptist. My Dad only started going to church regularly in the past 8 years. My Mom has never been religious and never had anything to say about it except that I would sometimes find evidence of her performing "white magic" spells in the house.
With no outside guidance, I read the bible (front to back) and held christian views on many subjects. Later I asked myself why I insisted on these views and found them to be empty and with no base in my reality. I studied all major religions to try to find something that felt true. I loved the non-magical aspects of Satanism and still respect Satanists more than xtians. But in the end, they are opposite ends of the same stick. I studied, Hinduism(too far fetched), Islam(f**ked up), Buddhism(respect), different forms of ancestor worship. Whatever I could consume in the way of religious texts. This went on for years.
In the end it all boiled down to hard evidence. And the only hard evidence points to Atheism. But I don't regret any of the time I wasted on the whole thing. At least now, I can hold an argument/discussion with the most devout of almost any religion.
2007-08-29 06:56:11 · answer #3 · answered by Octal040 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm atheist raised in a rather religious environment. It is really a waste of time for my family. So baaaaaddddd.
2007-08-29 07:30:44 · answer #4 · answered by Pearl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a child of a rape whose teenage mother abandoned me at age 2, I didn't come up in a 'family' environment, but gosh knows the air around me was thick with religious belief. No small part of it was parallel with the interesting notions of today's Christian Fundamentalists--only even more primitive: snake-handling, talking in tongues, feet-washing, falling to the floor and screaming and crying. I never believed one iota of it, and at age 9 openly declared I did not. The word 'atheist' only fell off my tongue in my teens after I had read a bit more.
2007-08-29 07:04:20 · answer #5 · answered by Yank 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I was raised in a religious home. It may have stunted my intellectual or emotional growth a little, but I understand the mindset of faith because of it.
Don't like it, but I understand it.
2007-08-29 06:41:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
My father didnt believe in anything, my mother believed as she was a catholic. We went to church here and there. So we had faith that there was a God. I tried to attend church and I found alot of the people were hypocritical unfortunately. Those that sat in the church week by week were the same families that prohibited minorities jobs or complained when their all white neighbourhood was changing. So I realized that because one attended church it had to be in peoples souls through and through and more often then not it wasnt. So now I believe in a God for all.
2007-08-29 06:42:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mother and father were Presbyterians. Not annoyed though. They were very good parents. They were just caught up in the same indoctrination techniques that they were brought up with and never figured out for themselves. They thought they were doing right by me taking me to church and Sunday school and encouraging me to read the bible. Somewhere in there though they taught me how to reason things out for myself when I got older. How could I be annoyed?
2007-08-29 06:41:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
i was in a religious school, until i quit RE, then school was much better, my parents are hypocritical christians, i told them i was satanist and they seemed ashamed, but theyve never been to church, religion causes too many arguments, i would rather keep it out of my life
2007-08-29 06:40:42 · answer #9 · answered by Kruger, Freddy Kruger 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was raised in the relative absence of religion. It was nice I suppose, but I obviously don't have a second childhood to compare it to.
2007-08-29 06:36:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋