Are you ashamed that you fell for the religious myths as a child, and proud that you matured and outgrew that,

Question

nonsense?

Answer 1

I'm not really "ashamed" of my past. I realize that I had experiences and reasons for believing what I did at certain points of my life, and I think I grew from those experiences even if I find those beliefs absurd now.

I am, however, unhappy with the fact that my parents still forced me to go with their religion long since after I rejected it. We've since come to an understanding though. They realize they were wrong to do what they did, but I realize that they had certain community and family pressures on them at the time.

Answer 2

I'm not ashamed that I believed in a god or Santa Claus. I'm as proud of being an atheist as I am proud of having green eyes. Meaning, not at all. Reaching the conclusion that all gods are fictional characters was a natural process. Pride doesn't enter into the equation.

~ "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." ~

Answer 3

No. How was I to know any such thing as a child? I was raised in the same faith my family has practiced for generations and, as a child, it was utterly normal. It was part of the world that I knew and understood.

It was only when I became older and began to think about some of the basic claims of that faith that I saw aspects that were either beyond question as matters of 'faith' or were otherwise in conflict with what other religions claimed to be true. From there, I began to doubt all religious claims because of their fundamental illogicality and conflict with each other.

But I am not ashamed of what I did believe as a child. Why would I be? That part of my life also gave me some of my happiest moments and I still know people - good Catholics still - whom I cherish and wouldn't be without and I am hardly ashamed of them, even if I no longer share their faith.

Answer 4

I wasn't given religious myths as a child and I am proud that I matured and know nonsense when I see or hear or read it.

Answer 5

1 Corinthians, Chapter 13, Verse 11 (KJV):

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

As I grew up I stopped believing in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, and the like...Jesus was just the next step in a logical progression.

Answer 6

I'm not ashamed. They were fun stories in Sunday school when I was little. I'm glad I came to a real understanding of what modern-day mythology really is- AKA religion and don't spend my life devoted to a god that doesn't exist.

Answer 7

Queen Black? No sweet heart. You're not the queen of anything unless it's Stupidity! And you and I both know that if you said something like that in front of your grandmother she'd knock you back into yesterday. Which is where you belong because you didn't learn anything.

It's women. Nope, I can't even consider you to be a woman. It's girls like you that at times make me feel a little ashamed to be black. And trust me. I was black long before you were.

Answer 8

No, I appreciate that I had to chance to get one point of view on the world. Now that I am older and know more, I have changed my views, which still include room for God, but also include what I know about science and the universe. I think the mature point of view is one that continues to think, not just rejects.

Answer 9

It's only because I need the point's

Answer 10

Yes and I am now living in the Truth of Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 13
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.