When did you decide Christianity was false? How old where you? I was 11 and I am 13 now. Unfortunatly I can't tell my parents unless I want to be screamed at and taken to the pastor.
2007-09-09 07:55:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't believe it's "false" It's just not for me.
I believe that their God exists, I just don't belong to him. He isn't of my blood, therefor I have to reason to follow him.
But I never felt "right" in Christianity. Even as a kid. I tried my hardest. It just never clicked. I am far more at peace now as a Heathen then I ever was as a Christian.
edit: awww Pheonix...I was atheist before the Gods called me. :P
2007-09-09 08:02:36 · answer #1 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I think I was about 12. I had read a science fiction novel by Andre Norton ( the title escapes me at the moment ) that put christianity in a negative light. Up until that time I had accepted religion with no thought, going to sunday school and occasionally being dragged to church. I was never religious though. After that I did give it some thought, decided I didn't like what I was seeing. To the dismay of a number of my sunday school classmates, I denounced Jesus. My parents of course were having nothing of it and kept sending me to that detestible institution. For I while I decided I was an athiest, but every thing I read on athiesm was as doctrinaire as Christianity. Probably by age 18 I decided I was an agnostic. Much later in my 50s I embraced the tenets of apathetic agnosticism ( we don't know and we don't care ) Try to imagine any group less likely to engage in religious warfare.
2007-09-09 15:44:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not pagan, but I started realizing that Christianity was false about the same time that you did. Its hard to be young and figure out something that huge, and know that nobody is going to take you seriously because you're just 13 years old.
As long as you live at home with your parents, you'll probably have to go to church. You don't have to believe it, when the pastor calls for prayer you don't even have to bow your head and close your eyes --because everyone else does. In the meantime, you can learn and grow in your newfound path ... even if you have to do it in secret.
Then, when you're old enough to move out, you can be a pagan in peace.
2007-09-09 15:05:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Being pagan doesn't automatically mean being anti-Christian, and pagans who think all Christians are evil/stupid/other broad brush approach are hypocrites. All religions have the potential to be used for help or harm.
I was 17 when I discovered paganism, and 19 when I finally settled on my path. I went through a brief anti-Christian phase, but I grew out of it quickly after a reminder that we're all only human, and that no religion is any better than any other--it's the people who determine what happens to them.
2007-09-11 17:54:00 · answer #4 · answered by Lupa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i never really believed it. i tried for a long time to find truth in it because it was all i knew about. i became an atheist for a while, then realized i was always pagan when i read marion zimmer bradley's 'mists of avalon'. so, i didn't really convert, i came home to what i always believed. i was in my 20's.
you should respect your parents, but that doesn't mean you have to believe as they do. they might surprise you. breech the subject gently. ask them some questions. if you don't get answers that open the door to further dialog, leave it alone. there may be more in their faith that you can relate to than you realize. for now, read as much as you can about all religions. i know many people whose parents don't accept their religious choices, but they maintain close relationships. you're dependent on your parents right now, don't do anything that will jeopardize your relationship with them, and realize that as you grow and change, a lot of things may change, too.
2007-09-09 15:18:28 · answer #5 · answered by bad tim 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was about 8 when I first felt the stirrings of my Gods within me. I tried to be a "Good Christian" for quite some time afterwards. It can be unsettling to be called by a differant God than those around you.
And Daughter said it well, It is not that Jesus is not A God, he's just not MY God.
Wait until you are of legal age to tell your parents. There are a lot of ways you can learn about your beliefs before then that are still useful. Study ancient literature and art.... a lot of it has religious themes.
Gods Bless.....
2007-09-09 15:11:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anne Hatzakis 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I never decided that Christianity was "false." I just simply felt like it wasn't for me. This happened in high school and I feel much more at home on my current path then I ever did as a Christian.
2007-09-09 17:08:38 · answer #7 · answered by MoonWater 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never remember a time when I didn't think it was false. Sunday's I went to school to learn 'fairy tales'. I never put much stock into them. My mother was agnostic, I went to church with my Grandparents. I was never forced to go, when I was around nine I stopped going every week. I still went but, it just stopped being as 'fun' as it used to be. I started thinking about what they were trying to tell me about everyone who didn't believe as THEY said were going to go to hell. What about GOOD people, who weren't Christian? Like Buddhists? I just couldn't listen anymore. The beliefs that I had always had in my heart were different than what they were preaching anyway.
)o( Blessed Be!
2007-09-09 15:36:35 · answer #8 · answered by whillow95 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry, I was actually the other way around... I came to Christ after years as a neo-pagan who followed the Egyptian pantheon...
2007-09-09 15:04:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I still don't understand why that particular conversion is so popular. Why can't they just become atheists? What's the use in merely switching religions?
2007-09-09 15:02:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋