How long have you been going through your atheism 'phase'?
Fifteen years and counting here... :)
2007-11-04 08:54:20 · 10 answers · asked by Doc Occam 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good point. I forget how reviled Wicca is among Christians.
Alternately, how long have you been going through your Wicca 'phase'?
2007-11-04 08:59:55 · update #1
My parents never used that particular statement in regards to my beliefs...
I have been an Atheist for 26 years... For the first 5-6 years I thought I was the only one and didn't actually know there was a name for people who believe as I do...
Imagine my delight when I found there was a name and I was not the only one..
2007-11-04 09:04:43 · answer #1 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How does anyone go through their phase of unbelieve? There are congregations in church for generations that do the same. Active in the building; God says will be a house of prayer. Got their name on the door post and their foot in the way causing many to trip and fall. What is your point?
God sends some to help and those are the ones that think they are doing God a service by running people away. God lets them see they have convictions. They do not want to see that. They think "I am good"! Fifteen years and counting.
2007-11-04 09:18:53 · answer #2 · answered by God is love. 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My mothers and dads and grandparents got here from very humble beginnings. i think of that if my mothers and dads have been alive in the present day they'd say that their "sturdy old days" have been whilst my older sister and that i've got been in grade college and intense college (in the 50's). That replaced into the time whilst we've been the main "rich". My dad had a sturdy stable pastime, we had a tidy little domicile with a sturdy roof, and with my mom's money administration skills, we've been waiting to pay the expenses. something that had previously been particularly confusing. We in no way had something left over for frills, yet we had food on the table and garments on our backs whether they have been each so often hand me downs from kindly friends. each so often there would be new socks, underclothes and there replaced into continuously a sparkling pair of boots wherein to start college in September. I each so often talk approximately and yearn for the cases whilst we had the innovations-blowing to have bible college taught by way of a missionary in my public grade college. A time whilst all training began the day with the "Pledge of Allegiance" and discovered with regard to the founding fathers and how significant it replaced into to them to incorporate God in each determination they made on an identical time as writing the form. A time whilst if absolutely everyone had on going sin in there life, they knew it and knew sufficient to be embarrassed approximately it. The issues that have been seen scandalous in those days are actually seen "sturdy gossip" and not something greater. they are actually purely "what occurs", "no vast deal",and absolutely everyone who thinks that those issues are nevertheless scandalous are purely "old and old-formed", or worse.
2016-11-10 06:39:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
apparently i have bee going through my wicca and the occult phase for about four years now
2007-11-04 09:22:35 · answer #4 · answered by btvs.witch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, mine never said that of my atheism.
My father was dissappointed that I didn't embrace his sort of vague theism (which wasn't 'Religious' at all); my mother, a Unitarian, has no problem with it at all; though she has encouraged me to go to the local Unitarian church (because they accept atheists in their fold, as it were).
I don't know the exact year I realized I didn't believe; more than 35 years.
And counting, of course.
2007-11-04 12:03:25 · answer #5 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been 13 years since I put Christianity behind me and 11 years since I discovered a name for my faith. Still Pagan.
2007-11-04 10:22:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vocal atheist? Hmm....13 years and counting. But I think I've always been an atheist, since it *never* made any sense to me.
2007-11-04 08:58:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure there are some Wiccans and Pagans here who can identify with that.
2007-11-04 08:57:31 · answer #8 · answered by Cheryl E 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
idk... about a year probly since i realized i was... before i was just some guy that never really cared about religion. but anyways... seems to me like parents say "just a phase" for an excuse not to worry about something they don't like.
2007-11-04 09:06:17 · answer #9 · answered by Jeef 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll get wiser as you get older.
2007-11-04 08:58:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 7⤋