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Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?
August 30, 2013 at 5:37 pm
I feel embarrassed that I used to be a christian. I also I feel jealous for those that were never in a faith. Is there anyone else that feels this way?
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?
August 30, 2013 at 5:45 pm
In short, yes.
Not necessarily jealous of those who were never religious but that's because I think that everything that happened in the past made me who I am today. And I'm very happy with who I am today. Plenty of bad things happened, religion wasn't the worst component of my life.
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RE: Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?
August 30, 2013 at 5:56 pm
I often wish I'd never been raised with religion, but on the other hand it gave me an insight to how religious people think.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?
August 30, 2013 at 5:57 pm
I was too young to care when I was taken from my Christian church (around age 10). But I do remember always being very bored by it. It seemed like such a sterile experience.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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RE: Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?
August 30, 2013 at 6:20 pm
Yes......
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RE: Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?
August 30, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Religion never really got much out of me in a tangible sense. It wasted my time more than anything else. I took whatever Christian nonsense I picked up as a kid for granted, but church services and Sunday school bored me for the most part. I only took the shit seriously in my early 20s.
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RE: Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?
August 30, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Born without religion, never gave it much thought. By the time it came knocking on my door I was too old for it to take root and it quickly withered and died.
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RE: Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?
August 30, 2013 at 10:38 pm
(August 30, 2013 at 6:30 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Born without religion, never gave it much thought. By the time it came knocking on my door I was too old for it to take root and it quickly withered and died.
Fortunate
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?
August 30, 2013 at 10:47 pm
No. My mother, for all her fundamentalist batshittery, never really forced it on me. (Other than regular church services til I was ten...and UCC at that...phew!) It's all background noise now. I lost nothing but Lone Ranger reruns Sunday mornings on PBS. The whole 'wrestling with god' bit wasn't a waste either...since I won. 
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RE: Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?
August 30, 2013 at 11:03 pm
Religion took about 21 years of my life. I can't get those back. So I'm going to fight back.
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