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Age of Deconversion
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24ish I think.
Before that I was too afraid to think anything that could get the god mad at me. It was scary in my head.
"Hipster is what happens when young hot people do what old ladies do." -Exian
Jack, you vampire, you never age. :-)
I believed in god up to about 22-24, although I also believed I would go to hell for sure, so I just did what I wanted to anyway. 
I think it's fair say that I was 'raised in the Church' - Catholic schools, Mass every Sunday, catechism classes (for the last, I won a small silver crucifix. I think I've still got it). Pretty much the lot.
But I don't think there was a time when I stopped believing in God, for the simple fact that I can't recall a time when I did believe. As far back as I can remember, I thought it was just another set of fairy stories, some of them quite interesting, most of them not so much. I more or less equated them with the Red Branch stories (which I also never thought were true). Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
I attended Catholic schools from kindergarten through high school, so it took me quite a few years to overcome all that religious brainwashing. I openly called myself an agnostic midway through my army service in Vietnam. An article titled The Agnostic's Dilemma appeared in the Oct., 1982 issue of THE AMERICAN ATHEIST which was an epiphany for me. I realized, upon reading it, that I was an atheist and probably had been for a few years. I was 34 at the time.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
 (November 19, 2019 at 10:35 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(November 19, 2019 at 10:12 pm)brewer Wrote: Thirteen. But then a lot of things changed around that age. Was outing my side show history really necessary?
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
I was raised Pentecostal and I was very devout up until about age 15-16. I felt like I should know more about what God expects from me, so I read the KJV Bible cover-to-cover. Then I read it again in a Modern English version to make sure I was understanding it correctly. That cured me of being a Christian; however it would be about 20 more years before I gave up belief in God entirely.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
 (November 19, 2019 at 9:50 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: I've noticed that 12-14 seem to be a common age for people to leave Christianity. To those who were raised in the church, at what age did you stop believing in God? I don't know that I grew up believing in god, it was more like the concept was merely staggering in the background of our lives. I officially knew god did not exist when I read the works of Robert Green Ingersoll around the age of twenty.  (November 19, 2019 at 11:25 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: I never had that influence. The beliefs in my family range from christain fundamentalism to amorphous paganism, but everyone loved all of us more than they loved their own beliefs..so we never got the "supposed too"s. Just a ton of different churches and stories. Yours sounds like a unique situation
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
RE: Age of Deconversion
November 20, 2019 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2019 at 1:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Not where I'm from, lol..but sure, florida is generally strange. Beaches attract all the nutters.
More to the core of the statement, though, I don't think that it's actually strange for parents to love their children more than they love their own beliefs.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
I was told I resisted indoctrination when I was 3 or 4, but I don't remember that.
I clearly remember leaving the faith completely at 17, after a 4 year long journey of doubts starting around 13 years old.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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