|
Age of Deconversion
|
 Age of Deconversion
November 19, 2019 at 9:50 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2019 at 9:51 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
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?
Unoficially I had doubts when I was 8 or 9.
Officially I think I was 13. Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" 
Thirteen. But then a lot of things changed around that age.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
I had my doubts when I was in the single digits. I still got confirmed when I was 14, by which point, I was all but explicitly an atheist, but only because I had a Line 6 Variax on the line.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png) I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad. 
I'm with the Valks.
(November 19, 2019 at 10:12 pm)brewer Wrote: Thirteen. But then a lot of things changed around that age. Until then you were a woman named Vanessa? Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" RE: Age of Deconversion
November 19, 2019 at 10:53 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2019 at 10:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What counts as being raised in the church?
The answer for me, depending on the answer to that, is sometime between my birth and my first memory...and I remember shit that happened when I was 2.....
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!
 RE: Age of Deconversion
November 19, 2019 at 11:20 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2019 at 11:21 pm by EgoDeath.)
I mean its no surprise. Thats around the age when one starts thinking for themselves, questioning authority and cultural and/or societal norms. Of course that happens at different times for different people. But puberty is that time for a lot of people. Whats so surprising about that?
Though i started identifying as an atheist in my mid to late teens, if i look back, i dont think i honestly ever believed in god. I think wanted to, because i was "supposed to," according to my parents and society and whatnot, but i didnt, really. I didnt feel it in my heart like many seem to. I suppose i was always an atheist.
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.
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.
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!
 (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. Naughty girl, exposing that he had an addadictomy at that tender age.  BoT, I was in a catechism class at some pre-pubescent age and asked a question about some inexplicable concept of a nun, only to receive the response, "We that's one of God's mysteries". If an adult can't give a decent answer to a young child, the concept is bullshit...and I was a little kid. I remember how one of my sons (now 33 YoA) who told me years ago that he realized that some adults weren't all that smart...at age 8.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
|
|
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
