(July 28, 2015 at 5:25 pm)abaris Wrote:(July 28, 2015 at 4:43 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Well, my mom always said, "The Lord helps those who help themselves" -- it was the preachers I listened to who urged me to prayer instead of labor. Mom is a practical woman, always has been.
The preachers are a different matter entirely. But I kicked the habit of listening to them when they told us kids, god would take what's most dear to us if we sin. For a while I was scared shitless, but after that another feeling took over. I didn't want anything to do with a god behaving that way. It was my first step towards atheism - as a 7 year old, since I didn't want to believe in or pray to such a creature.
I wish I'd had your insight at that age; I was a potato back then, full of preprogrammed thoughts, incapable of thinking for myself. My journey to reason started later and lasted longer, I think.
