(January 6, 2016 at 8:40 pm)abaris Wrote:(January 6, 2016 at 8:35 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: You inherit a particular faith from your family and, unless you decide to leave it, you get comfortable in it.
But only if your parents enforce it. In my case, they didn't. They weren't areligious, let alone atheist, but they didn't force me to go to church, nor did they encourage me to read the bible. Although the gave me a children's bible when I was little, called the Pathmos bible. I still have it.
So, I grew up believing, but not really giving it any thought. I never reflected on what I believed, and the first time I did, I didn't believe anymore.
True, mine were never particularly strict and that's probably why I've ended up leaving it. But I mean in terms of the particular religion you inherit. I know more about Catholicism than I do Protestantism, despite being raised in a predominantly Protestant country. Family is everything in religion, I guess alongside a personal unwillingness to study alternative faiths.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
