RE: Have You Guys...
July 22, 2018 at 12:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2018 at 12:16 pm by Whateverist.)
Nope. In early elementary school I believed in a wise old, Christian god who'd spent some time in human form and was waiting to meet me after death to reflect on all the choices I'd made in life and to answer any questions I might have. I was raised with only a few hints of what God was and what Christians believed so I elaborated quite a bit. I decided that to be fit company for the god that was waiting to chat with me after death I would need to be thoroughly independent in my thinking and my choices; I wouldn't have known the word then but I was certain God would be disappointed/bored by sycophants. I don't think I thought much about a god's role in putting the world together. I wouldn't have given that any thought. My family stopped attending church before I started kindergarten and I never looked in a bible, so I had it pretty easy.
But by later elementary school the independence of mind I was cultivating to please God led me to doubt him instead. It was a little disappointing to lose the expectation of a post-life debriefing and opportunity to ask clarifying questions, but I got over it pretty easily. It was just one more thing one puts away when moving on from being a child.
But by later elementary school the independence of mind I was cultivating to please God led me to doubt him instead. It was a little disappointing to lose the expectation of a post-life debriefing and opportunity to ask clarifying questions, but I got over it pretty easily. It was just one more thing one puts away when moving on from being a child.
