(September 14, 2018 at 11:13 pm)Bahana Wrote: I have been curious about this for a while. For those of you who were not raised in a religious family, did you think that gave you an advantage not having superstitious beliefs as a child? Did it help you develop critical thinking skills earlier or did you still have some supernatural beliefs?
My parents were religious because their parents were and most of our town was. It was just a thing that you did on Sundays because it was expected in the community. It was more social and political than anything. They needed to look good for the neighbors and business community. My parents didn't squeal all that bad when I jumped off the soul train.
I'm sure that I had some childhood superstitions in my preteen years, but then so did all of the other kids I hung around with. I'm not sure why I broke away from religion when most of the others didn't, but I know that they gave up some childhood superstitions also. Certainly won't claim that I had better critical thinking skills than those that continued to believe.
Maybe you should identify some of the superstitions you refer to.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
