I was raised Catholic but none of it ever really took with me. The Bible stories I was told as a kid, I saw as just stories with some sort of lesson - or threat.
Moving to a Catholic town when I was 11 didn't help...no one seemed to practice what they supposedly believed in. I went to mass and to Catholic schools and still none of it really impressed me.
I went on a quest in my early 20s thinking that I HAD to believe in something religion-wise. I looked around and nothing spoke to me.
For the last ten or so years I have been active on atheist forums. I have learned more about the Bible and about other religions than I did in 7 years of Catholic school and 5 years of Catechism classes before that.
Moving to a Catholic town when I was 11 didn't help...no one seemed to practice what they supposedly believed in. I went to mass and to Catholic schools and still none of it really impressed me.
I went on a quest in my early 20s thinking that I HAD to believe in something religion-wise. I looked around and nothing spoke to me.
For the last ten or so years I have been active on atheist forums. I have learned more about the Bible and about other religions than I did in 7 years of Catholic school and 5 years of Catechism classes before that.