I was raised in a practicing Catholic family but can clearly remember from a young age wondering how it was that anybody could actually believe in any of the stupid things that I heard and read about in religion. I also very quickly became horrified with religious opinions on homosexuality, abortion, divorce, etc. I can honestly say that I have always felt repulsed by religion from as soon as I was able to think about it on my own. As an adult, I have studied religious history in depth and found the development of the religious "truths" taken for granted today to be a long story of hatred, fear and slaughter that we should be ashamed of.
My further education about and understanding of the universe as we know it suggests to me that there is no Creator and that, even if there were, it would be a Being so utterly removed from our human understanding and experience as to make it irrelevant to our existence here. I see no reason for there to be any afterlife and I made my peace with that too.
My view of religion now is that it is a fairytale, wrapped tightly in tradition, and that I'm far better off without it. My children know nothing of any God or religion and I hope they never will.
My further education about and understanding of the universe as we know it suggests to me that there is no Creator and that, even if there were, it would be a Being so utterly removed from our human understanding and experience as to make it irrelevant to our existence here. I see no reason for there to be any afterlife and I made my peace with that too.
My view of religion now is that it is a fairytale, wrapped tightly in tradition, and that I'm far better off without it. My children know nothing of any God or religion and I hope they never will.
