Apologist Matt Slick's atheist daughter tells of her experience growing up

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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...her-story/

FYI Matt Slick is the founder of the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry (CARM), and all in all is a bit of a fundie. Rachael's account of how she was brought up is a good guide on how to indoctrinate and retard a child's developing mind.

Interesting, especially because for all intents and purposes she was a fundie herself as well versed in the theological underpinnings of her faith as any theist I have ever met online or personally. And she was undone by the very same debates we often see on here (origin of morality and the contradictions of an omni-faceted god and 'right and wrong'). A lot of parallels can be drawn in her testimony and the debates we have here, so worth a read.

Atheists frequently wonder how an otherwise rational Christian can live and die without seeing the light of science, and I believe the answer to this is usually environment. If every friend, authority figure, and informational source in your life constantly repeat the same ideas, it is difficult not to believe they’re onto something. My world was built of “reasonable” Christians — the ones who thought, who questioned, who knew that what they believed was true. In the face of this strength, my own doubts seemed petty.