"IF" there was a God....

[Thor]

This is also found to be true in Christianity. This era was known as the dark ages.

Interesting that the period when religion ruled is known as "The Dark Ages", and the period when science and reason took hold is called "The Enlightenment".

As most of you started out in a church of some kind as as you spiritually matured you saw the flaws in your religions, and left God because you assumed that God was completely represented by what you started out believing.

Actually, I didn't "leave God". Since this deity is imaginary, there was nothing to leave. And being dragged to church is what set me on the path to atheism! As I matured, I discovered there were other religions with beliefs completely different from my own. I began to question why this was. Wouldn't "God" instruct people on how they were to behave and what rituals they were to perform? Then why so many different belief systems? And if other religions were wrong, why should I think that my religion was right? Why couldn't they ALL be wrong? Because they most certainly can't all be right. This was the seed that eventually resulted in my conclusion that religions are crap and the deities they worship are not real.

Being born into a religion can be a blessing or it can be a curse. It depends on the person.

Being born into a religion is never a blessing. The kid is led to believe that incredible nonsense is true. At a minimum, this causes the child to grow up and waste their time and money going to church. At worst, it leads to ignorance (like believing the Earth is less than 10,000 years old) and life threatening stupidity (like praying for a cure instead of seeing a doctor, or refusing blood transfusions).