(February 18, 2014 at 12:28 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: For those of us who never believed but were raised in religious households why do you think religion never stuck? (Not that some of its effects didn't) just the belief in god(s)?
My household wasn't very religious but both my parents believed. It just wasn't a subject that mattered at all or was even discussed. We had bible stories, church events and little things like that.
I think the reason it never stuck on me is my parents were more superstitious than anything else. Ghosts, demons, psychic powers, luck, omens and god, all those kinds of things were all taken half seriously as a thing to be concerned with just in case. I was always suspicious of all of it, I wanted to know for sure. If there were powers I wanted them if there were monsters/ghosts/demons I wanted them gone.
So.. I spent a lot of time as a kid finding anything I could about everything supernatural. I was already skeptical about the whole thing and the more I heard the more I called bullshit on all of it. I think I crossed off God in my head when I was in primary school (I was 8-9). We had prayer and hymns at school every day and I felt like I was being tricked or manipulated with the idea. Plus I called bullshit that prayers weren't answered because *insert multitude of bullshit excuses here*.
