(June 21, 2014 at 3:28 pm)Holden Caulfield Wrote: I didn't talk to my dad about religion (let him say his nonsense) for years and years. Only the past year did I ever have a real conversation with him about it. He dismissed my views (based on reason) as a "phase". Yeah I'm 25. I've felt the same way since I was 11. I'm sure that's a "phase". I'll find the light one day I'm sureWon't be bringing it back up to him.
That sounds very familiar. I released I didn't believe very early. I didn't tell my folks until it came time for confirmation. I had to then because I wasn't willing to stand up and swear to believe in something I didn't believe in. In fairness the pastor stood up for me. He didn't want an non-believer participating.
I was told it was an adolescent phase. I explained that I had never believed and had spent confirmation classes giving it a try. Don't think they every really believed about that.
Even now (I'm a little over 5), they "forget" I'm atheist, as if it might just go about like a cold.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
