(November 7, 2014 at 10:01 am)JonDarbyXIII Wrote: What I want to know is.. was I naive as a child, or are there other people who just didn't know they had options?
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These are not mutually exclusive propositions. A lot of people (like myself and I'm sure many on this board) were naive as children and young adults, but that's excusable. When all you get from your parents is one slant, it's hard to realize that there are other possibilities out there.
When I told my father I was an atheist, I tried to give him some of my thinking and reasons. I told him it was to try to help him understand where I was coming from. He said "you can talk until you're blue in the face and I won't understand where you're coming from. If you told me you were struggling with Christianity, or didn't know what religion you believed, I could understand." A lot of parents think like this, and that's why a lot of children know they have options but don't realize that atheism is one of them.
