My dad owned two stores selling car supplies. He was a mechanic by trade and he was very interested in all kinds of scientific stuff. Astronomy and physics foremost. I'm an idiot when it comes to natural sciences, but his influence made me interested in the world and how it works. I inherited his love for cars though and before I could even read, I could name any car by the sound of it's engine. They sounded very characteristic back in the 60ies. There was never any bullshit talk about Adam and Eve, instead we made frequent trips to all kinds of museums, natural history among them. I loved to look at dinosaur skelettons and never ever doubted that they were very old although I couldn't quite grasp the concept of millions of years.
I can't remember a single instance when my family talked about religion although we were Easter and Christmas catholics when I was a child.
Point is, if you're brought up in an environment where you're encouraged to aks questions and where you're also encouraged to look at what science presents us with, religion doesn't find very much of an opening. There's no need for active indoctrination when everything you have to do is presenting an open and intelligent environment.
I can't remember a single instance when my family talked about religion although we were Easter and Christmas catholics when I was a child.
Point is, if you're brought up in an environment where you're encouraged to aks questions and where you're also encouraged to look at what science presents us with, religion doesn't find very much of an opening. There's no need for active indoctrination when everything you have to do is presenting an open and intelligent environment.
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