RE: how old were you
January 24, 2015 at 2:37 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2015 at 2:37 pm by Darkstar.)
I stopped believing sometime midway through my junior year of high school.
I had to go to CCD once a week from second through eighth grade, but we never really learned anything. Looking back, maybe that was because there isn't much you can cover before you get to something grossly immoral. Ironically, I think that the fact they taught me so little artificially extended my theism. I was never a very avid believer, so I didn't really read the Bible much. Once I actually started thinking about religion, I almost immediately became agnostic, and soon after, atheist. If they had attempted to push religion on me more aggressively, it may very well have backfired (though if they had done so starting from a very young age, I don't know what might have resulted from it).
(January 24, 2015 at 2:24 pm)robvalue Wrote: I'm sure it depends on how hard indoctrination is pushed. In my case I never received any religious "education" from my parents so I was lucky there.
I had to go to CCD once a week from second through eighth grade, but we never really learned anything. Looking back, maybe that was because there isn't much you can cover before you get to something grossly immoral. Ironically, I think that the fact they taught me so little artificially extended my theism. I was never a very avid believer, so I didn't really read the Bible much. Once I actually started thinking about religion, I almost immediately became agnostic, and soon after, atheist. If they had attempted to push religion on me more aggressively, it may very well have backfired (though if they had done so starting from a very young age, I don't know what might have resulted from it).
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
