I had the authoritarian parents. I went to church up to 3x a week up until I was 16. I never remember believing. I do remember, however, having a sense for what adults wanted to hear, so I was good at faking it. I kept that shit up until I was in college. I remember (with shame now) sending my mom an email filled with stuff from the Da Vinci Code explaining that I am an atheist. I wish I could recover that email. I sent it from my Naval Academy email address. Oh, were it possible to recover that fucking email!
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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