(June 7, 2015 at 10:41 pm)IATIA Wrote:(June 7, 2015 at 10:36 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Now I have a couple of questions, though, about your last two sentences. How devout were your parents, and why did they suck so bad at indoctrination? There might be one simple answer for both questions, but maybe not, so I have it as a compound rather than just stoppig with the first conjunct.
My Dad was a protestant and my Mom a catholic. My Mom felt that we should be baptised, just in case. So basically, I was baptised under Pascal's wager. Neither really practised, though there was the mostly weekly sunday services and catechism. My Mom was excommunicated twice.
Okay. Your failure to believe can be credited to your parents doing a piss-poor job of indoctrination.
I was raised in a family that took religion seriously. The consequences were that it took me years of thinking about it before I threw it out as the garbage it is. Still, I was in serious doubt as a teenager, and when I was 18, I was properly an agnostic, though I did not identify as that. In my early 20's, I was a strong atheist.
If I had room for a third thing to appear about me here (as opposed to just the two things, my religious views, and my custom title), I would say that I am an 11/7 atheist on the Dawkins scale.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
