I voted "never," although I'm not sure it's technically accurate. I was raised by Christians that were extremely milquetoast towards religion except for the fact they took me to church every Sunday. They never even brought up the discussion of god and Christianity once in my entire life. They just insisted I go to church every Sunday. I may not have actively disbelieved in Christianity, but even at a young age I could tell there were major holes in the stories I was being peddled at Sunday School. By the time I was ten or so I had concluded that this whole Jesus thing had been misconstrued and that there was some dude who tried to get everyone to be nice to each other and people called him god for it. It wasn't until I was twelve or so that I realized the whole God thing was severely flawed itself and Christianity was obviously silly.
I wasn't really anything beyond Christian by association, and I think that's good enough for a "never."
I wasn't really anything beyond Christian by association, and I think that's good enough for a "never."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
