(June 8, 2015 at 7:33 pm)IATIA Wrote: Like I said in the OP, belief is not necessary, but the heavy exposure is what we are looking for. I think church every sunday counts.
The purpose of the poll and the thread is to show the christians that we have been there and done that. They seem to think that we are talking out our ass. Some have commented often that "if you guys had only ...". Well. we have heard all their cute little Sunday church stories and whether or not we believed at the time, the stories only pushed us away. (Especially when we started asking questions in public)
Fair enough, but that's more about whether or not Christianity was given a fair try. I thinking asking if someone was ever a Christian pertains to whether or that person believed in Christianity beyond the age of reason. Perhaps I should have read the OP more carefully.
Still, despite the fact that I went to church every Sunday, I don't consider myself very educated on Christianity. I remember the basics like salvation and the resurrection, but the only bible verse I know is John 3:16. None of what was being taught at Sunday school really sunk in, because I was too busy trying to figure out why the stories I was being fed seemed fishy. By the time I was 12, I realized it was bogus enough that I had completely tuned it all out.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to consider me ever having been a Christian.
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
