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Was anybody here raised non-Christian?

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Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
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RE: Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
January 17, 2013 at 11:11 pm
I was raised to be what I wanted to be.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
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RE: Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
January 17, 2013 at 11:20 pm
Born and bread Atheist and my dislike for religion got stronger.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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RE: Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
January 18, 2013 at 3:22 am
Yeah I would say I wasn't brought up in a religious way.I was encouraged to form my own views and opinions and decide those kinds of things myself.Which is how it should be,but that is not the case,guess child abuse isn't completely illegal after all.
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RE: Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
January 18, 2013 at 3:20 pm
Like many of you I was raised Catholic, isn't it astounding how many of us ended up athiests? If there's an argument against the Catholic church if ever I saw one it's with the amount of people who grow up and get as far the fuck away from it as possible.
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RE: Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
January 18, 2013 at 3:24 pm
My religious upbringing amounted to some old guy putting magic tap-water on my forehead some time before I can remember. Other than that my parents weren't fussed.
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RE: Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
January 18, 2013 at 3:28 pm
(January 17, 2013 at 11:11 pm)Polaris Wrote: I was raised to be what I wanted to be.

Its your choice to be as you are?
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RE: Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
January 18, 2013 at 5:26 pm

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RE: Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
January 18, 2013 at 5:29 pm
I was raised not-very-religious christian. Never went to church. Had a children's bible with Jesus stories in it. Was taught not to hate Gays, etc. My father never showed interest in religion; it was my mother's idea but she's like a pantheistic Buddhist now or something.
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RE: Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
January 18, 2013 at 6:05 pm
Notice how most people here were raised as 'not that religious' Christians? That's not because it's the secret path to Atheism, it's because the majority of the country (The US anyway) is not very religious Christians.

My mother is a Jew who Converted to Catholicism. I often tell people that I was raised to feel guiltier than any other human.
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RE: Was anybody here raised non-Christian?
January 18, 2013 at 6:22 pm
Raised in a secular Jewish (culturally speaking) home.

Both my sister and I were brought up to think for ourselves.

She became a biologist that is vaguely 'spiritual'. I am an agnostic atheist.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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