Former believers, did you feel religion scammed you?

[Captain Colostomy]

Dodging the hard questions? Maybe you would just ground your kids if they didn't feel like worshipping your god, right? Yeah, that makes it all better.

Conjecture...

What tipped you off? The word 'maybe'?

You started this, remember...your angry atheist comment? You obviously wanted to stir the pot, so to that end, congrats.

Howza bout answering the question(s) directed to you now?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Born without religion, never gave it much thought. By the time it came knocking on my door I was too old for it to take root and it quickly withered and died.

I'm the same. I was never indoctrinated into a religion and people who have tried to convert me since have all fallen way short.

[Rahul]

I feel embarrassed that I used to be a christian. I also I feel jealous for those that were never in a faith. Is there anyone else that feels this way?

I don't feel embarrassed that I used to be a Christian. I was indoctrinated from birth by my parents and community to believe in it. As a child you take adult opinions as truth without skepticism.

It would be easy to be an atheist if you were never indoctrinated in a religion.

However, only one in twelve people raised in a religion are ever able to deconvert.

I'm one of those rare individuals that threw off the mental shackles of religion through critical thinking.

I'm rather proud of that accomplishment.

[CleanShavenJesus]

Did religion scam me? I mean, I didn't lose that much money donating to the basket at church. No, I don't think I was scammed. That's a strange question.

[CapnAwesome]

Religion bored me as a kid. Recollecting that's my main feeling. I guess it scammed me out of Sunday mornings and Wednesday afternoons. That's about it. I do think it's scammed so many other people though. You really need to be an adult believer to be scammed however.

[catfish]

Conjecture...

What tipped you off? The word 'maybe'?

You started this, remember...your angry atheist comment? You obviously wanted to stir the pot, so to that end, congrats.

Howza bout answering the question(s) directed to you now?

Kindly fuck off. Do you need clarification of what that means?

[ITChick]

My dad (recently) apologised to me for raising me religiously. I told him not to worry. For some reason all four of his children decided that it was "not real" without any external influences at all. So he probably taught us how to think as well.

This is completely different from my "bigger family" where a cousin of mine recently did not want to come and visit me because I'm "Living in Sin" with my boyfriend. Never mind that I'm in a much happier/more stable relationship than with my ex-husband. We are living in sin...

[Bad Writer]

What tipped you off? The word 'maybe'?

You started this, remember...your angry atheist comment? You obviously wanted to stir the pot, so to that end, congrats.

Howza bout answering the question(s) directed to you now?

Kindly fuck off. Do you need clarification of what that means?

The "kindly fuck off" bit was at first extended as a warning if you were to agree in punishing a child for not wanting to worship something. I'm getting the impression that this question makes you uneasy, as you know it's your Christian duty to get them while they're young, but you also don't want people to think of you as a bad person for using vile methods of indoctrination (or any indoctrination, for that matter). Your response may just indicate that you should fuck off entirely, sans kindness.

[Captain Colostomy]

What tipped you off? The word 'maybe'?

You started this, remember...your angry atheist comment? You obviously wanted to stir the pot, so to that end, congrats.

Howza bout answering the question(s) directed to you now?

Kindly fuck off. Do you need clarification of what that means?

Simmer down, Scooter. Recall...you didn't engage the OP, you engaged a respondent, and not in a jovial manner, either. What did you expect? Deference?

[viocjit]

I feel scammed because my whole life the main goal of my life was being a good Christian to avoid the Hell.
Among the funny things I can cite the next facts.

1.I was never been baptised. (Because my parents are cafetaria catholics [for my mother I don't know exactly. She's probably Apatheist or Agnostic. Also because I still doubted and I desired being honest with God.]).
2.Nearby my whole life I believed that the creator choose me for an important mission.
3.When I was 12 or 13 years old I became a conspiracy theorist. Because these conspiracy theories confort me in the belief that the eternal gave to me a mission.
4.I made researches to find the right christian denomination. I can't found it.
5.I know that evolution theory is true since my 8 years old. (All these years I thought that the Genesis is only an allegory to explain sin etc... but when I read it at the age of 16 or 17 years old I can't understood the sens of this text. Now I know that this isn't an allegory like it contain the beliefs of a group of human from the Ancient world).

Now I know that I lived in a delusion nearby my whole life.

Viocjit , Atheist , ex-conspiracy theorist and ex-Christian.

PS : I know that in my profile it's write "Agnostic Christian" I'll change it that in my profile when I will write my deconversion story.