Feel Embarassed or regret by ones religous past?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Honestly not calling you out, mate, but could you expand on what you meant by 'wrong ethnicity'?

Boru

Being White in pre-1900 Japan. Being Black in America. Being a Palestinian in Israel. Being a Jew in Nazi Germany. Etc. There are places and situations where it is socially disadvantageous to be of a certain race, and there are still a shitton of racists in the world.

Ta, but I didn't ask you, and your answer makes no sense. If your ethnicity is persecuted, it doesn't mean your were born into a 'wrong ethnicity'.

Boru

[KUSA]

I regret giving hard earned money away.

[bladevalant546]

Thanks for answers, being a preachers kid an raised in the church. I am now coming to terms with a lot of scars that I did not even know I had. I thought going agnostic and abandoning would help a little. However, years of suppressing of personality and therapy for my own "porn addictions". Not to mention my own "preaching" towards other people that might have come off intolerant, I do feel rather ashamed of my own ignorance.

[RobbyPants]

Does anyone ever feel embarrassed or regretful of how they acted due to their past association with being part of a religion?

The only regret I have is ten years ago, I voted for a constitutional amendment in Michigan to not allow gay marriage.

The only embarrassment comes from my deliberate self-deception. Even then, I knew my arguments weren't good, but I just wanted to believe.

The rest of it doesn't bother me too much.

[bladevalant546]

I can get that Robby, I have the same feelings of remorse. thanks for sharing.

[LivingNumbers6.626]

All the time! But there is a sort of pride that develops from knowing that I had the ability to stand up for my ideas and arguments and eventually walk away happier. It was a very good learning experience at best.

[FlowingFlame]

Can't really claim to have a religious past. I used to pray a lot when I was a kid but there was so much coercion and fear attached to it that I can't really say it was any personal quest to find God, I just didn't want my father to beat me again. I remember most of my prayers being interrupted by obsessive thoughts about other girls anyway.

The non-personal pursuit wasn't much better, I don't think I ever really bought into the mythology. I remember being told to stop asking questions during sunday school lessons after completely derailing one by asking who Cain's wife was. I never experienced the friendly community aspects of the faith when I was a kid so the indoctrination didn't stick with me. By the time I was free of the threats and coercion I was too old for the fluffy magical aspect to seem honest or appealing. I suppose I should be grateful that I was able to start my life in the right direction rather than ending up as some deeply closeted baby farm begging the ceiling to have the "sinful thoughts" taken from me. ~shudders~

[Mystic]

It feels like it wasn't my fault.

[DramaQueen]

I kinda feel bad when I hear about people who lost their faith at 13.
I only completely lost it last year at 17.

But I'm from a country in the MENA region, which is "one hundred percent" muslims, so I don't know.

[jughead]

OP, no.

It was how I was indoctrinated and I didn't know better.