Hello Everyone, thanks for having me!
I was a Catholic most of my life until the last couple of years, I'm now in my mid 20's. I had it heavily rammed down my throat as far back as I can remember. I was constantly being asked if I prayed or not when I was younger and even until my early 20's about praying the rosary, etc. I couldn't do anything without my dad asking me if I prayed or did this moronic ritual or whatever. I consider myself relatively intelligent, but was fooled for a long time. I remember when I was 10-12 years old using critical thinking skills like, "Why would Jesus decide to come 2,000 years ago when humans have been around for about 150,000 years?" A lot of things never made sense to me like people living to 900 years old and why being gay was wrong. If I had one person around me that was non catholic or non christian I could have talked to, I would have been an atheist much sooner, but I was too afraid of hell at that age with the heavy dose of brainwashing. After seeing absolutely nothing from prayer my whole life, thinking other religions were nuts but starting to think the same thing about mine, questioning bible verses..I then decided I had enough, I went online and did some research and fell out of the insanity I believed in my whole life that very day. It took me about 4 months to finally fall out of the god belief after watching much of Hitchens, Dawkins, and other intelligent people online debate and express their opinions.
Sorry for the long story, it feels good to get some of it out. I'm still obsessed with religion the way people that watch the news all day are obsessed with politics. I'm very anti most religions, with exception of some that don't preach hatred and threaten children with eternal torment. I'm still surrounded by insanely delusional people, but have a brother who I found out recently is an agnostic, so that's awesome. At least I have a place to vent a little now.
Thanks, have a good day!
I was a Catholic most of my life until the last couple of years, I'm now in my mid 20's. I had it heavily rammed down my throat as far back as I can remember. I was constantly being asked if I prayed or not when I was younger and even until my early 20's about praying the rosary, etc. I couldn't do anything without my dad asking me if I prayed or did this moronic ritual or whatever. I consider myself relatively intelligent, but was fooled for a long time. I remember when I was 10-12 years old using critical thinking skills like, "Why would Jesus decide to come 2,000 years ago when humans have been around for about 150,000 years?" A lot of things never made sense to me like people living to 900 years old and why being gay was wrong. If I had one person around me that was non catholic or non christian I could have talked to, I would have been an atheist much sooner, but I was too afraid of hell at that age with the heavy dose of brainwashing. After seeing absolutely nothing from prayer my whole life, thinking other religions were nuts but starting to think the same thing about mine, questioning bible verses..I then decided I had enough, I went online and did some research and fell out of the insanity I believed in my whole life that very day. It took me about 4 months to finally fall out of the god belief after watching much of Hitchens, Dawkins, and other intelligent people online debate and express their opinions.
Sorry for the long story, it feels good to get some of it out. I'm still obsessed with religion the way people that watch the news all day are obsessed with politics. I'm very anti most religions, with exception of some that don't preach hatred and threaten children with eternal torment. I'm still surrounded by insanely delusional people, but have a brother who I found out recently is an agnostic, so that's awesome. At least I have a place to vent a little now.
Thanks, have a good day!
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
Salacious!
Thank you for telling us your story here and on my other thread. You've done really well to break out of the delusion. It must be tough when you're surrounded by it and don't have a voice of reason to balance things.
