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[The Valkyrie]

Catholic until around the age 13.

Now 20 years clean.

[Whateverist]

Catholic until around the age 13.

Now 20 years clean.

Have you ever had to call someone else in your program to keep you from binge confessing?

Looks like I've got about a third of century more under my belt than you.

[Kernel Sohcahtoa]

Always been atheists? I got rid of it more or less when I quit believing in the drunk bastard dressed in red and had a beard.

Thanks for your inquiry, Icy; BTW, welcome to AF.  I would say that as a child and throughout my teenage years, I was more or less a product of the various thought processes, values, philosophies, etc., that I had obtained from others via social learning and social/cultural norms.   Once I started appreciating the value of ideas, acquiring knowledge, and coming to my own conclusions about various matters (during my college years and after), I became more of an independent, free thinker and came to embrace the fact that I do not have all of the answers, nor can I make any definitive statements about reality and what it is, which IMO, encourages more intellectual exploration/curiosity than fear.

[The Valkyrie]

Catholic until around the age 13.

Now 20 years clean.

Have you ever had to call someone else in your program to keep you from binge confessing?

Looks like I've got about a third of century more under my belt than you.

No.

Those who feel the need to get back into Catholicism are warned once and then ritually slaughtered in honour of the Dark One.

[Whateverist]

Have you ever had to call someone else in your program to keep you from binge confessing?

Looks like I've got about a third of century more under my belt than you.

No.

Those who feel the need to get back into Catholicism are warned once and then ritually slaughtered in honour of the Dark One.

More than fair.

[The Valkyrie]

No.

Those who feel the need to get back into Catholicism are warned once and then ritually slaughtered in honour of the Dark One.

More than fair.

And people say I over react at times.

?

[Astreja]

For all intents and purposes I've been a non-believer all along. My parents were not churchgoers; I think my mother went to exactly one Easter service while I was a kid.

I tried to figure out how religion worked because it was something that so many people I knew were involved in, but I've never been able to switch off my internal "Yeah, riiiight..." generator and have never been able to wholeheartedly believe the tenets of any religion.