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I was raised by my parents as a catholic (though my mother is protestant by religion). I did believe in god, the Bible and so on. I used to be an alter-boy for 3 years in the church of our village until I was 14 then I got to the secondary grammar school far away from home in a city. I wasn´t truly religious because I had questions which I couldn´t really put into words and I always felt that something is wrong with all this religion stuff. Although I can´t deny that I´ve learned a lot of positive things through religion and through our cleric who I liked very much.
Anyway, in the grammar school I got some of my questions answered and faith in god was replaced completely by racionalism. (Religions which praise one certain god aren´t true. They evolved because of certain economical and social changes in a certain area in a certain time. Every religion!)
Through the years my attitude to religion didn´t really changed, I do not believe in any god, I do believe in myself!
2 months ago I discovered an interesting writing on the net, this one: Socrates Meets Jesus [link]
It´s quite long but it is worth reading it! After this I felt that every question I had and couldn´t put into words were answered I had no doubts anymore. Living without a religion means for me the freedom of my inner soul. (A soul can exist even without a religion.)
I was raised by my parents as a catholic (though my mother is protestant by religion). I did believe in god, the Bible and so on. I used to be an alter-boy for 3 years in the church of our village until I was 14 then I got to the secondary grammar school far away from home in a city. I wasn´t truly religious because I had questions which I couldn´t really put into words and I always felt that something is wrong with all this religion stuff. Although I can´t deny that I´ve learned a lot of positive things through religion and through our cleric who I liked very much.
Anyway, in the grammar school I got some of my questions answered and faith in god was replaced completely by racionalism. (Religions which praise one certain god aren´t true. They evolved because of certain economical and social changes in a certain area in a certain time. Every religion!)
Through the years my attitude to religion didn´t really changed, I do not believe in any god, I do believe in myself!
2 months ago I discovered an interesting writing on the net, this one: Socrates Meets Jesus [link]
It´s quite long but it is worth reading it! After this I felt that every question I had and couldn´t put into words were answered I had no doubts anymore. Living without a religion means for me the freedom of my inner soul. (A soul can exist even without a religion.)
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Hah. My story is somewhat similar to yours.
I was baptized a catholic, and always simply took religion for something normal as a child.
I never really believed, though, because from a fairly young age onward, I figured out that there was no actual god anywhere - just like I figured out there was no actual easter bunny or santa claus, even though adults always pretended there was.
I thought that the whole "god" thing was similar, adults always pretended that he existed for some reason, and I thought it was simply normal, simply the way the world worked.
It took me until my teens to realize there were people who actually, genuinely believed that the christian god really exists, which immediately struck me as a mixture of comical and sad. To me, it was like realizing that some people actually believed that santa claus was real and just didn't get that their parents put the presents under the tree.
Eventually, I started reading the bible. By then I was old enough and mature enough to realize that this belief system was actually some pretty dangerous shit. I never understood how people could delude themselves this way. The more I learned, the more I opposed religion. Now I'm here on DA and rage against religious people. Fun stuff.
I was baptized a catholic, and always simply took religion for something normal as a child.
I never really believed, though, because from a fairly young age onward, I figured out that there was no actual god anywhere - just like I figured out there was no actual easter bunny or santa claus, even though adults always pretended there was.
I thought that the whole "god" thing was similar, adults always pretended that he existed for some reason, and I thought it was simply normal, simply the way the world worked.
It took me until my teens to realize there were people who actually, genuinely believed that the christian god really exists, which immediately struck me as a mixture of comical and sad. To me, it was like realizing that some people actually believed that santa claus was real and just didn't get that their parents put the presents under the tree.
Eventually, I started reading the bible. By then I was old enough and mature enough to realize that this belief system was actually some pretty dangerous shit. I never understood how people could delude themselves this way. The more I learned, the more I opposed religion. Now I'm here on DA and rage against religious people. Fun stuff.