How has faith or lack thereof in childhood shaped your faith or lack thereof as an adult?

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5. I went to Catholic grade school, high school and college. For the most part I never took to

Catholic teachings. Too many things did not make sense to me. They still don't. I see religion as superstition. As in the song by Stevie Wonder:

"When you believe in things
That you don't understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition aint the way

To me taking things on faith means you hope that they are as you believe, as there is no way to prove them. I don't take things on faith.

Some of my friends believe god controls everything going on. As if we are pawns in a game.

The question of, "why does god let bad things happen," is not part of my way of looking at events.

I think that every event has a cause. Everything that happens is caused by a previous event. It is like looking at the image you see from a mirror held up to a mirror. You see cause and event happening going back in time until you can't make it out anymore.

What is weird is my brother who grew up in the same environment as me is a Catholic Priest. (He was previously married and has kids and grand kids, he never molested any boys for the record)