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Atheists & Agnostics

OriginalGeek

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17. Yep.

Reply to FiveGoodMen (Reply #15)

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 01:53 AM

Dec 2012

The brainwashing, err, faith teaching, begins early. I remember the adults being proud as punch when a 7 or 8 year old "came to the lord"...Even then I wondered why they didn't see it as the brainwashing it was but it took me a while to figure out it had happened to me too.

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I'm new to this group and I have been browsing and reading for days [View all] iwillalwayswonderwhy Dec 2012 OP

I thought at times that if I was wrong, and there really was a Hell, I was doomed ... Auggie Dec 2012 #1

I grew up in a fairly liberal Lutheran church. trotsky Dec 2012 #2

I still to this day remember it as my childhood deep dark secret from everybody iwillalwayswonderwhy Dec 2012 #3

"I thought something was really really wrong with me..." FiveGoodMen Dec 2012 #4

Try growing up Irish Catholic, it's worse Warpy Dec 2012 #5

That's bad, and I'm not trying to out-bad you iwillalwayswonderwhy Dec 2012 #6

"Go sell all that you have and give the money to the poor. Then come follow me" -- Who said that? FiveGoodMen Dec 2012 #7

That's when I fled the south. Yee haw, indeed Warpy Dec 2012 #9

I had a kinda stupid luck as a kid YankeyMCC Dec 2012 #8

That was my experience, too. meeshrox Dec 2012 #10

I guess that I was lucky as a child. Curmudgeoness Dec 2012 #11

I was never baptized but I did go through most of the same things and I still get mad at some of it. ScottLand Dec 2012 #12

Welcome! OriginalGeek Dec 2012 #13

This is why I am never surprised when people vote against their own self-interests iwillalwayswonderwhy Dec 2012 #14

I think their gullibility is greatly developed and enhanced in church FiveGoodMen Dec 2012 #15

Yep. OriginalGeek Dec 2012 #17

I came upon my atheism much more recently Gore1FL Dec 2012 #16

I had a very similar background. onager Dec 2012 #18

What? No Sunday night service? iwillalwayswonderwhy Dec 2012 #19

Most of those were available... onager Dec 2012 #20

Yes, I was a G.A. (girl' s auxiliary) and I forgot Training Union iwillalwayswonderwhy Dec 2012 #21

Guilt and the fear of being ostracized and shunned.... AlbertCat Jan 2013 #22

Excellent discussion! truegrit44 Jan 2013 #23

I was raised Methodist... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2013 #24

lol, My methodist cousins always told the best Baptist jokes OriginalGeek Jan 2013 #27

I was raised Presbyterian in a liberal church marlakay Jan 2013 #25

You are not alone intaglio Jan 2013 #26