Atheists & Agnostics

truegrit44

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23. Excellent discussion!

Reply to iwillalwayswonderwhy (Original post)

Wed Jan 2, 2013, 02:50 PM

Jan 2013

I was raised Catholic and went thru all the steps. My mother dragging me along never missed a Sunday or Holy Day. It was Saturday Catechism for 12 years the whole works. I don't ever remember really believing anything, just went along because I was forced.

I was even dumb enough (I guess just programed) to marry my lst husband in the church and actually have all my children baptized. Was kinda off and on with going to church and taking my kids and didn't make any kind of deal about it with them. I always knew tho it was bullshit, but just thought it was the right thing to do.

By the time my youngest received lst communion I was really tired of the whole thing and just kinda quit going. After that time I actually gave it some real thought and decided I was an atheist.

Living in the bible belt, I often think of all the children who are being "mind fucked" and to me it is borderline child abuse. Very sad

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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