what age did you stop beleaving in the religion you where raised with?

[dzagama]

dupe.

[dzagama]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

I can pinpoint the exact moment I lost my religion. Our very own Scotticus hit me up with a fact: Life is a state of disequilibrium. Everything clicked and I lost my soul. Thanks, Dr. Scotty!

Richard Feynman on Boltzmann Brains | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

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[wannabejew]

Originally Posted by hoshnobobo2.0

i was watching Bill Maher and he mentioned he stopped beleaving in the religion he was raised with at sixth grade, this struk me as thats when i stopped beleaving as well. so it got me thinking, could the age you stop beleaving be corilated with the age you start having rational discriminating thought?

I think I started to not believe half-way through college. It was a slow process of going from Christian (Methodist) to some from of believing in God but not attending organized church services, then to Deism, then to agnosticism and finally to atheism. Which goes over REALLY well here in the South.

[The Quintessential Loser]

In truth, I don't think I ever believed. But I didn't accept that until I was 18 and actually had the choice of going to church or not. I hadn't even heard of Atheism at the time and thought I was alone in my thinking.

My mother never did accept that I'm an atheist. She was always shocked whenever me or my brother bring it up.

[DJ Trashy]

I was 'born again' at age 7, never stopped believing until around 40 or so.

This just means I have a lot of drinking and partying to make up for. Keep that in mind when you see pics of me putting KATG temp tattoos on someone's cleavage. It's not my fault, really.

[Incognito]

My upbringing was kind of odd. It was one of those "we go to church on Sundays, but we don't pray/have bibles laying out/etc." It was if the whole family was posing. I got clued in to my own view very young (e.g. "hmm, something's fishy here") and informed myself as the years went on.

Unfortunately, my sister is a god-fearing woman who is instilling "don't do that, God wouldn't like it" into her two daughters, my nieces. I'm the cynical uncle of the family, so when they get a bit older, I'll start breaking them down.

[standardman]

I was raised Roman Catholic and went to both a Roman Catholic junior and high school.

I was around the age of 12 that I realised it made no damn sense and got in trouble constantly for asking 'why?' during religious education lessions (not to be confused with religious studies) and getting annoyed when I didn't get a good answer.

The punchline being that - after all this trouble - I talked to my parents and they told me they didn't believe either and the schools were just better. It came from a good place and, hey, catholic school girls!