We've all be through that time where you question the religion you've been raised to believe in, amirite?

inb4 Scrantoncity

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Scrantoncity has been gone for at least 3 months.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I have yet to question atheism

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Were you raised atheist?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah. The Russian government forbade religion.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How old are you, if you don't mind me asking?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

17 born 1993 after the ussr collapsed. yet my parents raised me as they were raised. Godless

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh, I see. That makes sense.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Moved to america in 97. By then it was too late

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Going through that right now, actually... :/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

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by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, never.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was raised a catholic by VERY religious parents, but I never fully believed in god, and by the time I was 12 I had left the belief altogether. My parents still dont know, and I'd never tell them. They'd shun me for life :/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That seems to happen more in catholic churches than protestant :/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was also raised catholic but I don't think I've ever believed in God. When I was younger I thought no one really believed in the Bible and God and all the other stuff, but as I grew I realized people actually believed their religion and that was it for me. My parents accept me though, although they "are catholics" they don't really care about religion, my grandparents though, that's another story.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's how I am, but I was raised by Protestants (Methodists, to be more specific). I never really believed, either. It's not that I'm necessarily an atheist, I just sort of have my own spiritual ideology now, if that makes sense. I would never tell my parents, either. They wouldn't take it well at all and they would probably do something drastic to try and convert me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I guess technically I was raised Catholic, but I never believed in it...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I loved that I was raised without religion. It's given me the chance to actually explore religions instead of just automatically believing something.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Me too.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was raised religious, I still got a chance to explore other religions. I didn't go to a mosque ro anything, but that's mainly because a)We don't have any b)If we did, I didn't want to anyway.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I have questioned atheism before, and I sit down and really think about it, and realize "yeah, there's some holes in it, but not nearly as many as in religion, and mine are on their way to being filled in". That sounds kinda douchey and disrespectful to religious people, but that's not how I intended it, sorry

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I went a bit beyond questioning and just threw it all out the window. No more God for me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I went through that about a year and a half ago. Now I'm an atheist.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Currently I'm going through that right, believing less and less as time goes on. I consider myself agnostic now.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think I ever have, I was raised Methodist and still am. My philosophy is that since there isn't any proof for Christianity you just have to decide whether to believe or not and I do.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Everyone questions the values that they were raised with at some point - whether it be their parent's religion (or lack of), their parent's rules, morals, perspective of life, etc. Particularly in the teen years, when you're trying to find your own identity, and think and consider multiple life paths.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not once did I ever question what my parents taught me. Though I did wonder why they made me drip my blood onto a pentagram, and why there were so many goat hearts in the basement.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm going through that right now. I've been raised Muslim, but for a while now I've been doubting everything it teaches. I've never doubted the existence of God, but just the religion as a whole. I didn't know that so many people go through this.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm going through that right now. I've been raised Muslim, but for a while now I've been doubting everything it teaches. I've never doubted the existence of God, but just the religion as a whole. I didn't know that so many people go through this.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In my 20's now, as a teen I doubted my religion (was raised Lutheran), and became agnostic for my early high school years. However, after some life changing experiences, I found a different side of Christianity, and started to believe again, yet in a more raw sense of the faith. Now I'm a Christian, I am not part of any domination or anything (though I'm still technically part of the WELS Synod). I've talked to many Creationist scientists, and am currently taking lessons in apologetics.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

its funny i realized i started questioning everything right before i got confirmed. i used to believe in god and hear stories of how hes helped people i know and love. now when i hear those stories im like yea that not God its just a crazy coinsidence. im not atheist im just not sitting there listening anymore. im trying to figure out my own beliefs

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was raised a Catholic and found myself questioning Christianity and religion in general when I did philosophy at school, so I told my parents I didn't want to go to church any more and they were mostly fine with it. I feel much more at peace now I can make my own decisions and don't feel guilty about not having prayed or gone to confession, I just think, if there is a god (which I'm not sure there is), why would he care about all that stuff, surely he'd just want us to be good people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was raised Baptist, and am actually heavily exploring the Catholic faith. But what is so scary about exploring religions is that there are so many types of members in each religion: Each has the zelous types, and the lethargic ones. It seems like Catholicism has a vast number of lazy ones, and a vast number of too die hard of members...it is not only picking religions that is tough, it is picking how you want to tread a path within that realm that is so difficult.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This has happened to me more than once. Now I go by the principal that I love God, but don't like religion.

by Anonymous 12 years ago