I used to be a Catholic because my parents made me go to church every Sunday and say prayers with them. I also was in youth groups from kindergarten to twelfth grade. A few years ago I began to pick at the obvious like "virgin birth" and realized that really, people could be making up whatever stuff they wanted. I also realized that I didn't agree with a lot of the tenets of the faith, but most of all, I realized that I didn't care and I was just putting up with it because I was forced to. I also began to realize that praying does nothing, and that the only way to make things happen is doing something yourself. Yet I see people talking about how "God" got them through the bad times while not crediting their own endurance. That's just crazy. Freeing myself from the idea of 'hell' was rather helpful in fighting my fear of death.
Atheists, were you once religious, or were you never religious?
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I used to be a Catholic because my parents made me go to church every Sunday and say prayers with them. I also was in youth groups from kindergarten to twelfth grade. A few years ago I began to pick at the obvious like "virgin birth" and realized that really, people could be making up whatever stuff they wanted. I also realized that I didn't agree with a lot of the tenets of the faith, but most of all, I realized that I didn't care and I was just putting up with it because I was forced to. I also began to realize that praying does nothing, and that the only way to make things happen is doing something yourself. Yet I see people talking about how "God" got them through the bad times while not crediting their own endurance. That's just crazy. Freeing myself from the idea of 'hell' was rather helpful in fighting my fear of death.