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Did you grow up with religion?

I didn't grow up with religion, to me, it's kind of a foreign concept. It's not something that I think about another person being, so sometimes I am surprised to find out someone is religious. I'm curious how other non believers experience their non belief.

Remi 7 Mar 5
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I did not, and I'm glad for it.

d_day Level 7 Mar 5, 2018
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Yes, until I was 10 then we stopped going to church. always new something wasn't right

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Yes, studied the Bible for a few decades actually.
The insanity I was learning as well as the sequencing of the human genome (making evolution a sure thing) helped me determine that there was no sentient god of any kind.

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Somewhat. Not really, though.

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Raised Lutheran, did Sunday School and Confirmation and all that. When I was a kid I went along with it gamely enough, but sometime in high school I stopped going. My parents thought it was just because I didn't want to get up early on a Sunday morning and I let them think that rather than argue with them about my lack of faith.

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No... I outgrew it.

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No. I'm one of the lucky ones. We had to learn about it at school though.

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I grew up in the UK - a very secular and non religious sort of society - being religious was viewed as being rather 'odd' or eccentric.

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Yes, I grew up pentecostal church of god.

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No,religion stunts growth. I grew up after religion.

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I'm with you ... so nope, I was fortunate enough to have been born of parents both possessing genes advanced enough to allow their progeny to live free of superstition. Occasionally lonesome, often on the outside, but in the end, having experienced life to it’s fullest 🙂

Varn Level 8 Mar 5, 2018
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Eastern Orthdox Church--seldom went to church though.

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My parents were raised in different religions (one Catholic and the other Baptist), though growing up they chose not to force my sister and I to choose any religion over the other but they did make us go to see the point of view and let us choose what we wanted.
Though I chose neither I'm glad they gave me an option since I read about other people not being so fortunate.

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I did but never really attended church or was made read the bible

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I would have to say I grew up when I realized religion was a hoax.

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i was forced until i was old enough to say no more, it just did not make sense.

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I grew up in a reformed Jewish household. Meaning that the religious aspects were minimal. It was more of a cultural or ethnic thing. From the time I was two or three I questioned everything in life. (Whatever my parents told me not to do whether was cross the street or anything else I had to try even at that young age).

I was sent off to Sunday school and Hebrew school and questioned it all until I finally pissed off the rabbi by the age of 9.

In first grade I refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance because the words under God were in it. Obviously my non- belief was firmly in place by then.

The one good thing about Judaism, is that as a religion we are taught to discuss debates and question. That is why there are so many secular Jews because we are taught to think about it, not to just accept it.

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