I wish I was raised among the lukewarm religious masses where that was a possible train of thought but no dice around here. These people believe and believe HARD. And if you’re raised by someone with old time religious fire, and don’t believe that they believe, they will most likely beat you until you can at least fake some convincing fraction of their belief. Of course which religion is right to these people is habit by definition because if they hadn’t been raised in it they wouldn’t believe it so devoutly themselves but they really are fully convinced and perish the thought of any doubts mostly.

I did have my own doubts but mostly based on the logical inconsistencies of the system described in the Bible. Still have no doubt that my family and church folks I was raised around truly and absolutely believe though. I convinced myself to believe via apologism for a while, thinking Jesus had a good message and a lot of these people just read it wrong. Still think that to some degree, but I know the good parts are almost entirely stolen from other religions now.

I was a thoroughly indoctrinated Catholic. I believed in God, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and the Pope.

I mostly just wondered why they believed and I understood that one was supposed to believe, but I don't think I ever really did.

I never questioned what the masses believed. I questioned why they believed, and came to different conclusions for it, but none of them were habit.

Totally. Then felt guilty about it. Then stood up for a different belief and regreted it.

Mom took me to church Catholic just followed her

nope, it never occurred to me, because we were secular jews and didn't go to temple, or talk about religion. we talked about culture. we celebrated holidays. we talked about history. i never even knew whether my parents believed in god until, as an adult, i asked them, and neither of them was sure what s/he believed even then. so there was no habit, and no hypocrisy. we had our problems as a family but that wasn't one of them.

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