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Interesting read and I suppose it makes sense.
Isn't true for me but I would be curious how many of you felt it might be a part of the disconnection from religion for you?

My parents were consistent and were pretty true to their respective religions...as much as any kid can really know anyway.
I am an atheist on my own terms, definitely not because I saw my parents as hypocrites, but because I would have felt like a hypocrite. So many things I thought were simply wrong or just not logical

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My parents weren’t practicing religious. My dad is a Jew, my mom is a metaphysicist. My mom would pontificate frequently about what I should or shouldn’t do in order to be happy and get what I wanted out of life. She would rarely practice what she preached and when she did it was short lived. It felt like being raised by a used car salesman constantly waiting for the next big thing. When she was around. Anyway, my parents’ religion, or lack thereof, made me want to believe there was something out there because that would be “normal” and nothing about my family is normal, but I haven’t believed in a long time.

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I was the same as you; my parents were good role models and consistent and non-hypocritical, as well as unconditionally loving. My atheism was strictly a result of lived experience not lining up with the explanations and predictions of the faith (e.g., god blesses the righteous and confounds the wicked, sticks closer than a brother, protects you like a mother bird protects her chicks, answers prayer, etc).

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Raised catholic. Forced to attend mass every Sunday, and attend catechism on Wednesdays after school. My mother and her husband used to attend mass with my sister and I, on Christmas and Easter. As soon as she and I had gone through Confirmation, they soon dropped the pretense and quit going altogether, but still forced us to go.

I already knew it was all bullshit, and their hypocrisy just solidified that for me.
As soon as I figured out that I could get away with telling them we'd gone, by snagging a weekly program to present as proof, we quit going. There was a Dunkin' Donuts across the street from the church, so we'd go have breakfast with the collection money.
They were never the wiser. Knowing I'd gotten away with that still makes me happy.

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My folks sent us to Sunday school but they did not attend. They were both raised Southern Baptist, but for some reason sent us to the Methodist church. I do remember wondering why I had to go and they did not.

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Interesting and true. I was raised Greek Orthodox but my parents encouraged free thinking. Plus my dad always said church was for being social. He hasn’t ever said he was but we’re sure he’s also atheist.

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