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I grew up as a Pastors Son (P.K. aka Preachers Kid) of a Full Gospel Holy Ghost speaking in tongues, foaming at the mouth, falling out type of church. I always had questions about an so-called OMNIPOTENCE, but was too afraid to ask them for fear of being "Rebuked", or getting Exercised from the Devil in me (As they would call it), or afterwards when all those things failed the finality would be to have the Devil beat out my ass in the Name of "GOD". Never could I figure out if God is the Alpha, and the Omega...why would he have created this shit??? Theres so many contradictories to a God that its too confusing to not only follow, and worship, but to believe. SMH.

Rico620 1 Feb 11
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Did you always have doubts as a matter of who you are and how you think, or was there something specifically that occurred to you at a certain age (evidence, fallacy, argument, etc)?

I'm always fascinated to talk to those who are now atheists/agnostics who ostensibly were as indoctrinated as one could possibly be.

I was never really indoctrinated and my parents never took me to church. I did go to church and Sunday school with a neighbor for a while, but it made no sense to me. I often wonder if it would have made more sense if I had been indoctrinated from birth. I somehow doubt it, as I think I am one of those people who was born with a very weak religious impulse and a strong skeptical/critical bent.

" I often wonder if it would have made more sense if I had been indoctrinated from birth"

i think it's makes a huge difference. otherwise how could you possibly explain how otherwise intelligent people are believers.
let me amend that ..claim to be believers..

@callmedubious I read somewhere that beliefs we hold for the longest period of time WITH NO EVIDENCE FOR THEM AT ALL are the ones we believe most strongly, even above beliefs we've held for just as long with better and better (and more and more) evidence for them that piles up over time. (This is regardless of intelligence.) I think this says quite a lot about humanity.

@greyeyed123 , makes sense b/c those are the beliefs that people have so much invested in.

@callmedubious Indeed, and not just emotionally and psychologically, but in many cases people have built their entire identities around those beliefs. Asking someone to simply drop them as irrational may be similar to asking them to cut off a leg or an arm.

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