I started young in a varied religious background. I was baptized as a child in a Presbyterian church, went to an Episcopal day school, a Catholic elementary school, all while attending services at a Baptist church. All dogma, all the time. It's amazing that I evolved into an atheist! Can anyone relate?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I, too, was baptized Presbyterian as a child, attended one Lutheran Boarding School with daily chapel and another that was "seriously Christian but non-denominational." There we studied World Religions and observed services with Quaker, Catholics, Episcopalians, Buddists and others. I married a Serbian Orthodox woman and I joined the Orthodox Church in America when our first child was born.
I am agnostic, but I can relate.
SoloSentient
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Nov 30, 2017
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Are you still in that marriage? How did you reconcile your skepticism with joining a church? Are you raising your child to be a freethinker or with theistic values?
We divorced after 10 years and just to be with my kids I continued going to church with them. I enjoyed the meditative quality of liturgical worship. Having been exposed to so many forms of worship, meditation, self hypnosis and Native American that my long held doubts with all strictly managed form of worship I admitted I was sure what I could no longer claim as "my religion."
My three children are very free thinkers and they were always exposed to philosophy, history and science. Two are still involved in church to varying degrees and are quite pragmatic and open minded.
I wonder if the differences in dogma and theology presented contrasts which made you ask questions?
wordywalt
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Nov 30, 2017
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I'm not sure that's the case here. I was encouraged to seek out my spiritual journey but it never was a requirement. I always thought it was funny that my parents, who belonged to a Presbyterian church but never attended services, thought I should be encouraged to attend services myself. Seemed a bit hypocritical. My mom always said she was a good person and that counted more than going to church. I guess some of that rubbed off on me.
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