Archive for March, 2008
It doesn’t make any sense…
(Via Jennifer Curtis) I never really bought the whole “god” thing. From an early age my family went to mass on special occasions, or to participate in family functions. My mother and father only took us to church out of some weird traditional obligation, and the first memories of youth services were of choreographed song [...]
Never Really Bought It
(Via jono) From the early years, I vaguely remember going to church and getting in trouble from the Sunday School teacher for not bringing my quarter to put in the little Church-Piggy Bank. My parents took us out of that church, but my sister and I were going to a Lutheran school where we had [...]
always was
(Via liz) i have always been a non believer. my father is a physicist so you can do the math there. i guess as a kid i went thru the motions of praying before a meal and praying before bed because i thought i was supposed to. i didn’t know that it was something that [...]
Prayer didn’t work
(Via Csaba) My mother was a caring parent. Hard-working and always ready to kiss the forehead of any of her two sons if he made a mistake and say “It’s okay, Mom loves you no matter what”. She had breast cancer once and somehow made it through, when I was a small kid, with support [...]
Don’t ever look back.
(Via russellnation) It was a cold dreary 5th grade catholic school Wednesday morning required mass. My eyes filled with sleep. The moment reached when we were all supposed to kneel and pray. As I leaned forward to kneel, my brain screamed in astonishing insight that it was all a farce and no sense was to [...]
What am I doing?
(Via damiank) I’m a college dropout, but in my first year, i took anthropology 101. The professor said something similar to this: “If you are determined to believe in Adam and Eve, there’s the door” (pointing to the door). From that moment, I’ve been fascinated with human evolution. I’m a Cajun catholic, so I guess [...]
The Black Milk Bottle Story
(Via David Michael) My earliest religious memory is a picture in the Catholic Baltimore Catechism showing three bottles of milk to explain sin and the state of grace. There was a black bottle of milk to show the result of mortal sins, a grey bottle for venial sins and a bright white bottle for being [...]
My long path to reason
(Via John Gordon) My parents wanted to give me a religious upbringing so from an early age I was exposed to regular church and Sunday school. I was quite young and had been taught to do the “right thing” without questioning. From grade 5 I was enrolled in a Christian all-boys college (Church of England [...]
Hey Brothers and Sisters, I’m Ready to Testify!
(Via Brother Richard) I pretty much grew up a “heathen.” My Mother was raised Catholic so occasionally we would attend Midnight Mass at Christmastime, and my Father was raised Methodist, so we went to a few Easter Sunrise Services. Other than that, I only walked into churches for weddings, funerals, and every once in a [...]
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