Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: Just curious [View all]rurallib
(63,260 posts)1st big love was some other christian sect. After HS and in college pretty much quit going to church except for marryings and buryings.
My biggest problems with religion (catholic especially) was that those pushing the religion were so un-christian like. Just wanted to get away from the lies and the hypocrisy. An attempted rape and a summer of stalking by a priest when I was 12 really told what religion really was.
That was my teens - I didn't really swing all the way to agnostic-atheist until about 15 years ago. The big mover then was the politization of religion by the Republicans. My feeling until then was i just didn't want to deal with religion.
But if religion was going to become a political weapon, especially one that would be used to hurt people, then it was time to totally turn away from religion and do what I could to fight its influence.
And this was a time when the internet was just getting big so I could find information that I had been curious about all my life - such as was there really only one son of god story? If not how similar were they? On and on.