It's so hard to drop a religion you were raised with. For years after I would still catch myself feeling guilty about something I shouldn't feel guilty about. Then get frustrated that I had that response.
Once you break the rules and actually question the belief, it gets hard to not see the contradictions.
It's so hard to drop a religion you were raised with. For years after I would still catch myself feeling guilty about something I shouldn't feel guilty about. Then get frustrated that I had that response.
Once you break the rules and actually question the belief, it gets hard to not see the contradictions.
Very true. Even now I almost WISH I could believe, just so I could have a better relationship with my family and my parents would be proud of me. But at this point I'm all out of faith and would need some hard evidence, which I'm convinced doesn't exist. So it is what it is I guess.
Very true. Even now I almost WISH I could believe, just so I could have a better relationship with my family and my parents would be proud of me. But at this point I'm all out of faith and would need some hard evidence, which I'm convinced doesn't exist. So it is what it is I guess.
I would say I stopped being very active around age 22-23. That was when I learned about a lot of beliefs that had changed over the years and become contradictions of the previously held doctrine, so that really hit me pretty hard and made me step back and look at the religion more objectively. Kind of sporadically went to some meetings until I was around 30. I'm now mid-30s and no longer believe in anything supernatural.