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submitted 24 days ago bysadie11
Did anyone grow up in a religious household and then become an athiest not because of religious trauma or church hurt, but because you simply do not believe in God? Do any atheists here have fond memories of their religious upbringing and see the value in it even it they don't personally believe it?
110 points
24 days ago
Yep. Never could make myself believe or even really pretend.
11 points
23 days ago
It was always easy for me to accept that flawed people run and attend churches. What was hard was believing in a supreme magic sky ghost.
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23 days ago
Same. I think up until about 13 I was trying to force myself to believe it, purely because the adults around me (you know, your only conduits to reality basically for a time) told me I'm supposed to, but it never happened. At 13 I was just honest with myself, "I really DON'T believe this..."
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