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Author Topic:   Share your history of belief/disbelief
caffeine
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Message 3 of 16 (498628)
02-12-2009 9:04 AM


Not a particularly coherent story
You know, it's always bothered me slightly that so many other people seem to have clear and coherent stories progressing from faith to disbelief, or vice-versa, whether through gradual realisation or sudden conversion. My beliefs have changed too, but I don't have any memory of the process.
I was raised Catholic, but not in a particularly strict family - my mum's side were Catholic, while my dad's are of the branch of vague and adoctrinal Anglicanism which leaves you baffled as to whether they actually believe in God and, if not, why they consider themselves Christians. Given that mum cared about her religion more; and that my maternal grandparents would probably have believed I'd burn if hell if not baptised Catholic, Catholicism it was (a role may also have been played by the fact that the best state school in the area was Catholic - I have a little cousin who's Catholic but with Anglican parents, for the same reason).
I'm fairly certain I did once believe in God. I probably still did at the age of 11; as I remember declaring the strength of my faith in God at a Confirmation meeting (I was even an altar boy!). I also know that I was going through a militantly atheist phase by the age of 14, and have gone through various stages of calling myself an atheist and agnostic since - though this is mostly just philosophical quibbling over an essentially unchanged position. I don't remember how or when my beliefs changed so dramatically, though.

  
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