Fao Mikey4444 .... And Anyone Else Who Wants To Contribute

[naomi24]

Mikey, you said on another thread that you're an ex-Christian. I didn't want to hi-jack someone else's thread, so I'm asking separately - what prompted you to abandon the religion?

Same question to anyone else who has done similarly.

[pixie373]

Birdie, i think it might have been the Ark for me too. I remember the pictures in the book.
peter, i wouldn't call it insight. Children question everything. "Why?" is a favourite. Unfortunately, they often seem to lose that growing up. I just couldn't get it to make sense in my mind.

just out of interest, i did a "what religion am i?" online quiz last night (as you do). Although apparently 64% of my answers were Buddhist, 100% were Secular Humanist. I knew vaguely what that was, but reading through the wiki page, i was thinking- yes, exactly! It sounds so like me. A belief-system rather than a religion.

[naomi24]

Mikey, thanks for responding.

//I lost my faith, but I prefer to call it "coming to my senses" //

I usually refer to it as 'recovering my brain'. ;o)

Thanks to everyone else who has answered. I find it interesting that one or two had their suspicions from a very early age - something I never did. Like a few others I was into my later teenage years before I suspected that all was not as I had been taught, and subsequent research confirmed it. I really can't remember it ever occurring to me before then. In retrospect it seems daft not to have thought about it sooner - but I didn't. Such is the power of indoctrination.