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Were you religiously affiliated before becoming atheist? (feddit.de)
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Hi, to counteract all the memes here, I want to start a discussion. Maybe answer the question I asked and tell why you "lost faith".

Lets start with myself. I went to a catholic church as a child, my mothers parents are devout christians, my father is atheist as long as I know. After the elder in the community bullied a very nice priest away when i was around 10, I stopped going to church. I never joined the church as full member as you have to do a confirmation as a late teen and left the church when I was around 20. And now even my mother left the church, so she does not have to pay taxes to them. My Grandparents don't know this, I think my Grandpa would die of an hearth attack, if he ever found out.

So I would say I never had "faith", it was just routine that you went to church.

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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Not since I was old enough to make my own choices. I can vividly remember hiding behind my house when I was a kid, I don't know how old I was, trying to avoid going to church. As far as I can remember, I never believed. In fact, for the longest time, I thought people were just "playing along" so to speak, because that's what I would do whenever I was dragged to church. I was older than I would like to admit when I realized that people really do literally believe in all the dumb shit in the bible.

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