[ SECRET POST #2286 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2286 ⌋

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Re: Losing your religion

[cassandraoftroy]

I was raised Catholic, in a family that just sort of took it for granted that God was real without much analysis or inquiry into the subject. I went to Catechism classes for nine years, did First Communion and Confirmation, but never really learned much about the history of the Catholic Church or much at all about what other people believed; I had only the vague sense that there were such religions as "Protestantism" and "Judaism," but little idea of what they meant. I knew about mythology, though, and was really interested in it. Eventually I realized that all these "myths" used to be actual religions, like mine, that real people really believed in. So what made those beliefs "myths" and mine "true," I wondered. And I realized that I couldn't see a difference. It just made more sense to me that the Christian God was another myth invented by people to explain their world, than that he was really out there watching everyone and caring about whether some kid lied to their parents about something trivial.

Eventually I realized that I'd spent most of my childhood living in a state of perpetual suspended-disbelief with regard to God, and that the whole thing had never seemed "real" to me to begin with, but I tried to force myself to believe anyway since everyone around me took it for granted that God was real. When I found out that atheism was a thing and that there were people out there who just didn't believe, it was such a relief, because I felt like it gave me permission to not-believe too -- that not-believing was an option.