I was brought up in a church where the first sin was knowledge.

It's all about teaching obedience.

Questions I can't answer > answers I can't question.

Then you are a slave to that religion

And, when religion teaches people not to question, it is also making them vulnerable to political demagogues and ideologues -- who also do not want people to question, but to outright "buy the company line." What do you think that we are seeing a linkage between evangelical Christianity, today's Republican politicians, and the ethnocentric and racist right?

I was united Methodist, and they said it was good to ask questions to build your faith, then gave just so answers and other incomprehensible to human understanding mumbo jumbo

I like this one.

I knew Buddhism was for me when I read the Buddha was purported to have said (paraphrased):

"Don't believe anything just because
-holy books say so
-tradition of many generations says so
-you teacher says so
-'common sense' says so
-it agrees with your opinion
-etc. (there's 10 things)
...but ONLY AFTER you have examined it for yourself and tested it and found it conducive to the good of one and all."

I was a teenager when I first encountered this quote and it blew my mind wide open. Once I knew there was an ancient system of questioning everything, I knew I could never go back.

Question, Question. But they don't have good answers. Just blindly accept it on faith. Faith in an imaginary god.

That’s how they stay in business

Nods head in agreement while opening a cold beer

I have never had the want or need to belong to any religion. As for teaching me not to question, I would ask, what part of the word 'freethinker' do you not understand?

Yes it most certainly is. I just did some research and found out Jews don't expect to go to heaven. I never knew this to now. Anyone else?

Very true Silver.... I wish I could of changed a long time ago.

No shit Sherlock...

Very true.