How many here never had religion or never was a believer? There are always posts about peoples struggle to come to terms with life as a recovering believer but I would like to hear from the "never believed".
My family never went to church unless it was a wedding. My dad was agnostic most of his life and atheist the last 20 yrs or so. He didn't discuss it. My mom was baptized at 8 and thought she was good with god for life ever after that. lol
My aunt took me to a UU church a few weeks but I was 6 or 7 and she was asked to not bring me back until I could stop being disrupting by asking questions. I wasn't buying Jonah and the Whale, I fished and I knew that crap was crap. We never went back.
Other than a few bible stories I knew from some Golden Books I had as a kid and the xmas stories I heard at school, until I was in high school that was pretty much my only exposure. I went to a few of my friends churches in high school if I spent the night on Sat night but it was all so phony and BS. I took a "bible as literature" class junior year but transferred out after the first week because the students wouldn't discuss it as literature but as history. I was not down with that. They dropped the class after that semester.
I learned more about the bible in atheist club meetings and conversations with atheists than anywhere. I have never read the bible even though I have our family bible with our birth records in it for 7 generations.
That is the total of my exposure. I'm sure I could never really comprehend the struggles believers have had but I still empathize with them and the grief is has cause many.
What's you "never a believer" story?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The people who were never really believers often tell stories about realizing what a bunch of bunk it was when they were very young. In our society, there's always something to tell about how you've dealt with religion.
UpsideDownAgain
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Sep 8, 2019
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Your experience sounds very similar to mine. We never went to church except for weddings. My aunt took me to church for a few months when I was in early elementary school but I just didn't connect it with anything more than stories. It wasn't real. I remember at one point them saying something like"someone is always watching you." It may have been watching over you, I don't know, but my little science kid brain was like, oh, right, because there are so many people in the world you can't possibly get away from everyone. I also remember one night I stole a cookie from the kitchen, then dutifully prayed to Jesus to ask for forgiveness and thinking "this is dumb." I think my mom got tired of arguing with me because I didn't want to get up early and wear a dress on Sundays. After that I never went except the time I got tricked into it. My friend asked if I wanted to eat pizza and watch a movie and I was like sure! She goes cool, it's at my church. And inwardly I was like damnit!
Remi
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Sep 8, 2019
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The natives look the way to me is like I'm from another planet because of i didn't obey or follow the rules (religious)
So in a way the shape of atheistic is a hard job to the people from the country like india ,
Every day to us is like a protest but we're love to do that 
They are religious people and serious people so I have to tickle on them
, its a critical job you know
VISHNU_CHANDRA
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Oct 16, 2019
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