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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you knew of something that was so wonderful - so beautiful, so incredibly amazing, so wonderous -- wouldn't you want to tell everyone about it, so that they could know about what this most amazing and inspiring thing was??[/quote]

Sure, tell them about it and then they can decide for themselves if they feel the same way and want to pursue it.

But that's often not the way religion works -- people are indoctrinated as children, or coerced or threatened as adults or made to feel guilty and dirty and sometimes are punished if they don't believe in exactly the "right" way.[/quote]

I'm sorry PP, is that what happened to you? Thats not how faith grew in me. I saw my mother, who was very devout, the immense patience she had, the inner calm, the love she felt for people, and her commitment to help anyone who needed help, and I wanted to be like that. If it was faith that could make someone like that, then I wanted faith.
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Did you mother teach you your faith when you were very young and not teach you about other faiths in an objective way? If so, no matter now pleasant it was, it was still indoctrination -- which is commonplace and accepted.  It's now most children learn about religion - the religion their parents want to raise them in.

If it's a "good" religion and the child finds comfort in it, then it can work out OK.  If its a religion that emphasizes sin and punishment, then it can cause harm.  Irrespective of the nature of a particular religion, some children just don't take to it and when they are adults and can make up their own minds about things, they reject religion. Although things are changing, it's still the case that people who don't have a religion or who have rejected their childhood religion are looked down on as less moral than people who have a religion -- any religion.  An easy way to avoid being looked down on is simply to not mention one's lack of religion, because no one can tell from the outside the difference between a religious person and someone with no religion.

Luckily, more people without religion -- either never believed it or stopped believing as adults - are now more vocal about their non-belief, so others can see that they are just as likely to be good, moral people as those with religion.[/quote]

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