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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never really bought into it.  It always just sounded like bullshit to me. [/quote]

Same!  [/quote]

Fascinating! were either of you from religious families? e.g., went to services/Sunday school regularly? Did either of you tell your parents of your views as children?  If so, how did they handle it?[/quote]

NP, but this is me, too. I was raised Catholic, went to church every Sunday, plus Sunday school. Baptized and went through First Eucharist. I was skeptical from the start and made trouble in Sunday School by asking a lot of questions. When I was 9 or 10, they apparently asked my parents to stop sending me because I was "disruptive" (to be fair, I probably was being a brat about it, but that is partly because I was frustrated with the lack of explanation).

I chose to stop going to church a few years after that, at 13/14. I decided since I was in high school, they couldn't make me, and they saw that I was committed to it and didn't push too hard. But then my mom did make me start taking confirmation classes (our church did Confirmation in 11th grade). I went to maybe five classes, but then told her it wasn't for me and she didn't force the issue.

All of this happened around the time that the Catholic priest scandals were coming out, so I think even though my mom was unhappy with my choices, she was also unhappy with the church and had a hard time defending it to me. My dad ignored the scandals but I think was mostly just mad that I was being insubordinate.[/quote]

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