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[quote=Anonymous]Raised Catholic in a family that was a weird mix of adherent (Mass/Sunday School EVERY Sunday, Catholic school til college, parents participating in several parish ministries) but also very socially liberal/progressive. Probably why I hung on for so long, because my immediate Catholic community seemed to really put their money where their mouth was in terms of social justice, which remains very important to me. My parents are still active Church members.

The first cracks in the facade for me came when our pastor went down early in the child abuse scandal. I realized if HE wasn't scared enough to commit such a mortal sin, maybe he didn't really believe. I was in high school at the time.

I held out into college, but as college kids do, got lazy about attending Mass. Then started dating a non-religious guy. Once I got some distance from the Church, it gave me perspective. I slowly realized it was just convenient fiction.

It took years to accept that I was atheist, internally. I am comfortable with it now. But it's very much don't ask, don't tell with my family. I'm sure my parents, etc. realize I'm at a minimum agnostic now, but we don't talk about it at all.

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