Religions > Atheism > As a child you were told that "God is watching you," and you believed it up to what age?
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28 Aug 2005 02:59:37 PM |
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As a child you were told that "God is watching you," and you believed it up to what age? |
This question is mainly for those raised in "religious" homes where
such things are told to children. The "God" in question being the
"moral" and "vengeful God."
Input from those with indirect experience in the area is also welcome.
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| User: "kathryn" |
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| Title: Re: As a child you were told that "God is watching you," and you believed it up to what age? |
28 Aug 2005 03:22:14 PM |
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"muldoon" <brian9511@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
news:1125241177.781898.77140@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
This question is mainly for those raised in "religious" homes where
such things are told to children. The "God" in question being the
"moral" and "vengeful God."
Input from those with indirect experience in the area is also welcome.
I wasn't raised in a religious home but in NI you tend to be taught
christianity in one form or another from the get go, people assume it to be
true because it's what they've been told from an early age. and I was made
to go to girls brigade and church till I was about 15.
So....8.....I realised one evening that it was all crap.
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| User: "Chris Johnson" |
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| Title: Re: As a child you were told that "God is watching you," and you believed it up to what age? |
28 Aug 2005 08:40:59 PM |
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I was sort of raised in a religious home. We went to a Catholic church,
but eventually stopped around 3rd grade because my sisters and I
couldn't sit still and my parents got embarassed. Then when I was 13ish
I fell in with an charismatic non-denominational church, and tried my
hardest to learn about, feel the presence of, and please god. Over the
next couple years, I realized more and more that nothing was different,
so I kind of drifted away from it, until I met an atheist who made the
simple statement "I'm a pretty happy person. I don't need a cosmic
father figure." That was a revelation to me. People could be happy and
have meaningful lives without god. So more or less ever since I've been
just doing what makes me happy and trusting that if there is a god that
wants my loyalty, it'll take the time to convince me of its presence,
and not just leave me to grasp at straws.
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| User: "FlameStrike" |
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| Title: Re: As a child you were told that "God is watching you," and you believed it up to what age? |
29 Aug 2005 03:28:50 AM |
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In article <1125241177.781898.77140@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
brian9511@dslextreme.com says...
This question is mainly for those raised in "religious" homes where
such things are told to children. The "God" in question being the
"moral" and "vengeful God."
Input from those with indirect experience in the area is also welcome.
Well, I was
raised to believe it, and inducted as a member of the church I was
raised in at the age of 12. About the time I entered High School, at 14, I
started questioning everything I was being taught in church. by the time I was
16 I was an atheist.
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FlameStrike
"My honor is my life!"
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| User: "Uncle Buck" |
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| Title: Re: As a child you were told that "God is watching you," and you believed it up to what age? |
28 Aug 2005 06:49:55 PM |
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On 28 Aug 2005 07:59:37 -0700, "muldoon" <brian9511@dslextreme.com>
wrote:
This question is mainly for those raised in "religious" homes where
such things are told to children. The "God" in question being the
"moral" and "vengeful God."
Input from those with indirect experience in the area is also welcome.
Very direct experience, here. I'd say that on some level, the notion
that some distant and judgemental "watcher" is with me even to this
very day. But as for outright _belief_ in a god figure or some such,
while I stopped being a Christian at around 16 or so, I didn't
completely forsake that particular notion until probably my
mid-twenties. By that time, it wasn't "God(TM)" that was watching me
so much as spirits or aliens or what have you. These days, in a way,
I still have that belief in the sense that I think some day, it will
be possible for us to look back into the past literally, and to
actually watch it (like in the Orson Scott Card book, "Pastwatch: The
Redemption of Christopher Columbus"). That's kind of a half-serious,
"maybe it will happen, maybe it won't" kind of belief. Sometimes I'll
actually speak directly to the future, "just in case" they can see me,
just to get things off my mind or what have you. But at least it's a
much less destructive belief than the god-belief from which it sprang.
:-)
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Uncle Buck
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| User: "Dave" |
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| Title: Re: As a child you were told that "God is watching you," and you believed it up to what age? |
28 Aug 2005 03:59:25 PM |
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It's those damn Vorlons.
Uncle Buck wrote:
[...] I stopped being a Christian at around 16 or so, I didn't
completely forsake that particular notion until probably my
mid-twenties. By that time, it wasn't "God(TM)" that was watching me
so much as spirits or aliens or what have you. These days, in a way,
I still have that belief in the sense that I think some day, it will
be possible for us to look back into the past [...]
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| User: "655321" |
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28 Aug 2005 06:50:32 PM |
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On 2005-08-28 08:59:25 -0700, "Dave" <galt_57@hotmail.com> said:
It's those damn Vorlons.
Did someone say Vogons?
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GlennGlenn (655321) -- aa#825 --
"The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound.
Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book,
and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching."
-- Assyrian Tablet, Ca. 2800 BC
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| User: "DanielSan" |
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28 Aug 2005 09:08:59 PM |
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655321 wrote:
On 2005-08-28 08:59:25 -0700, "Dave" <galt_57@hotmail.com> said:
It's those damn Vorlons.
Did someone say Vogons?
Voltron?
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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28 Aug 2005 10:16:11 PM |
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:50:32 GMT, 655321
<DipthotDipthot@Yahoo.Yahoo.Com.Com> wrote:
On 2005-08-28 08:59:25 -0700, "Dave" <galt_57@hotmail.com> said:
It's those damn Vorlons.
Did someone say Vogons?
Oh freddled gruntbuggly! Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits in a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiouly drangle me with crinkly bindle werdles,
For otherwise I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with
My blurglecruncheon see if I don't.
From the annotated BBC scripts.
Did you know that Slartibartfast was originally going to be called
Phartiphuckborlz?
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| User: "Dubh Ghall" |
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29 Aug 2005 05:10:43 PM |
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:49:55 -0700, Uncle Buck <UncleBuck@SpamMeNot.com> wrote:
On 28 Aug 2005 07:59:37 -0700, "muldoon" <brian9511@dslextreme.com>
wrote:
This question is mainly for those raised in "religious" homes where
such things are told to children. The "God" in question being the
"moral" and "vengeful God."
Input from those with indirect experience in the area is also welcome.
Very direct experience, here. I'd say that on some level, the notion
that some distant and judgemental "watcher" is with me even to this
very day.
Ignore it. It is only the EAC surveillance bods, testing their equipment.
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| User: "" |
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30 Aug 2005 06:35:36 PM |
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I was raised in a strict Catholic family and had 12 years of Catholic
school. I was about ten when I first started questioning it and 16 when
I suddenly realized that not only did I not believe in Catholicism but
I didn''t believe in any god at all. It really was a sudden realization
- sort of like Saul on the road to Damascus in reverse.
Lana (who does believe that lengthy exposure to Catholic school creates
many an atheist)
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| User: "Apostate" |
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28 Aug 2005 11:34:55 PM |
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:49:55 -0700, Uncle Buck <UncleBuck@SpamMeNot.com> wrote:
On 28 Aug 2005 07:59:37 -0700, "muldoon" <brian9511@dslextreme.com>
wrote:
This question is mainly for those raised in "religious" homes where
such things are told to children. The "God" in question being the
"moral" and "vengeful God."
Input from those with indirect experience in the area is also welcome.
Very direct experience, here. I'd say that on some level, the notion
that some distant and judgemental "watcher" is with me even to this
very day. But as for outright _belief_ in a god figure or some such,
while I stopped being a Christian at around 16 or so, I didn't
completely forsake that particular notion until probably my
mid-twenties. By that time, it wasn't "God(TM)" that was watching me
so much as spirits or aliens or what have you. These days, in a way,
I still have that belief in the sense that I think some day, it will
be possible for us to look back into the past literally, and to
actually watch it (like in the Orson Scott Card book, "Pastwatch: The
Redemption of Christopher Columbus"). That's kind of a half-serious,
"maybe it will happen, maybe it won't" kind of belief. Sometimes I'll
actually speak directly to the future, "just in case" they can see me,
just to get things off my mind or what have you. But at least it's a
much less destructive belief than the god-belief from which it sprang.
:-)
Dude!
You have the basis for a new NuAge religion there.
This could put you on Easy Street.
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/Apostate
alt.atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by Lani_girl, first post; Billions Served!
I doubt, therefore I might be.
e-mail to lower-case only
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| User: "Dubh Ghall" |
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| Title: Re: As a child you were told that "God is watching you," and you believed it up to what age? |
29 Aug 2005 05:06:00 PM |
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On 28 Aug 2005 07:59:37 -0700, "muldoon" <brian9511@dslextreme.com> wrote:
This question is mainly for those raised in "religious" homes where
such things are told to children. The "God" in question being the
"moral" and "vengeful God."
Input from those with indirect experience in the area is also welcome.
At seventeen, I finally had to accept that I was clinging to a myth, and that
there was no god, watching me.
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| User: "James" |
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28 Aug 2005 05:58:47 PM |
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muldoon wrote:
This question is mainly for those raised in "religious" homes where
such things are told to children. The "God" in question being the
"moral" and "vengeful God."
Input from those with indirect experience in the area is also welcome.
I became a non-denominational Christian in my early teens, much to the
chagrin of my Protestant mother. She'd drilled that stuff into me from
birth. I suppose I stopped believing in God's omniscience then,
although I don't remember exactly, but I wouldn't think that it
persisted much longer than my belief in Santa's omniscience.
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James B
aa #944
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
-David Hume
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