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mte

lord forbid the girl grows and forms her own opinion

lil kai kaiz was the last person i ever expected to see in a reaction gif.

bhahah! kai!

This is truly beautiful. Love you FAS Queen Kai~

shes doing blogtv on saturday yaay!

lmao I think she lives near me.

CHRISTIANNNUH!!!*

ftfy

haha DAMNNN I was just about to post this.

GAR-GAYULS!
SLY-KICKS!

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Ikr. I have an astrophysics lecturer who is super christian and he says this stuff all the time. I think to him the amazing stuff he learns about the universe in his work reinforces his belief in a higher being. Absolutely nothing wrong with that imo

The "so forget Jesus" part is probably what's really pissing people off.

mte. i no longer consider myself to be religious, but when i was a christian, i still loved that quote.

Yeah but the Rick Santorums of the world don't see it that way. They don't believe in science.

You know, unless it will save your wife's life. Via abortion. Because when it's YOU it's okay.

me either. i really wish people knew that some religious beliefs and science and be side by side in some instances.

it's SO important that she questions shit. So many parents preach religion to their kids, and then their kids grow up and never question it. Which results in them never really using logic or understanding why things are. Which results in stupidity.

Which usually results in Texas residents.

Agreed, there's a great book by geneticist Francis S. Collins called The Language of God on that same idea.

ia about marrying science and faith. i'm always perplexed when people can't grasp that.

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Krauss isn't even an atheist, he's agnostic. He's just offering a different view, not really contributing to any dissing of jesus.

I was a jehovah's witness earlier on in my but after my grandmother passed my mom did not continue raising us that way.

When I was in high school I started having bible studies with my cousin and after a few of those sessions I was like naahhhhh son you good.

I'm a Catholic, attended an incredibly liberal university, educated myself, and I am still a Catholic. Sorries. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.

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but not for that reason alone

I was raised Catholic and spend 16 years in Catholic school, but now I'm decidedly atheist and pretty anti-theist tbh

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Me, but I took the fact that I could never stay awake in church as a sign that, that shit was not for me.

Here. But it was more like education + logic + anti-misogyny.

Methodist but never cared about it anyways tbh

I was raised Agnostic, but by virtue of growing up in Oklahoma, I got into church and was pretty much a Jesus Freak in high school. At least, outwardly. It was a social thing, really.

But I dropped the act after I went to a church camp, where I heard the preacher share this bullshit about how there are people with dark skin because some guy got hot while looking at his dad naked, so God cursed him by turning his skin black.

I was pretty thoroughly indoctrinated there for a bit, but I was always more of a secular humanist deep inside, so it wasn't like denouncing religion was a big deal for me.

i was raised christian, and i don't agree with a lot of things in the bible, but it's hard for me to believe that there's no god. i don't call myself a christian though.

Yeah, I was raised Catholic and went to a Convent school- the whole lot. Idt I ever really believed it, it just never connected with me, even when I was a child. I've probably identified myself as being completely atheist for about eight years now.

I'm agnostic.

I was raised Catholic and made it up to my first communion, but the version of Catholicism I was taught (the more conservative kind) really put me off. I think had I been raised in the type of Church, Catholic or otherwise, that was progressive and more accepting of a life slightly apart from the archaic teachings of the Bible, then I probably still would consider myself religious.

Instead, I was told daily that I was going to Hell in a hand-basket. So I guess technically I'm agnostic now while I wait for a religion that fits and supports my beliefs.

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I used to identify as Christian, but looking back I'm not really sure I ever truly believed in a higher power. I think I said I was Christian because I grew up in the Bible belt and that's what society expected of me. My family was never very religious, so I didn't really grow up in a church. I used to go to Bible study groups with friends all the time, but it never interested me. I started to question religion when I was 13 or 14, and became agnostic in high school. Then in college I became an atheist.

I'm Catholic and while I'm educated I'm still religious. I build my beliefs around science with religion mixed to suit it.

i was raised christian and during high school i decided i didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

i'm agnostic, although i spend a lot of time doubting there is a god

yep. did the whole sunday school, confirmation, communion, etc

then one day i just knew better

My parents took me to church (a super laid-back, liberal Methodist one) because they wanted me to have some exposure to it, mostly out of guilt (my Mom grew up in a super-evangelical household). They themselves always made it clear that they hated "whoopy Christians" (their term), though, and are self-described agnostics. I call myself non-theist, though.

Me.

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I was a Catholic and stopped being one when I was about 13, questioning my sexuality, and reading multiple books about the roles of women in the Bible.

hi.
blame feminism, mom.

I was raised Baptist and when I realized in my early 20s I think basing an entire religion on what some random dude (Paul) said about a dude he never met is bullshit, I slowly drifted towards non-Christian. I have never believed in he supernatural aspects, I jokingly called myself a Jeffersonian Christian. Now I'm totally an atheist. The only reason it took so long is even as a smart person, it's hard to let go of something you've been told to believe in your whole life.

I was raised as Catholic, when I was like 12 I was asked by my grandmother to do my first communion and after that never set foot in a curch again. I'm atheist.

I'm not going to say that I educated myself more on it... I just looked at the state of the world around me one day and was like, fuck that shit. If there is a God, I don't want any part of it.

I went to a Christian school for 12 years. Once I went to college my mind was opened to so many different beliefs and it changed me. I wouldn't call myself a Christian necessarily, because I have a problem with religion. I believe in God and I believe in spirituality. I don't necessarily feel the need to follow the Bible, which was written by men.

*raises both hands in glee*

Born and raised in a religious household, attended "christian" school from 1st-8th grade, which included chapel every Wednesday, was forced to attend church and Sunday school every Sunday till I was about 15.

My shift and adoption of liberal views definitely helped. As did moving out.

I was raised in a charismatic church (speaking in tongues, falling out in the spirit, etc), which I was never comfortable with. As a kid I would ask about things in the Bible that didn't make sense to me and my mom would get flustered because she didn't think I should be questioning in the first place. But I'm not the type to accept things without thinking them through. As I got older and started to realize I didn't believe everything in the Bible (as opposed to the fundamentalist views I was raised with), I started seeking out more liberal sects of Christianity. But after a while, I figured if I didn't believe all of it, why bother? I never really felt a connection to any higher power and believing in one wouldn't be a benefit to me. So I identify as agnostic. I pretty much lean toward atheism, but I'm not really one to believe in absolutes.

Raised Catholic, now consider myself agnostic. My brother's an atheist. Both of us were sent to Catholic school. Funny how that worked out.

Me. I was raised in a fundamental Baptist home. Thank lawd jesus that I educated myself. The moment I realistic that there was no God it felt like a cloud of fog cleared from inside my head and I was thinking clearly.

I was raised Catholic and I do believe and pray to God (especially when shit gets crazy lol) but I stopped going to church the moment my parents stopped forcing me to go. As a woman, as a feminist, and as someone who supports LGBT rights and equality I just don't feel I can't be part of it.

i was raised christian but my discovery of liking pussy and my studies of feminism put me on a different direction

i still have faith, but in regards to religion...i'm just kinda in limbo rn

i don't believe and i don't not believe, i just don't give a shit at the moment

I was raised Catholic but not hardcore and I think that made the difference. Like I didn't attend private school and I haven't even done my first communion but I believe in God so I stay Catholic. All religions basically believe in the same thing, different story, I find no point in changing.

I was. Now I'm a to the marrow atheist.

i was. i was a catholic until age 16 (i was one because i had educated myself, and truly believed in the religious - not just because i had been raised that way), then one day stuff started to not make sense logically to me. over around two months, i went from a christianity, to deism, to agnostic atheism. i pretty much prefer to just say i'm irreligious though, as opposed to having a specific "label".

Well, my family is Catholic and I went to Catholic/Christian schools, but I just sort of...stopped believing in God when I was about 8. And growing older and becoming more educated and aware of social issues has just reinforced my non-belief.

yo.

I was Jewish, and then I studied science in college. Oop.

i was catholic until last year with the proclamation that invetro was a sin and i couldn't ignore all the problematic elements in the church and couldnt be a part of something that seemed from a global perspective seemed to hate me for things i have no control over. I dont even know what to call my self now I still believe in a higher power and still structure my life with basic christian teachings but i dont consider myself a christian anymore.

I was raised Methodist, but I don't know that education necessarily has anything to do with my no longer being Christian. I remember being a senior in high school and certain things just not sitting right with me anymore (although the reason I stopped attending church was pretty superficial: basically one of the teachers at my high school was also the Sunday school teacher for the teens, and she was fucking annoying and judgmental and pushy as hell and I couldn't take it anymore, so I stopped going). I had always been interested in the study of religion anyway, but studying other myths didn't lead me away from Christianity or anything either--I was into the Greek pantheon LONG before I ever dreamed of not being Christian anymore, and it was even several years after that initial loss of faith that I started to view any other concept of god(s) as viable for myself. I know by sophomore year of college, if not by mid-freshman, I was identifying as agnostic, and now I feel more pantheist than anything. For me personally, I believe primarily in the energy of the universe, in balance, I guess, and I kind of view gods as anthropomorphic expressions of various aspects of life.

Now I WOULD say that my studies definitely led me toward the idea of goddess...appreciation is maybe a better word than worship for me. I minored in Classical studies simply because I loved Greco-Roman mythology so much, and I wrote my thesis on Anne Rice and the use of goddess archetypes, so that's stayed with me through the years.

That is waaaaay more information than you even wanted, isn't it?

I don't know what to call myself. Over the past couple of years, I've been finding myself less Christian. I kinda still believe in God, but with all this shit in my personal life and how some Christians feel about gays... yeah, I don't want all that.

I was raised Catholic, made my communion and confirmation, even though by the time I was making my confirmation I was telling my mom I thought it was bullshit, I don't think I ever believed in god tbh.

Science and logic turned me into an atheist.

one time when i was like 14 or something my mom asked me if i believed in god and i lied and said yes cause i thought she might get mad at me if i said no lol i didn't just one day decide i wasn't christian, i just always knew i didn't believe in god. i just considered myself an agnostic for a long time. after age 25-ish i started to identify as atheist

Me! My ancient history classes did a job on me, good lord. Things stopped adding up.

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I was raised Catholic and although my parents never really shoved it down my throat they did send me to Catholic preschool. I made it a year before I was like fuck this I want to go to public school. I never really 'felt' anything in church and I could not with the crap they taught us.

Also, my parents didn't have me baptized because the church apparently frowned on my dad being divorced, so when I found out that they basically didn't want me I was 'like later bitches, I didn't even like it here'.

I was raised in a form of Pentecostal Christianity that saw Satan behind every corner. (Weirdly enough, we were Italian-American, but weren't Catholic due to a bad experience my great-aunt had with a priest.)

It was around middle school and high school when I realized just how ridiculous it all was. Me reading up on science and religion patronizing and hating me for being disabled and gay sealed the deal.

I was raised Catholic, but am now agnostic.

I was raised Catholic, did my communion, confirmation etc, but I now consider myself agnostic. I never really ever felt a connection to my religion.

Mormon for the first 20 years of life. Got married in the temple and the questioning began. Happily atheist now.

me. raised christian but i've been distancing myself from church

raised protestant but went to catholic school up until high school

had a lot of shit happen and said fuck this i ain't prayin to no imaginary man in the sky, i am the person who made myself what i am today, not someone i dont even know exists and he didn't help me when i did pray to him so fuck that

but tbh now i am rediscovering spirituality and stuff but i consider myself 'non-religious'

i fully respect other religions, however, and love learning about them even if i dont believe in them. i find it fascinating :x

Me. I wasn't really "Christian." Or, I was a Christian as a child could get. If anyone outside of the church corrected me for saying things "bible-related", I took what they said, compared it, and realized what the bible what telling me didn't really make sense in the real world, or lack any sense thereof. This was around 2nd or third grade.

I attended a Methodist school for 10 years and a Catholic school for 2 years and had weekly sleepovers at my Christian aunt's house and attended church with her every Sunday for 7 years, so I guess I was sorta raised religiously (even though my parents didn't want to have anything to do with it). All my friends are either Christian or Catholic save a few, but even after all that I never really believed in religion. I just enjoyed singing songs in church and that was it. I'm not against religion though, and I quite like to listen to my friends talk about their worship services and read the bible.

Raised a Christian and went to Catholic School. I believed in the things I was taught AND fully believed in Science too. BUT I'm not sure what I consider myself now. Because of recent events, I still fully believe in a higher power but I doubt the Bible and I don't believe in the existence of an afterlife.

I was brought up Catholic, but as I got older I stopped going to Church. There are many elements of that religion which I can't endorse anymore, but I don't think I'm entirely atheist.

Raised Catholic, Went to a Catholic university and still practice, but I practice what I believe. I still believe in birth control and sex before marriage etc.

IKR!?

Cept that she thinks that a she thinks a womans self-esteem should be dictated by what men find attractive.



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Yeah, I think she's done pretty well for someone who was raised a hardcore Christian in Tennessee. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but with the parents she has etc....she's really open-minded imo.

ia!!

my mom is so angry that i renounced judaism. we were never even serious about it- i went to hebrew school once a week for like 2 years and had a bat mitzvah. but i think all organized religion is evil bullshit

gorl watch your mouth and watch what you say about mama tish!!

I know. I don't like people calling her out as a "rebellious teenager." I really don't think her going against the way she was raised is a bad thing /:

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yeah...I think its okay if you ultimately decide to remain religious, or to become non relgious, but I think its really important to actually sit down and think it all through, rather than just blindly go along believing anything that anybody tells you.