australopithecus
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Background:
I was challenged to address my loss/lack of faith, so I said "Fair enough". As of yet it's been pretty slow and uninteresting but I was promised "it will be painful" so I live in hope and post here in said hope that it becomes interesting.
From the age of 4 to 13, every sunday not counting the times it was a mandatory part of going to catholic school. I stopped voluntarily going because I moved house and the usual church I went to was miles away and because I started questioning the whole God thing in general.
No, I continued going to catholic school until the age of 16 (19 if you count advanced studies). The reason I didn't include the times I went to church as dictated by the school was because in relation to my own personal faith it was irrelevant. I was expected, as all students were, to attend mass regardless of faith. Between the ages of 4 and 13 are the times I willingly and voluntarily went to mass.
As for my parents my mother is christians and my father is apathetic, he holds no opinion either way.
Yep, 26 years last month.
I didn't emulate either of them, and as for relating I related more with my maternal grandfather than my parents.
He was a christian, and I always related more to him than my parents. He was interested in the same things I was and I spent a lot of my childhood with my grandparents because they lived a couple of doors away from me.
5 years ago.
Not really, it wasn't that important. Or at least relatively unimportant, besides I kept my lack or loss of religious faith to myself with regards to my grandparents as to not worry my grandmother who was a typical ultra-mega-full on Irish Catholic. The type of grandmother who'd lose sleep worrying if you had a cold so I really didn't want her to turn insomniac over worrying about an eternal soul I don't believe in.
She hasn't expressed an opinion. She knows I don't believe what she does, she's fine with it.
I haven't made my mind up. I lack faith in God not believe there is no God. I'm simply waiting for any evidence to support the claim there is one. And no, I didn't discuss it, any discussion would have been irrelevant.
No, but then science is objective while religious faith is subjective. Any discussion would simply be 2 people asserting subjective opinions and would have no bearing on anything.
I was challenged to address my loss/lack of faith, so I said "Fair enough". As of yet it's been pretty slow and uninteresting but I was promised "it will be painful" so I live in hope and post here in said hope that it becomes interesting.
I believe you said before your parents, or at least one of them, are a believer. What ages did you go to church and when did you stop?
From the age of 4 to 13, every sunday not counting the times it was a mandatory part of going to catholic school. I stopped voluntarily going because I moved house and the usual church I went to was miles away and because I started questioning the whole God thing in general.
Which parent was a believer, or was it both? You mention that you moved. Is that when you stopped going to Catholic school?
No, I continued going to catholic school until the age of 16 (19 if you count advanced studies). The reason I didn't include the times I went to church as dictated by the school was because in relation to my own personal faith it was irrelevant. I was expected, as all students were, to attend mass regardless of faith. Between the ages of 4 and 13 are the times I willingly and voluntarily went to mass.
As for my parents my mother is christians and my father is apathetic, he holds no opinion either way.
Are your parents still married?
Yep, 26 years last month.
Good for them. Which parent do you relate to best? Who did you emulate as a teenager?
I didn't emulate either of them, and as for relating I related more with my maternal grandfather than my parents.
And what does your maternal grandfather believe? At what age did you start relating with him more than your parents?
He was a christian, and I always related more to him than my parents. He was interested in the same things I was and I spent a lot of my childhood with my grandparents because they lived a couple of doors away from me.
When did your grandfather pass away?
5 years ago.
Did you talk about faith much with him?
Not really, it wasn't that important. Or at least relatively unimportant, besides I kept my lack or loss of religious faith to myself with regards to my grandparents as to not worry my grandmother who was a typical ultra-mega-full on Irish Catholic. The type of grandmother who'd lose sleep worrying if you had a cold so I really didn't want her to turn insomniac over worrying about an eternal soul I don't believe in.
So what about your mother? How does she feel about the soul you don't believe in?
She hasn't expressed an opinion. She knows I don't believe what she does, she's fine with it.
Did you discuss your questions of faith with anyone before you made your mind up?
I haven't made my mind up. I lack faith in God not believe there is no God. I'm simply waiting for any evidence to support the claim there is one. And no, I didn't discuss it, any discussion would have been irrelevant.
When you seek evidence of a scientific nature do you rely only on your own findings?
No, but then science is objective while religious faith is subjective. Any discussion would simply be 2 people asserting subjective opinions and would have no bearing on anything.