Over the years, I've met quite a few people that ended up changing their stance on religion. Usually it is people deciding to switch away from the religion of their childhood that was largely forced upon them by the parentals units. For many of the ones that did, they seem pretty strongly opposed to the idea of organized religion. In some cases, the repression and force-fed righteousness probably caused more harm than good. There's a reason why people joke about trying to find a preacher's daughter to teach you things that you had never even heard about. It seems rather unfortunate that they were basically forced to attend against their will.
The other night, I was at my friends' house when a church group stopped by. They were looking for her youngest son. While she is not a member of that church, she called him over. While she doesn't necessarily support the church, she thought it was extremely important to let him decide for himself. If only the rest of the world worked that way.
In all fairness, I'm sure there are a large number of people that find religion later on in their life. I just don't happen to know any of them.
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For me, the thing about organized religion is what I consider the blatent hipocricy of it all.
The "Go to church and stop by the mistresses house on the way home..." behavior that I have seen. Drives me batty.
Posted by Bob Smith | April 28, 2005 9:42 AM
Posted on April 28, 2005 09:42