| pearljammer said: I don't suppose I was ever really a christian. I was raised catholic, but had only believed in God much in the same way I had Santa Claus. My struggle with it in my early years as a developing adolescent were very short, much like other beliefs I may have held at that time. So why did I distance myself from it? I guess I'd been skepical and couldn't have been bothered with it at an early age. My family didn't pressure me nor were they so open of their beliefs around us, so that helped me to make up my own mind; I didn't have anyone to appease nor to model. I haven't gone back to see if there is anything that strikes me as an adult as the very concept of belief is silly to me. |
You should go back and see as an adult.
I think it's good that many young people who grew up in religion leave and experience the world, but many go back to religion - I think for a very good reason. I enjoy talking with people who left the faith and come back to it much more than people of faith that never left cause they want to be obedient.
C.S. Lewis said in mere Christianity that when young people leave the church after high school actually are getting closer to God.
