Now I'm trying to remember what my mindset was when my family still went to church. I'm not sure I ever really believed in most of the stuff I heard in Bible school. I suspect that part of the reason it just never stuck was because my parents didn't really seem to be taking it seriously either, and just went to church because they'd always gone to church, and when we moved to a new place it was kind of a social thing, rather than a "we believe this" thing.
So I don't think that atheism was necessarily my default, since I was aware of religion and decided it wasn't for me and that it was rather silly to believe in some of the things they believed. But I also think that my personal moral code was heavily influenced by religion when I was young. It's also entirely possible that I'm making that up, and that I did default to atheism. Hm.
When I have kids, I'm probably going to spend a lot of time teaching them about a lot of different religions, just so they have awareness of them. That way, if they ever get the "You're going to hell" thing, they can have snappy answers, like "Well, you're probably going to Hel too, unless you plan on dying valiantly in battle and heading to Valhalla instead."
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Date: 2010-12-02 12:23 pm (UTC)So I don't think that atheism was necessarily my default, since I was aware of religion and decided it wasn't for me and that it was rather silly to believe in some of the things they believed. But I also think that my personal moral code was heavily influenced by religion when I was young. It's also entirely possible that I'm making that up, and that I did default to atheism. Hm.
When I have kids, I'm probably going to spend a lot of time teaching them about a lot of different religions, just so they have awareness of them. That way, if they ever get the "You're going to hell" thing, they can have snappy answers, like "Well, you're probably going to Hel too, unless you plan on dying valiantly in battle and heading to Valhalla instead."