I think it's more the advice they gave on ethics. Also, the Parable of the Good Samaritan just kind of lodged in my brain at a young age. I don't think I've ever been worried about hell... which really bothered some of the people I went to high school with, let me tell you.
I don't think I really realized that maybe going to a church was a social thing for my parents, rather than a thing they did because they believed in God, until I sat and wrote that comment above, but thinking about it... yeah. We stopped going to church when I was about 10 or 11, and that was when we'd been in the area for 2-3 years, and my parents had a sort of social life.
Over the past few years, my dad has become a rather militant atheist. The vocal and embarrassing sort of militant atheist. To the point of actively discriminating against people who are religious. It's been mildly horrifying, because I think I'm more of the "You've thought it out? It brings balance/comfort/joy to your life? You're not actively harming anyone or anything by practicing it? Go for it." sort of atheist.
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Date: 2010-12-02 03:57 pm (UTC)I don't think I really realized that maybe going to a church was a social thing for my parents, rather than a thing they did because they believed in God, until I sat and wrote that comment above, but thinking about it... yeah. We stopped going to church when I was about 10 or 11, and that was when we'd been in the area for 2-3 years, and my parents had a sort of social life.
Over the past few years, my dad has become a rather militant atheist. The vocal and embarrassing sort of militant atheist. To the point of actively discriminating against people who are religious. It's been mildly horrifying, because I think I'm more of the "You've thought it out? It brings balance/comfort/joy to your life? You're not actively harming anyone or anything by practicing it? Go for it." sort of atheist.