I still look back and think about how much time I wasted and how many opportunities I may have missed out on because of religious activities. I know that if I had been able to work on Sunday's throughout high school I would have been able to make a lot more money to put towards college and other things that I wanted. I also would have qualified for a promotion and pay increase earlier.
Of course, at the time I didn't realize that I was wasting my time. I was brainwashed enough to think that by sacrificing my time to serve God I would be rewarded. I also did have fun socializing with all my friends during religious activities.
Even since I have come out to everyone as an atheist I have gone to a few religious activities because I didn't really want to rock the boat. Well, as another new year resolution I am not going to go to any religious activity that I don't want to. I feel that by going to religious activities now I am not only doing something I don't want to do I also giving false hope the Christians in my family. I really don't want to make them think that a sermon is going to change my mind.
Michael_White 36p · 844 weeks ago
I have learnt a lot through those experiences which makes it easier for me to relate to Christians. Although I now refuse to take any part which makes problems with finding friends to hang out with at home. A little social problem of mine but I am so much more intellectual satisfied with my decision.
Besides, they work mostly with young teenagers, how could I lie to them? It seems clear to me there isn't a God. The world screams it out but yet theology takes rule and their world is changed, distorted. Bah, you have got me reminiscing!
Anyway, time for sleep, past 11pm in Britain. Thanks for the read! I should try to blog a little more.
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I have been in churches since, mostly for non-religious reasons (churches are used for everything in the south), and a few times for ceremonies that I could not avoid even though I did not condone the religious aspect of the ceremony (marriages, child dedications, etc).
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