What do you regret about your childhood spiritual education?
NH Baritone asked:
All of us in childhood were explicitly or implicitly taught some lessons about spirituality (even if it was denial that the supernatural exists).
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All of us in childhood were explicitly or implicitly taught some lessons about spirituality (even if it was denial that the supernatural exists).
What do you wish had been different about your childhood indoctrination into spiritual belief or non-belief?
Owen
November 1st, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Alexa
My parents were intelligent liberal Christians, they encouraged me to think for myself. In fact, If I could talk to them now, I think they would be surprised to learn that their beliefs are more in line with deism. When I first heard of deism, only a few years ago, I was amazed that it described exactly what I had always believed.
November 3rd, 2010 at 1:10 am
Henry
The Catholics deprived me of learning the true Word of God.
They taught their Catechism – a Reader’s Digest version of the Bible.
November 3rd, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Nathan
I wish my parents had allowed me to choose what I believed, instead of forcing me to go to Christian school and church.
November 5th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Audrey
It was a nightmare and im glad its over….
November 8th, 2010 at 1:23 am
Sebastian
I have no regrets in that area.
November 8th, 2010 at 4:09 am
Layla
I regret that it occurred in the first place. I am, at 48, still in the process of un-wiring the wired-in beliefs that my fundamentalist Christian father instilled in me.
November 8th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Zachary
EVERYTHING, and that is my Final Answer.
It made me the Demon that I am Today.
November 11th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Jonathan
The canings from the sadistic nuns.
November 14th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Jason
I wish I was born an Asatruar…….but
After thinking more on your question, had I not been raised the way I was, I would have never discovered Asatru as an adult. I do regret my family being involved in 2 ‘Christian’ cults and the pain, anger and sorrow we endured, but then that experience is what motivated me to seek spirituality.
@Tara J.
I see our lovely lady of trolldom has returned. Speaking of burning………http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7oA-pnGGw8
Feuer Frei – Rammstein Lyrics and English Translation.
November 15th, 2010 at 4:59 am
Brianna
I regret that my parents were so over the top…young earth creationists, biblical literalists, mysigonists. Coming out from under their influence was such a struggle that I went straight to atheism after invalidating christianity; pendulum effect.
I would have enjoyed the opportunity to take my time with my spirituality, explore and search a little more. But it’s ok. I can still learn everything that I want to, just from a different perspective.
November 17th, 2010 at 8:44 am
Caleb
I wish my family had been more knowledgeable, more faithful practitioners of Christianity. There are so many blessings that we could have experienced earlier, walking with God. After all Jesus said in John 10:10
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
November 17th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Daniel
I regret not being more pointed with my criticisms and questions about the problems I had with the Christian faith.
November 19th, 2010 at 8:52 am
Victoria
That I was not raised with faith. I was confused a lot of years about God (but thankfully He helped me to find Him).
As a child I never had any sunday school activities though 3 years after I was baptized catholic I served as Sunday school teacher for the next 18 years. I know kids need and have the right for spriritual guidance.
November 22nd, 2010 at 5:56 am
Kayla
I regret wasting all that time believing in baloney.
November 25th, 2010 at 5:23 am
Aaron
I regret everything about the entire hellish nightmare that it was. I wish I would have had the opportunity to decide for myself what I believed or didn’t believe, instead I was threatened, shamed and even beaten into following my parents beliefs.
November 26th, 2010 at 7:16 am
Logan
I really don’t regret it. I have no idea what my life would have been like if I were not brainwashed like I was. I consider it a learning experience.
November 27th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Ava
I regret that I was not aware of the Love and Joy that could be had by knowing that Jesus loves me.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Evan
I regret not having anyone willing to help me along the way; it was two extremes of either believing without question or just figure it out as you go along.
Neither forcing a child to believe or leaving them without any belief is good for them.
November 30th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Sydney
personally i regret not being brought into the fold of Father Satan. Having to live around a wide variety of obviously self-hating, spiritless, mindless zombies left me with a head full of bad wiring and i am still undoing the damage. Hmmm never question the church we all know what that gets us whether christian or otherwise. Personally i think in hindsight i should have gradually fed them all of the pages of a bible and later told them so they would know how i felt.
December 2nd, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Nathaniel
I wish I had known a saved Christian who would have explained the gospel to me.