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Interesting you should mention that. I began to think that at about the same age too.
In sunday school. What got me was I didn't really see the fire and brimstone bit so much in the printed words. All the harsh scolding rhetoric was from the adults running/teaching the class. I immediately thought "Who the hell are they to say what's what?" ( in so many words ) I kind of sensed right then and there that it was all BS for the express purpose of controlling others. After I got my confirmation at 13, my parents let me stop attending church. Never went to one since other than for weddings/funerals.