Question for DUers who grew up religious, and rejected that relgion

[Curmudgeoness]

27. You think too much about it.

I was raised Presbyterian, and I remember when I was in catechism (about age 13), we had it drilled into us that other religions were so bad. They all had it wrong, and we had it right. That was when I first questioned this whole religion thing. I soon rejected established religion, but not god at that time. I think that the people who profess god so much and lived such evil lives put me over the edge (well, them, and that god did not strike them dead).

At that point, maybe I had done enough thinking about it so I did not have guilt about it. But I do not think much about it anymore. What happens, happens. Good things happen to bad people, and bad things happen to good people. All the time. There is no sense to much of it. We all still have parts of what we learned in us---you cannot get away from it. Focus on what was good that you are carrying with you: Treating people well, helping the poor, ridding yourself of prejudices, thou shalt not kill, etc. There is a lot of good in what you were taught---and hell and damnation is not the good part.

And your mom might be right about "take what you want, and then pay for it". Same as "you made your bed, now lie in it". Maybe there are things that you did that are weighing you down. But that is in the past and you can only move forward, so put your focus on what you can do. But it really doesn't have to have anything to do with "sin" and all the other religion baggage. It is life.