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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 03:43 PM Original message |
I was indoctrinated into religion against my will as a child. Were you? |
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Rob H.
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Thu Dec-01-05 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. Nope. Never indoctrinated. |
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seabeyond
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Thu Dec-01-05 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. nope. different times my parents tried church |
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triguy46
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Thu Dec-01-05 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. When I was a kid, if I screwed up bad... |
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Bandit
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Thu Dec-01-05 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
4. and I don't feel like I was damaged by the process, |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. LOL! |
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FreedomAngel82
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Thu Dec-01-05 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
5. Nah |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. I don't regret going to church, even though I didn't want to go |
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Yollam
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
7. I went to sunday school a time or two... |
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Cleita
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
8. Yeah, I was sort of. Although baptized a Catholic and |
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MadHound
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
9. Hell you were lucky, I was double dipped |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:06 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Double dipped! |
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KitchenWitch
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
10. Yes |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:08 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. And are you now Pagan? |
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KitchenWitch
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:09 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Pagan - Yes, |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:17 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Well done! (no pun intended) |
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KitchenWitch
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:29 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Precisely, although I did not know it at the time! |
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City of Mills
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
12. I'm with you |
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Neil Lisst
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
13. Yes, and I've made them pay for it ever since!! |
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Moochy
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
16. Never Confirmed |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:13 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I remember trying hard to think of sins that I could confess. |
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Moochy
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Self-fulfilling prophecy |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:19 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Aha! |
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Moochy
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:27 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Marketing 101 :) |
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hunter
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Fri Dec-02-05 02:38 PM Response to Reply #19 |
47. I probably shouldn't say this, but... |
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Betty
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
18. I went to church every week until I was out of the house |
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Dem Agog
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
23. Yes, 15 years of "Christian" school... |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:30 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. I think Catholic is easier than Fundie |
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Dem Agog
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:32 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. At least Catholicism has history and tradition... Judaism too... |
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scarlet_owl
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
25. Nope. I was baptized and confirmed as an adult, completely |
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windlight
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
27. ex-Lutheran here |
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Matariki
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
29. i thank god regularly that my parents were atheists ;-) |
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WritingIsMyReligion
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
30. Haha--When I was younger, my mother liekd me to go to "CCD." |
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Swamp Rat
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
32. NO! Thank goddess! |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:38 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Aren't you from NOLA? |
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hunter
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Fri Dec-02-05 02:45 PM Response to Reply #32 |
48. That's a lovely postcard to Khephra. |
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mitchum
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
33. Never....my parents let me quit going to church when I was 10... |
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GreenPartyVoter
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
35. Yes and no |
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funflower
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Sat Dec-03-05 05:12 AM Response to Reply #35 |
50. Congratulations on your emancipation, GreenPartyVoter. |
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GreenPartyVoter
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Sat Dec-03-05 04:26 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. Thanks :^) |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
36. Damn it all I got moved to the Religion forum! |
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Karenina
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Thu Dec-01-05 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
37. Confine such discussions to the basement!!! |
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nemo137
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Sat Dec-03-05 06:34 PM Response to Reply #37 |
56. sounds like a decent priest. |
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Chovexani
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Thu Dec-01-05 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
38. Recovering Evangelical, here |
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Maat
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Thu Dec-01-05 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
39. I was taken to Laguna Presbyterian Church .. |
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barb162
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Thu Dec-01-05 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
40. Weren't just about all of us? |
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eeyore
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Thu Dec-01-05 06:40 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Of course... |
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barb162
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Fri Dec-02-05 12:07 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. I know, I know |
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NAO
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Thu Dec-01-05 09:23 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. see my post below #42 for the same sentiment |
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barb162
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Fri Dec-02-05 12:16 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. uh-huh |
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nemo137
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Sat Dec-03-05 06:32 PM Response to Reply #45 |
55. We went to service at a synagogue as part of my confirmation |
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Inland
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Sat Dec-03-05 08:24 PM Response to Reply #40 |
57. Yes, but instead of "being raised," say "repressed" or "indoctrinated". |
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Dervill Crow
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Sat Dec-03-05 09:12 PM Response to Reply #40 |
58. I wasn't, but I admit that I dragged my kids to church. |
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NAO
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Thu Dec-01-05 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
42. Yes, but I wouldn't put it that way. My parents sincerely believed it |
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freestyle
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Fri Dec-02-05 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
46. Raised Episcopalian and have freely embraced it as an adult. |
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nemo137
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Sat Dec-03-05 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
49. Yes. I was also conditioned into Midwestern, working class, Euro-American |
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immoderate
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Sat Dec-03-05 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
51. My situation is similar, but Jewish. |
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fenderbender89
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Sat Dec-03-05 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
52. I know the feeling |
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Lydia Leftcoast
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Sat Dec-03-05 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
53. I was a preacher's kid (Lutheran), but church was just our way of life |
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