Archived What event made you question the political/ideological/religious/etc. group you belonged to? (AskVoat)
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Archived What event made you question the political/ideological/religious/etc. group you belonged to? (AskVoat)
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[–] VicVac 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Look at all these former Roman Catholics here... I smell a conspiracy!
Well, if there is a former Roman Catholic conspiracy on Voat, I too am a part of it as a former Roman Catholic. I started to question it mostly because of the internet, with most websites being largely populated by Atheists it was inevitable I'd run into some. Most of the discussion didn't phase my young mind at first, but it did slowly start to eat away at my faith. Over a year or two it slowly wore my belief away, and, somewhat ironically, the tipping point was something we were told at the church classes you take as a Roman Catholic. It was something along the lines of "look deep down in your heart and find out why you really believe." And that's exactly what I did, and what I found is that I didn't really have a reason other than that was how I was raised, nothing more. I figured that if I was born a house down the street, I'd be some sort of protestant; if I was born in India, I'd be Hindu; and if I was born somewhere in the Middle East, I'd be Muslim. That was no reason to believe, so I stopped and now consider myself Agnostic.
It also didn't help that puberty did some voodoo magic on me and I ended up gay. That certainly didn't help me stay religious.