Religion
In reply to the discussion: A question if you want to answer. What caused you to deconstruct from your religion. [View all]mwb970
(11,881 posts)I must be one of those who are missing the religion gene. Right from the beginning the Bible stories at Sunday School were patently impossible and contradicted all my science books. The only thing more obviously false was the Santa Claus story. (Reindeer being able to fly would have been mentioned in my nature books. Chimeys don't go straight down. Toys are made in factories, not elves' workshops. And so on.) I struggled to understand why the adults in my life appeared to believe these things.
I have listened to religious people spout the most extraordinary blather for all of my life. It still baffles me.
I am not saying we have all the answers to the mysteries of life. I am saying that the answer does not involve an invisible, undetectable male "god" and (good grief) his human child (also a male) delivered by a virgin. At best it is all an awkward allegory.
I will add that when I was in high school I had one Sunday School teacher (a sports coach at the high school) who gave us life lessons and new ways of looking at things that I have never forgotten. I had him for a full year and he never once so much as mentioned God or Jesus or the Bible or any of that. (Some Sunday School teacher right?) I never missed a class.
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