Losing your religion?

PH01 · 23-08-2005 04:02PM #1

Following on from "Losing your virginity" and in the words of REM, when did you lose your religion?
I lost mine at 14

It'll be funny if the trends match up...

Blisterman · 23-08-2005 04:03PM

Who says everyone has lost their religion?

PH01 · 23-08-2005 04:06PM

Blisterman wrote:

Who says everyone has lost their religion?

That's true b'man. Then the answer is never.

THEZAPPA · 23-08-2005 04:08PM

i lost mine when i was born!

i never believed in religion

Rb · 23-08-2005 04:12PM

When I was 16 with my girlfriend in her parents bed...and i don't regret a thing

Blisterman · 23-08-2005 04:19PM

PH01 wrote:

That's true b'man. Then the answer is never.

Sorry, posted that before the poll came up.

Le Rack · 23-08-2005 04:43PM

I hate religion, I'll have respect for those who believe in it but as far as I can see it's been one of the main factors in a lot of world troubles through the ages.

THEZAPPA · 23-08-2005 04:48PM

Le Rack wrote:

I hate religion, I'll have respect for those who believe in it but as far as I can see it's been one of the main factors in a lot of world troubles through the ages.

i agree with you there,that is how i feel about it!

Le Rack · 23-08-2005 04:49PM

Woot, someone who agrees with me! Usually people don't!

THEZAPPA · 23-08-2005 04:52PM

Le Rack wrote:

Woot, someone who agrees with me! Usually people don't!

yeh i agree with you!

and no one i know agrees with me!

i didnt do religion in school! my teacher hated me for it!

joejoem · 23-08-2005 04:55PM

Id say I started to loose it earlier, but christianity became a sham to me at 16

Kinetic^ · 23-08-2005 04:55PM

Its plays no part in my life, no need for it to either. I go to mass every christmas eve with my mother and thats the only time i frequent a church unless i've a funeral or wedding to go to.

THEZAPPA · 23-08-2005 04:58PM

i never go to church!

the last time i was in chyrch was 7 years ago!

Le Rack · 23-08-2005 04:59PM

THEZAPPA wrote:

yeh i agree with you!

and no one i know agrees with me!

i didnt do religion in school! my teacher hated me for it!

ooh, I made a perfectly plausable theory that God is evil and the teachers went mad over it, we had a few subs, and now the teacher always seeks my opinion for absolutely anything in class, its so funny, I always get big heated debates going!

Naos · 23-08-2005 05:05PM

Le Rack wrote:

Woot, someone who agrees with me! Usually people don't!

What a complete load of nonsense. A lot of people have the exact same sentiments towards religion, so your opinion is neither unique nor original.

As for the OPs poll, I voted on "15". Although I cant remember when I lost it exactly, I figure it to be around that time, due to fact I had the 'big JC' coming up and assumed someone had to be mocking me with the coincidental title initals of this exam with that of aul JC himself and the impending doom of being a failure to life(ie hell)

Therefore, based on that outstanding evidence, I can conclude that religion was founded by a group of PE teachers who had got no respect in the teaching trade and instead insisted on creating this new subject which was 'open' to debate and so one would have to have a high intellect and profound knowledge in philosophy.

THEZAPPA · 23-08-2005 05:05PM

Le Rack wrote:

ooh, I made a perfectly plausable theory that God is evil and the teachers went mad over it, we had a few subs, and now the teacher always seeks my opinion for absolutely anything in class, its so funny, I always get big heated debates going!

ha,i just never did anything in class and the teacher said im better off not doing religion!
so i got to do my homework in class!
but the teacher always looked at me like i was evil and like she felt sorry for me!

R0ot · 23-08-2005 05:11PM

Lost my religon when i was 12, regained christianity when i was 18

Le Rack · 23-08-2005 05:11PM

Mear wrote:

What a complete load of nonsense. A lot of people have the exact same sentiments towards religion, so your opinion is neither unique nor original.

Oh go bollocks yourself, Anyone I ever say that to doesn't agree with me even though I know other people feel the same. I never said my opinion was unique or original just that ew to no one agrees with me when I say it.

joejoem · 23-08-2005 05:17PM

The last time I was in a church was for a friends fathers rememberance mass, I spent the whole time in disgust listening to what the priest was saying. He was talking about how bad the parish was, that they hadnt given enough money up in collection. There was a further section about how we have to go out and save homosexuals and people who let there marriage fall apart. I felt like giving him the finger and walking out.

In case this sounds made up, its not, my first time in a church in years, I even hate the idea of going to a wedding.

IceHawk · 23-08-2005 05:18PM

Soon after I started secondary school. I think it's just part of a trend in this country, though. My parents never went to mass, so neither did I. The only exposure to organised religion was at school. All my grandparents were religious, so I'd say if I spent more time with them I'd have held onto the church for longer.

Does anybody else sort of envy religious people their faith? They believe in a divine plan and honestly believe everything will work out for the best. I try to be optimistic, but can't compete with some people's blind belief.

Sleepy · 23-08-2005 05:25PM

I haven't even founded my religion yet so there's no way I could have lost it yet thank you very much!

If you're talking about Christianity I don't think I ever believed in it. Going to mass was just a boring thing we did on a Sunday morning that made me miss my cartoons... Thank feck my parents were cool with me not going once I explained I didn't believe in God when I was about 11/12.

Nowadays I go to midnight mass with my mother at Christmas and I'll go to a funeral or wedding in a church but I'd never receive communion as I feel it'd be very disrespectful to those around me. Can be a good place to zone out and do some thinking though...

Kazaanova · 23-08-2005 05:26PM

As a child I used to have a warm, kinda safe faith that there was somebody watching over all of us, guiding us and making good things happen sometime. And that when a loved one died they went somewhere, and when you die you went with them.

Then they started teaching us religion in school. I'll be an atheist untill I die. Even if I did believe in a god, I'd be an atheist just out of spite at the catholic religion. But honestly, I am an atheist, and its not out of spite.

Viscosity · 23-08-2005 05:27PM

I spoke to our local priest about people turning away from the church and he didn't seem to mind an awful lot. His take on it was that anyone who goes to mass nowadays actually wants to go and not just to keep up appearances.

I can see it leading to other problems with a lack of undenominational schools in most areas though.

larryone · 23-08-2005 05:28PM

I think I was about 17 when I stopped believing in organised religion. It just didnt seem to make any sense when I thought about it. But slowly over the past while, I've been thinking more and more about existance, and eventually got the opertunity to learn about pagan philosophies and ideas through some friends of mine. Any pagan stuff I've heard/read about just makes so much more sense to me than what the Catholic Church spout out...
I didnt lose religion - I dumped it.
I still have faith.

ando · 23-08-2005 05:29PM

I stopped going to church when I was about 16 or early 17, I would have stopped earlier if my parents didnt force me to go. It was the same with a few of my friends. But in all honesty, I believe when people get older they will flock back to the church and religion as their end of life is approaching. It stops a lot of older ppl going insane

frodi · 23-08-2005 05:37PM

Same as Larryone, I didn't lose my religion rather I dumped my mothers religion (my father didn't give a damm) when I was 14/15. Nowadays I only go to churches for other peoples funnerals or weddings. I would describe myself as a non-believer rather than aetheist.

larryone · 23-08-2005 05:40PM

I'll never flock back to the church. I reckon towards the end of my days, I'll be pretty much the same as I am now.

BossArky · 23-08-2005 05:53PM

Choose "16" but not sure exactly. I used to be an altar boy when I was in primary school, but just like Santa I found that I "grew out of it".

I would like to believe in something like a God or a Heaven but to my mind the facts on hand don't allow me to entertain the thoughts any longer.

I agree with Ando when he says that as people get older they flock back to the church. I can see the same thing happening with my parents. They aren't exactly going back to church now, but when watching "the passion of Christ" they were saying things like "oh how terrible", etc, etc... as if they believed it.

Life would be so pleasant if I could believe.

Nightwish · 23-08-2005 06:27PM

i lost mine at the age of 9 or 10, when my parents mixed religion marriage, was causing problems.
i was interested in paganism for about 6-7 years after that, now Im an agnostic

azezil · 23-08-2005 07:38PM

Gave up on religion at 17, was religious prior to that, stopped believing in a God at about 20.

the_syco · 23-08-2005 07:47PM

When I found out there was another religon, other than Catholics. If there was a god, he'd have killed all the other "false" gods.

I believe that there is only one god, but people believe in him in different ways. I'll go the Valhalla route, myself.

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