https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151021183921AAQf8T7&sort=O
My 2nd attempt:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20151022035324AA16XAp&sort=N
Normal people (aka atheists), was it easy or difficult for you to throw out the religious brainwashing?
Update: I asked this question yesterday but for some strange reason the entire thing was vaporized.
Update 2: Normal: free from any mental disorder; sane
I wrote my own answer:
There have been some complaints about the word normal. Here is the dictionary definition:
Normal: free from any mental disorder; sane.
Theism and agnosticism are mental disorders. Atheism is normal.
There have been many best answers. Thanks everyone for your stories. I would like to tell my story. Here it is.
I endured 8 years of intense religious brainwashing in a Catholic school, 1st grade thru 8th grade.
When I was 18 In high school my girlfriend asked me "Why do you go to church?" The question shocked me because nobody had ever asked that question. I was speechless. I could not say anything. She changed the subject and that was the end of that.
A few months later our Pastor, two Sundays in a row, spent the entire sermon explaining why it was important for us to donate more cash so he could send it to the very wealthy Vatican. That's when I realized the Catholic Church is a business and the customers are suckers. That was the last time I went to church.
Because the brainwashing was for 8 years, it took me a long time to completely throw out the ridiculous god fantasy. Today I get it. God is just another word for magic. Magic is not real therefore magical beings are impossible.
I wrote my own answer:
There have been some complaints about the word normal. Here is the dictionary definition:
Normal: free from any mental disorder; sane.
Theism and agnosticism are mental disorders. Atheism is normal.
There have been many best answers. Thanks everyone for your stories. I would like to tell my story. Here it is.
I endured 8 years of intense religious brainwashing in a Catholic school, 1st grade thru 8th grade.
When I was 18 In high school my girlfriend asked me "Why do you go to church?" The question shocked me because nobody had ever asked that question. I was speechless. I could not say anything. She changed the subject and that was the end of that.
A few months later our Pastor, two Sundays in a row, spent the entire sermon explaining why it was important for us to donate more cash so he could send it to the very wealthy Vatican. That's when I realized the Catholic Church is a business and the customers are suckers. That was the last time I went to church.
Because the brainwashing was for 8 years, it took me a long time to completely throw out the ridiculous god fantasy. Today I get it. God is just another word for magic. Magic is not real therefore magical beings are impossible.
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