Posted by fachad on July 11, 2002, at 0:04:52
In reply to loss of faith, posted by Dave1 on July 10, 2002, at 14:38:34
I was raised a devout fundamentalist Baptist. I believed it all thru childhood and into adolescence.
Around age 17 or 18 I began reading philosophy and developing critical thinking skills and cultivating rationality. This resulted in my rapidly becoming an agnostic/atheist.
I have cultivated spirituality since that time, but I could never go back to a literal belief in a personal God or in the historicized myths that form the core beliefs of the world's major religions.
> Has anyone had a strong faith when they were a teenager and now as an adult has virtually no faith?
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> Dave
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