"Turning away from god"

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At 11:10 PM 6/11/99 -0700, Farrell Till wrote:
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>STB

>> But nothing has convinced me to turn away from God yet?  What turned you?

>>Truthfully.

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>TILL

>Well, I had a horrible experience that made me hate God, and so that is why

>I turned from him.  That's what you want me to say, isn't it?  

>


Ed

I think, however, that you and many of the list members are not typical of
skeptics or freethinkers.  As you know, I'm active in the Campus
Freethought Alliance and other organizations, and it is my experience that
the significant majority of nontheists were never Christians in the first
place. (I use nontheistic rather loosely here, as there are nontheistic
Christians as well, you know.) It seems that generally one has to be either
indoctrinated before one learns to think critically, or one has to become
indoctrinated at a time of personal crisis or trauma to embrace a theistic
thought system.  

It would be very difficult and take real courage to break out of a
childhood indoctrination, which is no doubt why so few people do it.  My
hat's off to you and people like you.

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