If you are a beleiver in a deity...

Did you have it all sorted before the age of 8?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 26.5%
  • No - I sorted it in my teems

    Votes: 7 20.6%
  • No - I sorted it all in my twenties

    Votes: 2 5.9%
  • Nope - thirties for me

    Votes: 2 5.9%
  • I'm a slow learner - forties

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Don't judge me - fifties

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Call me fickle - sixties

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Actually it's still a work in progress

    Votes: 14 41.2%

  • Total voters
    34
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Rapples

Guru
Location
Wixamtree
I'm not eligible to vote, but I think probably around 8 would be when. I recall going to Sunday School, and not believing it, and questioning mother why she insisted we go. If fits in nicely with the age we moved to Potton. Not a religious family, but mater probably does believe, pater doesn't.
 

ComedyPilot

Secret Lemonade Drinker
Strikes me as strange that people are expected to believe in anything......

And as for having it all 'sussed' by the age of 8, how can you ever 'suss' something that is a work of fiction? How can you ever understand a book that someone wrote 2000 years ago, has been rewritten god knows (sic) how many times since then and translated too?

Sun rising, sun setting, lunar effect on tides and the like I understand. On-board telemetry for motorcycles on track days I understand. Gravity I understand. The principles of flight are clear to me, as is the minor petatonic scale.

But a man and a woman in a garden suddenly feeling shame about their nakedness, but their kids sleep with each other (and we are their descendants)?

A burning bush, feeding the 5000 (or however many), parting the sea....? (Lindisfarne anyone?)

Too many unanswered questions for my liking.

Fine, if someone beleives (sic Aperitif) that's up to them and I am more than happy for them to go about it peacefully, but a donkey ride to Jerusalem 2000 years ago has as much draw to me as Edmund and his siblings travelling to Narnia through the wardrobe.
 

Gary E

Veteran
Location
Hampshire
...or a psalm pilot :smile:
 

swansonj

Guru
?.. and I've just come back from church it's Palm Sunday if you didn't know.
The donkey our church borrowed refused to go into church this morning. It stuck its hooves down on the steps to the west door and just stood there staring in but not budging and we all had to squeeze past it.
 

Shut Up Legs

Down Under Member
The closest I get to deities is praying to Saint Sheldon every time I try a maintenance job I haven't tried before.
 

colly

Re member eR
Location
Leeds
I did when I was a kid, simply because it seemed the thing to do. As I got older and into my early teens and learned about other religions, past and present, it seemed to me that what you believed in was just a matter of when and where you were born.
5000 years ago and living in what we now call Egypt you might well think the Sun God was the one to worship.
2000 years ago born here you might well be a Druid
2000 years ago born a Roman citizen you would most likely be offering tributes to any number of Roman Gods
200 years ago born in Italy probably a Christian.

It seemed to me that they all thought that they had the ''one true'' religion. It also struck me that they couldn't all be right so were probably all wrong. I was 13 when I came to that conclusion and it still seems right to me.
So now I don't believe in a deity. There might well be more to life than we immediately perceive so I guess that would make me agnostic.

As ComedyPilot says.............'too many unanswered questions' to be sure about anything.
 
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