~Katja~
09-29-2008, 05:10 AM
It was discussed on the O&A show this morning and I just had seen the trailer this weekend.
It looks like an interesting documentary to me, granted it is probably easier for me to stomach than for people that grew up believing in God.
Yes, I was raised an atheist.
While the directors comment that raising children believing in god compares to child abuse is a bit over the top I have to say that give the choice to believe when I was older and not influenced by whatever my parents or grandparents believed in as I was younger has helped me have the needed distance to religion to look at it with a more unbiased view.
I envied a few kids that did believe in god and were part of a community that I never had. Later I realized that it was not their belief I envied but simply the safe place the church community seemed to provide for them. They always did "cool things" that us non-believers didn't have after the wall came down and the controlled communistic after school activities fell to the wayside.
When I was 17 I went to Israel on a trip from Tel Aviv to Tiberias all the way through Nazareth, Jerusalem, Bethlehem... I went to see all biblical sites and tried to get more into religion at that age, but my rational thinking overpowered any possibility of God's existence in my mind.
I am not trying to offend anyone who does believe, no matter what religion they chose, yet I cannot begin to believe myself, nobody and nothing has been able to convince me to do so.
Anyway, I am hoping to get somewhat of a discussion about the documentary as well as the issue itself going here, I definitely will try to see it and come back to discuss it here.
It looks like an interesting documentary to me, granted it is probably easier for me to stomach than for people that grew up believing in God.
Yes, I was raised an atheist.
While the directors comment that raising children believing in god compares to child abuse is a bit over the top I have to say that give the choice to believe when I was older and not influenced by whatever my parents or grandparents believed in as I was younger has helped me have the needed distance to religion to look at it with a more unbiased view.
I envied a few kids that did believe in god and were part of a community that I never had. Later I realized that it was not their belief I envied but simply the safe place the church community seemed to provide for them. They always did "cool things" that us non-believers didn't have after the wall came down and the controlled communistic after school activities fell to the wayside.
When I was 17 I went to Israel on a trip from Tel Aviv to Tiberias all the way through Nazareth, Jerusalem, Bethlehem... I went to see all biblical sites and tried to get more into religion at that age, but my rational thinking overpowered any possibility of God's existence in my mind.
I am not trying to offend anyone who does believe, no matter what religion they chose, yet I cannot begin to believe myself, nobody and nothing has been able to convince me to do so.
Anyway, I am hoping to get somewhat of a discussion about the documentary as well as the issue itself going here, I definitely will try to see it and come back to discuss it here.