A youth without God

[MortimerB]

Hey everyone!

Just finished reading an old anti-nazi book called "Jugend ohne Gott", "En gudløs ungdom" in Danish and "A youth without God" in English.

It made me wonder, if people - in puberty - are as unsure of their religion or life philosophy as they are of - for example - their sexuality.

I've always been an agnostic atheist with a faint hope of an afterlife but I do not believe in a celestial or divine being. And I've discovered many of my mates have different views upon God and life as a whole!

Here are the questions:

Have you ever been in doubt or been "challenged" at your belief during puberty?
And if so, by who?

Cheers, everybody. :D

(Read the forum rules just to check, as the strange lack of religious discussion concerned me. There's no rules against a post like this, is there?)

[Golfboy36]

Not at all

[AlexOnToast]

Well I have never in my life been part of any religion or anything. So no.

[Elysium]

No, there are no rules against a post like this as long as things stay civil and appropriate, yadda yadda.

Anyhow, I was more or less "religious" before puberty. I've always been Jewish and I never thought to question the idea of God or whatnot, but I'd always been confused by the contradiction of science vs. religion. I always believed in science first and foremost, but I never understood how I was supposed to believe in religion additionally. Come puberty and a traumatic experience later, I lost whatever meager faith I'd had in any type of spirituality. Nobody had much to do at all with the transition, though as a child my parents made it a point to educate me about Judaism (though, I note now, they never tried to convince me to believe in it).

[Ben101]

I was christened when I was a baby, But as far as I am concerned I am a atheist, I do not believe in any of it.

[DarkHorse4eva]

I'm baptized and such, but I'm not religious. So no, I haven't had that problem

[jenny2234]

I never grew up religious.

[Kacey]

i come from a christian (not insanely christian though) family, but never really had a religion... now whenever people ask me which god i believe in, i say Cthulu. it is esier that way.
I am sure of my "religion" but just dont have one...

[Miserabilia]

When I was really young I thought religion was all pretty, but I never actually beleived anything, and once I started learning and thinking more I became more and more sure that I did not beleive in anything supernatural.

[Gamma Male]

I stopped believing in religion at around age 10, but it had never really made any sense to me.

[nklarke]

I'm a Jew, and not, to be honest nothing has changed so far.

[ksdnfkfr]

Not religious.

[NeuroTiger]

I'm comfortable with my religion.

[Hermes96]

i used to be really relgiouse but over the years i have become some what less religiouse not that i don't belive in a God god or gods i do it just i wonder how we are meant to know what God , god or gods are real and if we are going by the many holly books ive read over the last few years i strugal to under stand how a god can be all loving yet hate Homosexuals or send you to hell for eating a prawn and bacon sandwhich whilst getting a tatto

[Karkat]

I've never been substantially religious all my life. I believed in God mostly, minus a brief lapse where I thought I was atheist. But my parents are so hypocritical and they make me resent religion, but I wanted to make sure that in the long run, my views weren't slighted by them. I more or less have the same view, I'm just trying to avoid religion until I can get back on my feet again.

[grossgod11]

I was never raised a religion, sure we had Christmas and Easter dinner and what not but God was never the meaning to me, and thus I'm an atheist but I respect all religions and think they are neat.

[PatrickV]

Yes I have been challenged, and the answer is. "We don't know"

[Lovecraft]

Just as godless as I was when I was born.

I did go through a period of about two weeks when I decided I was a pagan and prayed to the Celtic god Macha of violence and physical force, but I don't know if that counts.

[SadLove]

Hey everyone!

Just finished reading an old anti-nazi book called "Jugend ohne Gott", "En gudløs ungdom" in Danish and "A youth without God" in English.

It made me wonder, if people - in puberty - are as unsure of their religion or life philosophy as they are of - for example - their sexuality.

I've always been an agnostic atheist with a faint hope of an afterlife but I do not believe in a celestial or divine being. And I've discovered many of my mates have different views upon God and life as a whole!

Here are the questions:

Have you ever been in doubt or been "challenged" at your belief during puberty?
And if so, by who?

Cheers, everybody. :D

(Read the forum rules just to check, as the strange lack of religious discussion concerned me. There's no rules against a post like this, is there?)

Alot of people challenge my faith, "If you are a christian, why do you look at girls and watch porn?" My response "I'm human, I make mistakes, I sin, I can't help it. It just happens" This girl who wanted to have sex with me, which I denied (WOW RIGHT) started calling me gay and what not, and I told her, This is one thing I cannot do. Even when I do sin, if I can help it, I won't.

[kanine]

Honestly, I used to be a HUGE christian. But, as the years went by and I entered puberty, I just started to realize that it caused so much hate in the world. The message of the bible was supposed to be one of love and peace and happiness. But people have bent and perverted it so much that I turned away from what I was raised to believe my entire life. I went on a religious journey of sorts really. I've studied paganism and thought I liked it, but it all just seemed like a fairytale (pardon me if that was offensive as I don't mean to be.) And honestly, now that I've thought on this for five years, I've realized that I lean more towards Agnostic Fatalism. I believe that everyone has a pre-determined path and that their may be a higher being watching over us, however I do not know. And I will not, under any circumstances, hate someone because someones faith tells me they are evil.

[Shado99]

nope

[backjruton]

I was christened and that doesn't change my mind at all. It's just like a stupid placebo effect? Me and religion are not connected in the slightest, and even though my dad says he believes in some of it he told me he's doubting it too. So I've never questioned my religion either :D

[JamesSuperBoy]

Not me - but as puberty is a huge part of growing up - and maturity I do think many will be forming thier own opinions or at least questioning what they are taught or raised to believe say by thier parents or a religious organisation perhaps a church or faith based school -

[Snydergate]

I have never doubted my religion, actually through my teen years my belief only grew stronger