I was indoctrinated into Christianity at a very young age, when I did not have my critical thinking skills and was very susceptible to parental influence.
At the age of sixteen, I easily shed Christianity. But now, talking to other friends (listening to these people, I fear for their sanity; read my other thread in this forum, these people's beliefs are quite disturbing) who are Christian and with this damn voice in the back of my head telling me the opposite of everything I believe, I catch myself thinking things like "the lord works in mysterious ways" whenever disaster happens, like I used to. I shake it off as irrational though. But it's like Christianity has an emotional grip, as opposed to an intellectual grip, over me.
Do any other atheists who used to be Christian have this and how do you shed it? This has convinced me all the more that Christianity is a dirty virus and it's disgusting watching the young be indoctrinated by their parents, who in turn were indoctrinated and therefore think that it's the "right thing to do".
[This message has been edited by Raw_Power (edited 12-11-2006).]
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