Share your personal journey of faith, skepticism, or atheism, why you believe in God or trust in science instead. This is a place for SUPPORT and AGREEMENT only, not a place to tell someone their experience and feelings are wrong, or why we disagree with them.
Ivy wrote:i don't think I can pick just one. Leaving was such a long, drawn out process for me.
Moogy, I think I started to leave emotionally when I was in my early teens, and was finally
emotionally out in my late fifties.
Same here. I picked the 30-39 range because I began physically walking away when I was 30 (and it took a couple of years to get out completely), but I had checked out mentally years before that. And truth be told, I had doubts about the church all through my childhood and teenage years. Somehow, the brainwashing never "took" 100%. Maybe 95%.