Were You Ever a Fundie?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-04-21 04:49pm

Nope, always had my brain firmly connected to the rest of my body.

I did believe in God and all that stuff when I was still Christian, but that was for show so I could get into a C of E primary school and then get confirmed to go to a grammar school.

KrauserKrauser · Post by **KrauserKrauser** » 2004-04-21 05:35pm

Gotta say that I am religious but have always had questions and problems with the acutal implemntation of christianity. So I answered as such.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-04-21 07:43pm

I was a fucking loon

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-04-21 07:49pm

I'm a confirmed Catholic, and go to a Catholic school, but I'm an atheist now. I go to the Catholic school because it's literally 300 metres from my front door, and the Public school is across town. Hurrah for convenience!

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-04-21 07:50pm

No, never. Even when I was little and a good Christian child, I didn't take it literally. I believed the Flood story because I didn't know better, etc, but I believed evolution was true, and that the universe was old, etc.

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2004-04-21 08:36pm

I was always religious (more than my parents at one point) but never really frenatical. aka I was also very much into Astronomy, was generally on top of all the latest theorys through highschool. etc. so was never a true fundie.

Then I met This wonderful girl who is by the way, doing a Science degree (major Physics) at the Uni of Melbourne, and she helped open my mind a whole lot. Before I was more like a scientific minded Christian with quite rigid Christian values. Since getting to know her, my Christian values have been somewhat stripped down to bare minimum

Probably has something to do with her open mindedness about things like, Sex, Nutidy and stuff.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-04-21 08:39pm

Not at all, I've believed from an early age that religion is tosh. It's so obviously made by men to control men I often giggle randomly about it. I even read the bible recently (I lie, I'm 3 quarters into the old testemant) and it is confirming everything I already believed, it's a good laugh.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-04-21 09:25pm

I've never been religious, never believed in gods, and I've only been to one church service (not counting weddings).

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2004-04-21 09:36pm

The thing that disturbs me is that often Me, little Christian boy, knew more about science than alot of the self-proclaimed "Athiests".

I swear there's athiests out there that think the Sun is the centre of the Universe, or even more sad, that the sun goes around the earth once every 24 hours.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-04-21 09:37pm

jenat-lai wrote:The thing that disturbs me is that often Me, little Christian boy, knew more about science than alot of the self-proclaimed "Athiests".

I swear there's athiests out there that think the Sun is the centre of the Universe, or even more sad, that the sun goes around the earth once every 24 hours.

Hmm, so just because someone doesn't believe in god/religion they must automatically know science?

jenat-lai · Post by **jenat-lai** » 2004-04-21 09:39pm

They know no God.
They know no science.

They know nothing.

And the scariest thing?

They get to vote.

*edit*
... and BREED!

*more edit*
Jon! I love your Sig!

dworkin · Post by **dworkin** » 2004-04-21 10:07pm

Been there, done that, but somehow missed out on the T-Shirt.
Mabye because I was what used to be described as a Puritan and we Puritans didn't 'need no stinkin badges'.

I spent my first time at university disturbing people. I studied evolutionary science, helped run several clubs including one which drank beer and one which read bibles. I helped build a church and went to SF conventions.

My christian experience was something that added to and enhanced my life rather than replacing/supplanting it. This, apparently caused problems with everyone who thought it had to be the other way arround. And although it is behind me now, I do not regret it.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-04-21 10:10pm

I used to be religous, but not fanatical, as I was raised in a moderate Catholic household, and never bought into things like young-earth Creationism or a great flood, but my views changed a little over the past year or two. I'm more of a Deist now.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2004-04-21 10:10pm

Used to be a fundie, up until my theology professors straightened me out. Nothing like a member of the Board of Ministry (people who approve ministers) talking about enjoying lesbianism because everyone should appreciate the female form. I'm still a Christian (though most fundies would freak out if I tried to explain my beliefs), but a very liberal one. I was rooting for Damman in her case out west, and I'm part of the Reconciling Methodist Network (we want to have LGBTs be fully allowed as ministers; currently, they're not quite allowed under the laws of the church).

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-04-21 10:28pm

I was a fundie until about a year ago, when I found the Skeptic's Annotated Bible online, which at first made me angry. But over time, it began to make more sense and my faith weakened until I was no longer a fundie. But that was not the end of it. The rift between my ideals and those of fundimentalist Christianity continued to widen until fall of last year, when I realized I would actually be considered an agnostic.
Earlier this year I took the final step, and now consider myself an atheist...

In retrospect, my de-conversion seemed almost...easy compared with the stories of other former fundies (especially ones, like me, who were raised as such from birth). Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that nobody else (ouside this board) even knows of my de-conversion...

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2004-04-21 10:44pm

Actually, I still like most of the SAB, although some of it's in error (or more appropriately, they follow the fundamentalist doctrine of interpreting everything, ignoring the rabbinical tendency towards hyperbole for purposes of illustration). I actually use it sometimes for cross-referencing verses when I'm doing research, although I'll then switch over to my NRSV for the actual verses themselves, as that's the best translation from the Hebrew and Greek.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2004-04-21 10:44pm

Robert Treder wrote:I've never been religious, never believed in gods, and I've only been to one church service (not counting weddings).

ditto minus the church service part. Although it would be cool to have Greco-Roman style gods running around.

dworkin · Post by **dworkin** » 2004-04-21 10:52pm

Matt Huang wrote:Although it would be cool to have Greco-Roman style gods running around.

Those fucktards? Although they'ld be easy to control. Just throw them enough booze, drugs and hookers at em and they'ld be no trouble at all.

"I AM ZEUS! COWER BEFORE ME MORTAL!"

"Certainly sir. Welcome to Daphne's. Would sir prefer the usual or prehaps another girl? Cash, cheque or credit?"

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-04-21 10:52pm

I started questioning my Catholic upbringing when I was about six, so I wouldn't exactly say I'm religious, no.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-04-21 11:12pm

I used to be "child religious", basically meaning I just accepted there was a dude in the sky who cared about us and such.

I went to a hardcore Christian school, I started to question it.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2004-04-21 11:14pm

Gandalf wrote:I used to be "child religious", basically meaning I just accepted there was a dude in the sky who cared about us and such.

Hmmn, Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleets?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-04-21 11:30pm

Matt Huang wrote:
Gandalf wrote:I used to be "child religious", basically meaning I just accepted there was a dude in the sky who cared about us and such.
Hmmn, Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleets?

Nope, Nick Fury of SHIELD.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2004-04-21 11:38pm

Gandalf wrote:
Matt Huang wrote:
Gandalf wrote:I used to be "child religious", basically meaning I just accepted there was a dude in the sky who cared about us and such.
Hmmn, Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard Fleets?
Nope, Nick Fury of SHIELD.

Superman & the rest of the JLA.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-04-22 04:03am

Born and raised atheist to atheist principles (i.e. actual morals)

I'm a fundy atheist :p

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-04-22 08:26am

Well, I use to refuse to eat chicken because of something that was written in Exodus. Of course, I was 5 or 6 back then...

Innerbrat wrote:Born and raised atheist to atheist principles (i.e. actual morals)

Atheism, though compatible with morality, does not necessarily confer it - just ask the nearest Nihilist.

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