Atheists, how old were you when you reached the “Age of Reason”?
This question is specifically targeting those who grew up in a family that was religious, or somewhat religious, and realized through time that something is seriously wrong with religion and its ideals can’t be true. I call this period the “Age of Reason” because it is a time when we truly realized how dumb and pointless religion really is, and I went through it when I was thirteen.
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Well, I reached it at age 5, but 13 is the usual age that children are thought to be capable of responsibility for decisions in the Southern Baptists church I was raised in.
Most of the kids I grew up with are still repeating their Sunday School lessons that we went over when they were six years old. The chuch does a very good job of discouraging any real thought on any issue.
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about 22
I'm kinda embarrassed to say, but it took me a very long time before I started really questioning things (I was raised in a religious home, attended church 2-3 times per week, etc.)
Though it took me several years and I can't remember the exact time I began questioning... I'd say my "age of reason" (when it finally hit me like a ton of bricks, that is) was 27.
I think I seriously started questioning the existence of God at age 16, and suppressed my doubts. Then they resurfaced about a year later, and that time it took.
But even at the age of 6 I found the idea of an eternal afterlife very troubling.
When I was 14, right after the death of my step-mother. Everyone said she was in a better place but, I saw her be buried in the ground. Now she is rotting down there.
I don't think religion is pointless, but I think that religion and God was made up because people are afraid of dieing.