Quote Originally Posted by Rowan View Post
I imagine that its painfully hard to reject a belief thats held by not only your immediate family, but relatives as well. Its hard to admit to yourself after being forced to church every sunday as a child, that you dont believe what you've been told for the past 15 years of your life. Imagine the amount of courage you would need to admit that you are the only one who doesnt share those beliefs held by your family and loved ones. Why should anyone have to feel that kind of pressure thats put upon them by a religious environment?
It's not as hard as you might think. Least it wasn't for me. But then I was never really committed to a religion to begin with. I was always right on the verge of rejecting what I'd been taught, because it never really clicked with me. I had pretty high standards for logic, even as a kid. I may not have known all the fancy Latin terms for fallacies back then, or the appropriate form of a valid deductive argument, but I'd always had a pretty strong sense for when somebody was using erroneous reasoning. Never really bothered me to fall outside of the family's beliefs. Whenever somebody tried to call me out for something I believed, I challenged them to prove me wrong. Thus far, none have succeeded and have been forced to accept that I don't agree with them.