Intro to Faith

If faith is forced on a child, taking them to Church every week, making them read the Bible, or sending them to religious school without giving them a choice, they will grow up rejecting that religion. I found in my research that there are many people who grew up with parents forcing religion down their throats don’t want to be a part of the religion now that they have a choice to be or not. I grew up in a very Catholic family and every week we went to Church. My mom sent me to Bible School and Bible Study during the summer. As I started to get older I found that going to Church twice a week for Bible School and Church was a burden and that I would much rather be at home. I could recite for anyone the Our Father, Hail Mary, Gloria, Nicene Creed, and about fifty Church songs. With all this knowledge stuffed in my head from about sixteen years of Church-going I feel like it is just taking up space at this point. I started to make excuses to got go to Church, even volunteering at our local Petsmart with my neighbor to clean cat’s cages. Right before I was confirmed I told my mom that I didn’t believe in God anymore. She didn’t freak out but she did still make me get Confirmed, I did it for her but I found it to be very hypocritical. Ever since my mom has only really made me go on Christmas and Easter, though she still goes every week. I believe that if my mother hadn’t made me go to Church

This first quote I found on a University’s website on how to raise children~

“Sometimes—because we truly want what’s best for our kids—we begin to demand that a child or teen go to church or participate in church activities. Often these demands seem to alienate children even further from religious activity.” –A report out of Brigham Young University

The second quote is from a blog at radicalleft.net. The writer grew up Christian and was conformed to hate it soon after his 16^th birthday.

“Think sex and drugs destroy America?
Try naive chastity. Oh, and "Purity Balls"
You should probably fall to your knees right
this minute and thank a merciful
and lubricious and happily polymorphous sex God
that you don't know what they are

At some point the daughter stands up,
her pale arms wrapped around her daddy,
and reads aloud a formal pledge that she will
remain forever pure and virginal and sex-free
until she is handed over, by her dad
(who is actually called the "high priest" of the home),
like some sort of sad hymenic gift,
to her husband, who will receive her like
the sanitized and overprotected and
libidinously inept servant she so very much is
Praise!” –Max Blunt

This isn’t something that has started just recently. This passage is a blog of a former altar boy who discusses why he is no longer with the faith.

http://www.norcalblogs.com/outsidebox/2007/07/on_growing_up_catholic.html

Here is a fun video of a radical Christan woman who also is one of 'God's Warrior's'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjl54v1irbs