I will always remember this one significant memory because it has made me who I am today. It shaped and sculpted me. I don’t usually care to remember memories unless those memories will benefit me in some way. In this case, it does. Well, within that significant memory there are several other memories that I have created related to the significant memory along the line, along my life span. All these memories are attached but before those memories can even be created, there has to some source that started all those little memories.
It all started when I was surrounded with religion ever since I was a tiny person. My father and mother and family are Pentecostal. I was Pentecostal or that’s what my family proudly said I was for 12 years of my …show more content…
7 years ago, and a year from when I got baptized, I was in my parent’s living room on their computer, I watched a video on YouTube about how the creator of this video turned from Christian to Atheist. At that moment I realized that religion was not making me happy and that this was a waste of time. I started researching the facts to support this person’s view of Christianity and the more I found evidence to support this person’s belief of why he doesn’t believe in Christianity anymore I thought to myself, “What’s the point of continuing to pretend to myself that this is what I really want”? Then I asked myself all the questions what we once thought, like, “Is there really a God”? Who made us”? What happens to us when we die”? These feelings were so overwhelming and so much to handle that I broke down. I was so heartbroken knowing that I was lied to all my life that this religion was the way to Salvation. It now all made sense now why I never really fit in with the rest of my church. I never really felt the presence and love of God as my church claimed to feel. I just thought it would come naturally. Then it occurred to me, “What would my parents think about me now”? They are strictly religious so they cannot know about my conversion to atheism. So I decided to keep this secret to myself. That day that I experienced that this religion was false to me, it helped me convert to atheism and Darwinism. If it weren’t for that video, without it I would have still have been a Pentecostal until this day so I give thanks to the creator of that
It all started when I was surrounded with religion ever since I was a tiny person. My father and mother and family are Pentecostal. I was Pentecostal or that’s what my family proudly said I was for 12 years of my …show more content…
7 years ago, and a year from when I got baptized, I was in my parent’s living room on their computer, I watched a video on YouTube about how the creator of this video turned from Christian to Atheist. At that moment I realized that religion was not making me happy and that this was a waste of time. I started researching the facts to support this person’s view of Christianity and the more I found evidence to support this person’s belief of why he doesn’t believe in Christianity anymore I thought to myself, “What’s the point of continuing to pretend to myself that this is what I really want”? Then I asked myself all the questions what we once thought, like, “Is there really a God”? Who made us”? What happens to us when we die”? These feelings were so overwhelming and so much to handle that I broke down. I was so heartbroken knowing that I was lied to all my life that this religion was the way to Salvation. It now all made sense now why I never really fit in with the rest of my church. I never really felt the presence and love of God as my church claimed to feel. I just thought it would come naturally. Then it occurred to me, “What would my parents think about me now”? They are strictly religious so they cannot know about my conversion to atheism. So I decided to keep this secret to myself. That day that I experienced that this religion was false to me, it helped me convert to atheism and Darwinism. If it weren’t for that video, without it I would have still have been a Pentecostal until this day so I give thanks to the creator of that