Caveat emptor: I understand that this is a touchy subject for some. Well, tough luck, to those people. If you want to respond, please do so in a civil manner or else your messages will go the way of the dodo. I welcome all arguments as long as they don’t devolve into personal attacks, logical fallacies and unsubstantiated opinions.
When I was 14 or so, I had an epiphany. “Wow, everything I knew about religion sounds so incredibly stupid”. It progressively got worse: I started questioning everything about it. Suddenly, I was demanding proof about things I was taking for granted in the past, ending up in heated arguments with the majority of my environment.
The first real argument about Christianity’s teachings came a few years before that time, with my father criticizing parts from my theology high school book (a mandatory course). I realized that I didn’t really have any serious arguments to counter his. I remember vaguely that the only argument I could offer was that “religion isn’t bad as long as it remains personal”.
My father didn’t pursue the argument further. But the “damage” was done; slowly but steadily I started questioning things I was taking for granted, leading me not only to the epiphany I mention in the beginning but to a complete transformation on the way I handled unsupported and/or obvious claims too.
