I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.
It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.
I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.
My father was an agnostic.
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
I have to recognize that I am agnostic.
And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
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