I used to be fairly religious.
My family wasn't a religious family.
We do belong to the Church of England, but none of us practise it's faith.
But, I actually liked Church stories and things, and I chose to go to Sunday school, which I did for a couple of years.
It was interesting, but at times, a little weird. Because my family was never big on religion (We've all been christened and have religious funerals and weddings, but we don't go to church or discuss sins and faith and things), I found the people at my Sunday School to be very odd. I can't explain it, they just weirded me out.
Ultimately, I believe I was just there for the stories.
I like the teachings of the modern church, but I don't share it's belief.
When I left my home town of Oxford, my family moved to the south west country side, where we opened a small newagents for a few years.
And I seemed to lose whatever faith I did have in Christianity.
When I say I lost my faith, I don't mean it in a bad light, as in I noticed a great hipocrasy or whatnot, I just instead decided that it didn't make enough sense to me.
As I was growing up in schools (Both of my junior schools, one in Oxford, one in the country, were both Church of England schools, but my two secondary schools (I've moved to another school in the South West since I've been living here too) aren't.) I was taught science, and I greatly enjoyed it, and it made so much more sense to me.
Science seemed to grow and adapt it's views and would work hard to try and provide definite proof of it's theories, which I didn't see Christianity or any other religion as having done, so, Science just meant more to me.
I still to this day, though, enjoy Bible stories. I've always been fascinated in Myth and Legend. Whether that's Ancient Greek or Roman, or Biblical or Olde English, I like history, and that's what originally drew me into Christianity.
And I guess that it was that that my faith was based on, at it's core. Just an interest.
But I still respect christian teachings. There are things in there which are good ideas to live by.
The Ten Commandments aren't exactly bad ways of trying to live by. And I respect such attempts at teaching morals.
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