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What are the earliest thoughts you had about God?
I was taught to believe in "Allah" (similar to God I guess) and I thought Allah lived in a spaceship, like in Star Trek. I also thought that whenever there was thunder, Allah was bowling. My mother had a framed piece of embroidery/needle art, which was in an abstract sort of shape but it looked like a figure, and I thought that was Allah. I once also made half my class in school cry because I said, "I know Santa Claus doesn’t exist. He never comes to my house." When I was about 5 years old I would ask questions like, "If Allah made us then who made Allah?" as well as questions like, "If America is a free country then why are there jails?" (I really remember asking that, and my aunt told me not to talk like that in school.)
I never believed in the Tooth Fairy because I knew Santa and the Easter Bunny didn’t exist, but I did think Ursula (from the "The Little Mermaid") was in my closet and that Oogie Boogie (from "The Nightmare Before Christmas") was real, and I was afraid of them. Allah was something in between Ursula and Oogie Boogie for me.
What about you? I know this question belongs in religion & spirituality, but I don’t like that section.
I tried to ask Him if He was there or not, because I couldn’t bring myself to be a Christian no matter how hard I tried. I was never into any of this bullcrap questioning like "Why is there suffering in the world if you are a nice God?" because I’m not a tool. I did question why singing hymns in primary school would let me into Heaven, though.
I’ve given up trying and now call myself an "open atheist". An agnostic, you could say. I acknowledge that there is no way of knowing for certain and I don’t argue for or against the existence of God.
OMG Mabel we sang that too and I had exactly that thought! lol!
Benino | Jan 29, 2010
Why didn’t he shave?
wheels turning | Jan 29, 2010
My mother is a Christian. Therefore, I was taught everything that a normal day-to-day christian kid would be taught. I used to believe in Santa Claus too (I know, embarrassing now), but it was my dad who changed my perception of things pertaining to religion and customs.
Know It All | Jan 29, 2010
God (meaning a high level being that is the first cause) is the only logical choice that we exist
Darkking | Jan 29, 2010
At infant school we were taught the song "He’s got the whole world in his hands" and I imagined a man with a very kind and friendly face holding the earth in his cupped hands and looking down on it with his head to one side and smiling.
Then at the age of 10, I took it upon myself to go to sunday school. After a few lessons, my image of him changed, he was no longer holding the earth in his hands and looking down on it and smiling with his head to one side. He had a monstrous evil face, and he was looking down on the earth with clawed hands above it and there was lightning streaks shooting out from his fingers.
Mabel B | Jan 29, 2010
My mother was (and is) an atheist, and while my father was raised in all sorts of Christian religions (his family was Catholic at one point, then Mormon, and all sorts of other things), he was pretty solidly agnostic by the time I was born. So while my father maintained some sort of vague notion that my brother and I should be able to make our own decisions on religion as we grew up, and that perhaps we should be taken to various churches and other holy places of various religions and denominations to better make that choice, they never really bothered to do this much.
When I was a teenager, I regarded my atheism as something of a rare curiosity – I discovered that some of my peers were shocked and fascinated to learn that I simply did not believe any gods existed, so it became something of a point of pride, something that made me exotic and interesting.
My first real attempts to educate myself about religion started when I was around 20 years old, and I was taking various literature and other general education classes to finish off my Bachelor’s degrees, and discovered that a lot of classical literature (not to mention world politics) was difficult to understand without at least a working knowledge of major religions and their holy books. So I took a few classes and engaged on a lot of personal research on the world’s major religions, mostly focused around Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, though I also played with learning a little about Taoism, Sikhism, Confucianism, and Shintoism – all things that ultimately proved to be interesting and highly world-relevant mythologies spotted with philosophies ranging from the useful to the horrifying, but nothing that suggested any of the supernatural things they addressed were real.
CAustin II | Jan 29, 2010
Well up to this point you don’t know who Allah is? Allah means GOD in Arabic, so Allah is the God that all Christians, and Jewish people worship.
My first vision of Allah was that, he was a very big human form creature. Who was less harmless than
1,000 butterflies, and more kind than anyone. I visioned him looking down and seeing the world turning upside down. He would than shakes his head and whisper to all his loyal, yet kind, non violent followers.
"Very soon my children, very soon I will put you where you belong, and where you deserve to be"
a place of rich fruits, and gardens, rivers, beautiful landscapes, and rainbows over all waterfalls.
Allah to me was always GOD, the artist of the universe, and mastermind of "science, and magic".
Bobby.Y | Jan 29, 2010
The earliest specific thought I can come up with is one filled with confusion. I was about 6 years old. It was Easter and I couldn’t understand the connection between God, Jesus Christ, eggs and the Easter Bunny. I didn’t get it. I remember thinking that Peter Cottontail was a rabbit from Noah’s Ark. Ha. I can remember wondering about certain things but I can’t remember when.
My mother is Catholic but she didn’t push us very much. I do remember asking her about the Holy Trinity and she explained it to me by comparing it to Captain Planet. How each of them were their own being like earth, wind, fire and water but together they made Captain Planet. That really helped actually.
Gadgitgirlmbl | Jan 29, 2010
In grade two (I was 7yrs old, 1988 ) I asked the "religious education" (a pastor) teacher why is it that we aren’t allowed to believe in other religions or that can’t other religions be correct. He answered by saying all other religions are a lie and cannot be proven, he claimed the bible can be proven 100% (what a crock of $hit). Then I asked the same question you did- If God made everything, who made God?. The pastor said God is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. I don’t remember what I said next but I was sent to the principles office. I’m happy we don’t have forced religious education here in Australia anymore.
Jonty | Jan 29, 2010
Well Allah is God quite literally. All the great monotheistic religions pray to the God of Abraham.
I don’t really know but I was brought up Catholic and was taught he was a nice old man who would help you if you ask him.
I know what you mean about religion and spirituality I just ask a question with over fifty answers telling me I’d failed? I mean wtf?
Maxi R | Jan 29, 2010
The truth is I thought about the gender concepts with God.
Larry | Jan 29, 2010
I thought he looked like Odin the Norse god. I still do to some extant.
megatron1234 | Jan 29, 2010
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