In one form or another, people are going to have idols

I think faith is firmly instilled in childhood. If the parents fail to raise a child to be faithful, they will end up secular.

I was never baptized because my parents wanted me to "decide for myself"

didn't work

I was raised Catholic but my parents were never serious about it

I tried pretty desperately to be Christian

even attempted to dabble in paganism for a bit

My mom started acting religious when I was a lot older but it came off as really fake

My parents never forced anything on me...i went to church with friends for many years (because i had to for sleepovers), but the Old Gods called to me

but if you are not raised with some kind of faith, it is incredibly hard to become faithful in adulthood unless you undergo a traumatic personal experience imo

yeah, the fear of death will certainly put the "fear of God" in you literally

I've gone to a Pentacostal church a few times just because I wanted to hang out with friends

It was really cool because it was entirely white

All Slavs

@Kingfish do you believe good objectively exists and that we have the free will to choose it? Finally believing that was the turn key that changed me from atheist/agnostic to believing there was *something* out there.

i'm more on the "people *choose* to be good" side.

evil is so much easier. which is why truly good people are hard to find

@Asatru Artist - MD true

I grew up "idolizing" heroes from European history since I always loved history. So now I'm just kind of stuck with a spiritual connection yo my nibba Caesar 🙃

@ThisIsChris thats the thing, because I don't have a deep spiritual basis for my morality I really don't know tbh

at least you didn't grow up idolizing sportsball players

I do that now

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>sportsball

Especially the black ones!

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Oh sorry, I mean "meds"

no shame

are there anything but black sportsballers now @ThisIsChris ? 🤔

yes

they are even infecting Hockey now <:sad:366743316475281408>

Hockey

^

there are a lot of white football players lmao

i know, it was a joke <:really:453005408064241674>

best QB of all time is huwhite...

take your pick on who i'm talking about <:teehee:381917632359563264>

pretty much every QB is white

I'm not gonna get into this meme for the thousandth time but yeah I believe you can be right wing like us and still enjoy watching your home team

not anymore...they are getting more and more non-white in that position too

At least in hockey they aren't anywhere close to their percentage of the population