<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(kristleh &#064; May 18 2006, 10&#58;46 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
It was not as if I woke up yesterday with these ideas suddenly popping in my mind. To make it all short, do not underestimate teenagers or young adult. And more importantly, people should respect other&#39;s beliefs especially with matters regarding religion and not try to force whatever their idealogies as the absolute truth.
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I started to doubt &#39;the word&#39; when I was about ten years old, so it was not a teenage non conformity deal for me.

When they teach you Religious Instruction, about creating the world, Adam and Eve, breaking bread, parting the waters, the ark and all in one lesson, then basically tell you it is rubbish in the next lesson, such as physics, biology and history, what is a person supposed to believe?

My complaints fell on deaf ears in those days, and requesting excemption from religious brain washing was punished by extra math lessons and suchforth.

Some people just don&#39;t want to hear the truth. Some are scared to admit the truth. Others just need to believe in something to get by from day to day. Really, if you have no promised &#39;heaven&#39; to go to when you die, what else is there in some peoples miserable and directionless lives to keep them going?