[VIDEO] If You're Wondering About... Questioning Religion
Overview
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In This Episode
People discuss their personal experiences with religion, as well as the moment they questioned what they were taught.
Transcript
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How do you feel
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about me
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pulling myself closer to atheism?
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I think that your experiences
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have been really difficult and I think
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that some of them
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have occurred within the church.
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And I think that you have every right
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to stand in a position
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where you question people's motives.
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And
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to be honest, Evan,
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I think that the last probably
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four years of our lives,
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I think that you probably can tell
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that I've kind of
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done a little bit of soul searching too.
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Oh, what are you hesitant to tell me?
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Okay. - Oh.
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Seems like you've been
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thinking about this. Okay. - Nah.
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Just started to think. - I'm scared.
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I feel like
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we really tell each other everything.
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Yeah.
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Um...
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I've been dying for a long time, like-
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Like going back to the religion thing... Like,
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there's just like a lot of things
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that don't make sense to me, and
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I don't know,
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sometimes I don't feel justified.
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You know what I mean?
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Like, I guess, there's so many people
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that are telling you, like,
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you're so lucky to have a family
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that's like this.
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You're so lucky to do this and this.
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And, like, I feel it all the way.
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I'm incredibly lucky,
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but I don't feel like- This is going to
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sound horrible. But
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the way I was pushed into
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religion
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wasn't the way
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I felt like I should do this.
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Like, I don't like the practice- - Yeah, I agree. I wholeheartedly agree.
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of, like,
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the Middle Eastern practice of like
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your child is born to the religion.
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And if they even ask a question
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like it's not- it's not everyone.
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It's not,
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you know,
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enforced everywhere,
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but it's like a very
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common cultural thing
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to force your children in without them asking questions.
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I think it's a...
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Byproduct
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of being from any religious household.
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Yeah.
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You're kind of raised within the religion. - Yeah.
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I'm like- - I mean-
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I- you may felt differently, but like
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growing up, I always asked Mom,
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but why, but why, but why?
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And she would always answer.
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And she actually,
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from her own mouth,
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always told me "question everything".
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When was the
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last time you seriously questioned
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the way that you think
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and how did you grow from it?
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I kind of hit on this before,
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but I think that
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I seriously questioned myself
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two summers ago
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when I stepped down from the church
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and stopped preaching.
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And that
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came as a result of some pretty harsh
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racism and
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I grew up in an all white church.
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I grew up in an all white town.
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I thought
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that that place was a safe place
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to take my family and to raise my family.
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And I felt like the rug was jerked out
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from underneath of my feet
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when things were happening
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to you and your sister
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that I don't remember
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being a part of my childhood.
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And that was selfish on my part because
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the childhood I had
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was way different because of the color of skin I have.
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