Encounters with different beliefs when you were a kid

[rocala]

I know. My mum despaired of me ever reading .

Luckily I was always encouraged to read and I took to it like a duck to water.. The trouble was that to get to the library, you had to cross a very busy main road. This was forbidden in my early childhood. Quite quickly we were getting letters demanding the books back. My grandmother too busy and my mother too exhausted for that ten-minute walk.

My infant school teacher was very encouraging, I recall the first book that I ever read.

Red Tag Comes Back

Good story of a boy who adopts a salmon. Read about the…

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Nature has always been important to me, and is a part of my spirituality.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Books were always a delight, Bhagawat Purana in particular (I am a fast and sort of non-stop reader).
A 1940 edition (2 years before my birth) is still with me in fairly good condition. Read Pelican books on history.
I thank my deceased father for making these available to me.
Books gave me a lot of information, even Lolita and Sade (information of a different kind).

 

[TheLightWithin]

My first introduction to other-than Catholic was reading Greeks myths as a kid, then The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley, collected tales in the Pan Book of Horror Stories series.

Absolute heaven. A book on the Greek myths was the 2nd book that I took out when I joined the children's library.

The reading group I was in in 2nd grade used Greek and/or Roman mythology as the subject matter.
It was fun and interesting material. Lucky too, as later on, I encountered those mythologies only in passing until college - and even then only because I took a Latin class, not because any classics were required.

 

[TheLightWithin]

The rest, as they say, was history (only it wasn't, it was mythology).

Yet mythology is so much a part of our history

 

[TheLightWithin]

I'm sad for this child. Searching for truth.. faith enough to believe with no adult to take her by the hand to mentor her.

Reviewing this while searching for something else - but I had another thought.
There are so, SO many ways in which I could have used more adult mentoring on pragmatic life skills.
But it occurs to me how incredibly problematic it could have been if someone had tried to step in and teach me any kind of catechism.

 

[TheLightWithin]

Books were always a delight, Bhagawat Purana in particular (I am a fast and sort of non-stop reader).
A 1940 edition (2 years before my birth) is still with me in fairly good condition. Read Pelican books on history.
I thank my deceased father for making these available to me.
Books gave me a lot of information, even Lolita and Sade (information of a different kind).

I read a lot too, often had little else to do, but even if I did, reading was often a first choice.
I don't remember if it was very easy to find material on other religions. I think once I was a teenager I tried. I found the Book of Mormon in the library.
But it's also possible that I simply would not have understood enough context till later, and would have found other religions to be too far out of my experience to delve into.

 

[Thomas]

Yet mythology is so much a part of our history

I'd say psychological insight into our history.

 

[Thomas]

It seems to me the first rule of catechetics is to encourage a sense of wonder – I was going to say 'instill', but I think all kids have that naturally, unless/until traumatised.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Yet mythology is so much a part of our history

Mythology is alive and still controls our actions. We get cues from what we are told or have read since childhood.