I have 10 years of perfect attendance pins for sunday school, read the bible in 3 different translations (cover to cover), accepted jesus christ as my lord and savior in a conversion experience at 16, got about 800 hours of catechism class in grade school, etc. etc. etc.
Trust me, you can shed any and all of the notions they drill into you. Since becoming a non-christian, I've faced death very 'up close & personal', and without even so much as a nagging curiosity about there being any validity in my former religion. It does take time to deprogram all that brainwashing though.
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‘Εκατερινη γνῶθι σεαυτόν Audaces fortuna iuvat
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