Were you ever told something over and over as a kid, believed it to be true until you realized the opposite was actually closer to reality?

This could possibly insult people but it was the first thing that came to my mind: When I was a kid, I went to a Christian school and was thus surrounded by religion. Up until I was like 10 or something, I believed everything they told me. And they told me some scary things. I also read the bible a lot in school (because they made us) and took us around the church there. They showed us many statues, some where Jesus was tortured/killed and it really freaked me out. Freaked my sister out more so. Apparently, if you mentioned Easter to her, she'd freak the fuck out. But anyway, eventually, I stopped believing it all and became an atheist. I refused to go to church, refused to read the bible, etc. I was a troublemaker and a truant. Religion really wasn't (and still isn't) my thing.

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