Christians: How many of you went to a Christian school/college?

Question

I'm only asking because most people I know who either attended a Christian school as a child/teenager, or who studied theology have ended up not being Christian. I'm just wondering how many of you actually went to Christian school and remained a Christian.

Answer 1

i didn't. i guess much better if you are spiritually guided by the holy spirit when you study God's words.. there's no better teacher than Holy Spirit coming from Jesus Christ.. you can ask wisdom from Him. (James 1:5)

Answer 2

4 years of a Christian High School and 4 years of a Christian College, plus an additional 4 years for my seminary work.  

Answer 3

Christian Elementary up to 9th grade, then Public school.

Still Catholic

Answer 4

I went to a Christian college & am still a Christian. (20 years)

Answer 5

I went to Catholic school my first 6 years, then public after that, but attended religion classes for a couple of years after leaving private school.  I was also a novice in a Catholic Sisterhood for 2 years.  I have since left the church and no longer consider myself Christian in any form.

Answer 6

I attended Christian schools all the way up through the college level, have studied apologetics and debated extensively, and am a committed Christian to this day.  I do know some people who attended Christian schools and later forsook the faith altogether, but I know many more who remained Christians.

Answer 7

I went to a Catholic school in the 80s that liked to hit you with a ruler or cane and that pretty much beat the desire for religion right out of me.

Answer 8

I attended both Catholic elementary and high school.

Answer 9

I attended Catholic schools. One of them was run by Delasalle Brothers who, although they were a teaching order of monks, encouraged us to question our beliefs and think for ourselves.

I was once a devout Catholic until my mid-late teenage, when I realised that faith was based upon nothing but itself, and that ideas about particles/waves of matter/energy and forces interacting with each other in space-time in a finite, yet boundless, expanding universe, satisfied me as explanation about how nature works. And the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is extremely impressive. There was no need for supernatural beings or God, which so complicated things that it was virtually certain they don't exist.

I've read the Bible several times right through and refer to it regularly, because it's one of my interests. I wouldn't claim to be anything like expert, but I do have a good knowledge of it. I've also read the Qu'ran, but can't claim anything like the same knowledge as I have of the Bible.

I'm interested in understanding why people believe deeply in things that seem to me to be clearly untrue. And I've been interested in religions, mythology, folklore, fairy tales and related matters since I was a child.