I was the opposite.

Some of us listened intently and immediately clocked the bull shit. I remember as a child arguing with my teachers about particular 'facts' they were telling us. One I remember specifically was the 'fact' that our planetary system held the only planets in the universe, (There are no other planets anywhere!!) and that the only planet with life on it was ours.

I remember saying that it could not be true and that we just didn't have good enough telescopes to see them. The teacher just shook her head in sympathy and said, 'No. We've looked and looked. There are no other planets!'

Then 27 years later when the first extrasolar planet was discovered, I stood up in my home and shouted, "I knew it!' Then over the years the number of extrasolar planets has grown into numbers that are uncountable.

Another incident was in church. I disliked very much what the Catholic priest was telling us about ourselves - we were covered in original sin and should forever beg for forgivenes. But when I asked, 'What sin? And how was I born with it?' The answer was to 'read the bible'. If the priest didn't know, then how was I going to find it myself? I vehemently objected to being branded 'guilty' for something I had nothing to do with!

And there was the constant prayer in which we all had to say, 'I am not worthy' while begging for forgiveness. As an innocent child I asked, 'Why am I not worthy? I am a good, obedient child!' There was no answer.

And so forth. I always felt so bad and angry after church I vowed to never go back once I got old enough to choose for myself.