I can't remember who taught me the prayer as a child and can't remember the last time I recited it. I suspect my sister taught me.
Nope, not in the household I grew up in...and my Mother taught Sunday School for some period of time during my childhood.
Being raised up in an Atheist home, I wasn't taught or encouraged to say any prayers. But, my parents did allow my sister and I to attend a local church, where I first learned the Lord's prayer. I guess I skipped the nursery ryme level. Here's a fun fact on the topic for everyone here. This simple child's prayer was taught in the public school system via the New England Primer, the first reading texbook designed for the American Colonies. First published between 1687 and 1690, it became the most successful educational textbook published in 18th century America, with a reported 2 million copies sold. It served as the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s and remained in print well into the 19th century and used up to the 20th century. The loss of this prayer being taught by our kids in school is a small example from many of the Christian heritage values we've lost in this country.
Would that be a function/ purpose of a conscience , to feel or be disturbed by prayer, faith or religion ?
Here is the prayer that some folks say disturbed them as a child. Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep I Pray The Lord My Soul To Keep If I Should Die Before I Wake I Pray The Lord My Soul To Take.
Another bedtime ritual that disturbed me: The singing of "Rock-a-bye baby, in the treetop...." What sadistic individual could enjoy singing a song about imminent death to a young child trying to go to sleep? That lullaby truly freaked me out! I remember it from around age three.