Happiness level after embracing atheism

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So...

It was a coincidence that you discovered all the rules you didn't want to follow anymore happened to be unbiblical at the same time as getting fed up following them? If that's the case, what relevance is it how difficult they are to follow? If however you'd already stopped because they were hard, then clearly that was the motivating factor and you later justified it to yourself.

Sure, I'm an "evolutionist" (I doubt that's a real word) but I don't base my opinions about reality on how difficult things are to do, nor does my study of evolution have any impact on how I live my life.

Please, please don't try to tell me I base my morality on evolution. I'll give you enough credit to assume that wasn't the implication.

Actually, you have it backwards Rob. I suffered under the church laws for most of my life during which time I studied the catechism a lot, but didn't read the bible much. It wasn't until after I began studying scripture that I became aware that we didn't get out from under one set of laws just to fall under another. Don't get me wrong. I believe that catholics can also be christians, but they must carry around a lot of extra baggage. That doesn't mean that they are not fellow christians.

My analogy abut evolutionists was to show that you can be one and have different ideas about specifically how it came about than other evolutionists. You can also be a christian and have different interpretations of scripture than other christians. I don't think that belief in evolution has any bearing on morality. I have come to accept an evolutionary process, but I believe God is the creator of the universe.