My strange deconversion
July 5, 2015 at 7:27 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2015 at 7:35 pm by Excited Penguin.)
So I stopped being religious in my early teens, or maybe even earlier, I can't remember, but I still believed in God. So much so that when I first met a real-life atheist I was too shocked to actually believe her. This was a classmate of mine and I engaged her in conversation and so we ended up chatting online and then she made me write her a long email so I could better present my case for God's existence. As I wrote though, I reached a certain point where I realised my own error in judgement. I thought about it and it seemed that for me God was everything, and so it might have as well have been nothing - if God is the Universe then why call him God at all?
I think I was still in the"I believe in a force" phase for a while but then I discovered Nietzsche's Antichrist, by accident, leafing through hundreds of ebooks that I had stored in my pc, and it really shook my faith in the supernatural for good. As a bonus I got introduced to philosophy at such a young age and started having these absolutely amazing intellectual talks with my best friend at the time. It was staggering, the things we talked about at that age(13-14).
So yeah, that's my story, and I hope it didn't bore you too much. =)
I think I was still in the"I believe in a force" phase for a while but then I discovered Nietzsche's Antichrist, by accident, leafing through hundreds of ebooks that I had stored in my pc, and it really shook my faith in the supernatural for good. As a bonus I got introduced to philosophy at such a young age and started having these absolutely amazing intellectual talks with my best friend at the time. It was staggering, the things we talked about at that age(13-14).
So yeah, that's my story, and I hope it didn't bore you too much. =)
