RE: How long did it take for you to deconvert? What made you change your mind?
July 31, 2015 at 8:48 pm
I don't think I ever really believed. I was in a non-denominational, heavy attending protestant family who are all believers, my little brother the most liberal, my older sister on the outskirts of a quiverfull situation, my parents fundies. I attended church until I went to college, never buying it, but not rocking the boat. I also had no idea what an atheist was. I attached some evil Satan worshipping connotations to that word, probably thanks to my family.
Embarrassingly, it was Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code that pushed me over the edge into researching the origins of the Church and reading Ehrman and, ultimately, The God Delusion.
By page 50 I was eager to call myself an atheist. All in all, a couple of weeks from question to answer.
Embarrassingly, it was Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code that pushed me over the edge into researching the origins of the Church and reading Ehrman and, ultimately, The God Delusion.
By page 50 I was eager to call myself an atheist. All in all, a couple of weeks from question to answer.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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