RE: How long did it take for you to deconvert? What made you change your mind?
August 1, 2015 at 10:11 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2015 at 10:14 pm by Regina.)
I don't know when I de-converted when I look back in hindsight.
I had the "Catholic" label put on me as a kid, but if I'm being honest I don't think I ever really believed in it hardcore. I was hardly a child genius by any means, but I just seemed to have this ability to know I was being fed bullshit. I went along with the crowd and lived a half-assed "soft Catholicism", indentifying more with the culture than the religion, until I was about 19. After that I very briefly flirted with Paganism before having my atheist wake-up call. I'd say the process took about a year.
I had the "Catholic" label put on me as a kid, but if I'm being honest I don't think I ever really believed in it hardcore. I was hardly a child genius by any means, but I just seemed to have this ability to know I was being fed bullshit. I went along with the crowd and lived a half-assed "soft Catholicism", indentifying more with the culture than the religion, until I was about 19. After that I very briefly flirted with Paganism before having my atheist wake-up call. I'd say the process took about a year.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
