How long did it take for you to deconvert? What made you change your mind?

[Salacious B. Crumb]

Like you, Ian, my de-conversion came about on the internet, watching videos. I was surrounded by religious people, and was fully immersed in it. The Atheist Experience was the thing that got me out of believing in god, but I was watching the classic atheist Youtube personalities as well. It took me 4-5 months of watching the Atheist Experience to lose my faith in god. It would have happened sooner, but I felt I had a few ghostly encounters a few times in my life, that couldn’t be explained away, so I had to do some debunking, which was hard, because I was “indoctrinated” into these ghost and exorcist T.V. programs. I never thought that me, having these experiences, plus millions of others on T.V., could be mistaken. I eventually realized that these T.V. programs with alien abductions, psychics, and ghosts were all full of shit (most of my family still believes in them though), and saw that they were easily explained away by being reality T.V. I realized that these few ghostly experiences that I have had in my life, only happened upon just being awaken from a sleep, and I was able to dismiss it as hallucinations.

Even as devout as I was, the last few years with my faith, I fell out of it in 10-15 minutes. After a few more days of serious research, I had completely confirmed my position, on thinking religion was total man-made bullshit. If you seriously question your religion, and do just a little unbiased research, you will fall out of it, if you’re a truly open-minded person.