RE: Ask a Catholic
August 23, 2015 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2015 at 3:55 pm by abaris.)
(August 23, 2015 at 3:48 pm)Jenny A Wrote: For most atheists I know deconverting was an intellectual process much like discovering Santa doesn't exist. Just as anger sometimes accompanies discovering that the jolly old elf is a trick played on you by your parents, there may be anger associated with ceasing to believe. But it's anger at a lie, and at scare tactics, not anger driving out faith.
For me it was from having first doubts at age 9 to finally quit at age 29. So a timespan of about 20 years. And it wasn't anger. Not at all. If it had been about anger, I would have stayed and chalked the anger up as being directed at the priests. It was the pieces not adding up. Not making any sense, in lights of what I knew about the world, it's history and biology.