(February 2, 2016 at 8:54 am)thool Wrote: I'm interested in what others felt in their lives, especially if you left a religion.
There's not a simple answer to this.
- I got rid of the cognitive dissonance that I'd had for several years, which lead to depression. That was good, and was like a weight lifted.
- I found myself revisiting things after having Christian "knee jerk" responses, wondering what my views were, now. This was mostly positive, but kind of odd. I didn't realize how many Christian assumptions I'd made about the world.
- I found myself going from being the most privileged group in the US to the least-trusted minority. Of course, the odd thing is, it's the kind of thing no one knows unless I tell them. This is somewhat negative in that I now get pissed much more quickly when I see Christians flexing their "I want the biggest piece of the pie because I've always had it" muscle.
- I've found a lot of my friends and relatives who aren't religious, and this both gives me a support group and lets us talk freely about something we hadn't before. It's mostly a positive (offset by a few fundies who bother me more than they used to).
