Did anyone else get deconverted by a single sentence?

[Rhondazvous]

all that stuff you said

Do you have some kind of radar that lets you know when your name is mentioned in a post? something to do with your familial connection to Darth Vader, perhaps?

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"A second chance?" A chance to do what?

We have some xtians right here who answer this by saying god doesn't have to be perfectly loving and who are we to require him to be what we want him to be. Excuse me? Why should I trust in the salvation from a god who at any moment can change the meaning of salvation? Can you see those xtians up there at the pearly gates and St. Peter tells them, "Well, you just have to understand..."

Remember how I said I spent the bulk of my time from then on just pretending to still believe and going through the motions? Contemplating giving the faith a chance to prove itself to me was almost a defense mechanism. Instead it just shot itself in the foot, again.

Maybe we both held on so long for the same reason. Though I wasn’t pretending, hope made me hold onto a faith that proved itself over and over to have no basis in reality.

You live in Sacramento. I wonder if it’s anything like Los Angeles where I used to live. I lived in that area heavily populated by the Word of Faith movement. Then I tried to dove tail their teachings with the Calvinist teachings of Biola University, and nearly went insane.