On Hell and Forgiveness

[Aroura]

Guess what?  I became an atheist around the age of 33.  I did have questions before, and I would say my journey started around age 13 or 14, but I didn't get over that final hurdle by being insulted.  It was by years of gentle and patient discussion with another atheist (among other things).  One who rarely went for the throat, and siply tried to get me to think.

There are a lot of deconverted theists on this site.  Logic can and does work.  People are leaving religion in droves (and not because some random Joe insulted them on the internet).

Now who's grasping at straws.

When I was a theist, the more I was attacked, the more I clung to my belief.  That's true fundamentalism.  However, I never reached reality because of debate.  It simply doesn't work that way.

What I did was my own research outside of biblical works, church, etc.

I'm not going to stop calling theist delusional.  You should be glad I'm only calling them that.

My bolded....And yet you persist.

I'm sure everyone leaving religion did so 100% self sufficiently, or maybe it was after researching on their own and reading Bertrand Russel's paper "On Why you are Delusional", or perhaps it was Nietzsche's "God is Dead and you were a childish moron to believe in him in the first place".  Yes yes, influential works , those.  Not that any of that has ever affected anyone else, naturally.  They all got there completely on their own. 


(p.s. your experience is not definitive.  For many people, exposure to other ideas alone plants the seeds to even do the research)