RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
October 13, 2018 at 7:15 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2018 at 7:16 pm by Abaddon_ire.)
(October 13, 2018 at 6:59 pm)CarveTheFive Wrote: I’m not in the school of we control our beliefsGreat, your claim is that you have no control over yourself. Guess again.
(October 13, 2018 at 6:59 pm)CarveTheFive Wrote: If you believe in hell why torture yourself trying to pretend you don’t?Because decades of religious manipulation have in Pavlovian fashion enbedded such wonky thinking in peoples brains. That is what they do. That is their intention.
(October 13, 2018 at 6:59 pm)CarveTheFive Wrote: Maybe part of your brain can believe and another part doesn’t...It's called compartmentalisation and it is a real thing. It's easy for me or you to toss that aside, but for someone coming out of that nonsense? Not so much.
It seems that your goal is to actively drive folks back into faith. Why?
(October 13, 2018 at 6:59 pm)CarveTheFive Wrote: All I know is I’m not afraid of things I don’t believe in. That certainly includes hell.I don't believe you. So far, all you do is try to scare people from leaving that superstitious rubbish. Why?
(October 13, 2018 at 6:59 pm)CarveTheFive Wrote: But on the other hand I don’t think atheism is some kind of panacea. Why try to force yourself into being something you’re not?Strawman. Nobody claimed atheism as a panacea but you. Making crap up out of whole cloth is the trademark of the theist. Like you.
Furthermore, those emerging from theism are always unsure who they are or what they believe. You are actively attempting to drive those people back to your imaginary god. Why?
