RE: Ex pastor explains how Christianity is fake
May 2, 2019 at 9:38 am
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2019 at 10:10 am by Brian37.)
(May 2, 2019 at 8:35 am)tackattack Wrote: Or...<enter taylor swift> Cause a fakers gonna fake fake fake fake fake.... since he was in 8th grade. But sure, let's go with the generalization that all Christians lie to themselves and others all the time and hate "real science". All Christians "must be" just like an abusive, misogynistic rage beast partner </sarcasm>. I honestly feel for the dude, it's tough to deal with that cognitive dissonance in a way that doesn't trash your whole life when you've been living a lie so long. I mean you could have celebrated his release from a perceived truth, or sympathetically felt for his loss, but no... lets just ignore the OP plea for real human loving relationships and jump on the bandwagon of "fuck the Christians". I'm glad the dude felt loved and accepted somewhere, and am really surprised at his humility and apologetic tone. I hope his life gets better.
(May 2, 2019 at 6:40 am)Fierce Wrote: The theistic troll response on FB is, He wasn't a real christian.
Because he admitted to faking it to make it all his life. It's not a troll response, it reading comprehension.
No, he deluded himself, then reason pulled him out of that delusion. No different than when you believed in Santa as a kid, then finally realize Santa was made up and nothing more than your parents selling you a story.
(May 2, 2019 at 8:44 am)tackattack Wrote: No, he didn't say in 8th grade he had doubt and asked questions, solved is cognitive dissonance or resolved his "crisis of faith". He just continued his own private journey into not getting answers from what the article says and "The whole time hoping at some point it would click, and become true for me." So it's just reading that it was never true for him. Just because calling a spade, a spade, is common, it doesn't detract from the correctness of the spade being a spade.
Nice word salad. "crisis of faith".....
How much of a "crisis of faith" do you have about Thor or Apollo or Vishnu or Allah?
I once believed myself. Ditching a bad claim isn't a "crisis", it is simply realizing you got it wrong.
If our species never questioned social norms our species never would have left the caves.
It certainly can be emotionally difficult to question something you are used to believing. But that isn't crisis, that is simply being uncomfortable when being challenged by others, or being self introspective.
"Crisis of faith" is code for, "Don't question if it leads you away. Question to fish for an answer you like."
Reason and logic don't lead you where you want to go, reason and logic leads you to facts, beyond your own personal bias.
