RE: Age of Deconversion
November 22, 2019 at 10:33 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2019 at 10:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm unconcerned with where you might go or be going with your line of questions. I only hope that you can one day appreciate where you went, with your answers.
Faced with the reality of your evil god, you didn't cease to believe in it - you aligned yourself with that evil, and reimagined it as potential virtue. Even when it required complete 180's from post to post. Ultimately, you attempted to memory hole the entire notion..in real time, and it was impressive to watch.
This is likely to be what a deconvert does faced with the same, until they run out of energy for excuses and self deception. Your own thoughts and comments in these moments was the answer to the question you posed.
Now, what I find ironic, is that if this sort of effect leads to atheism, it's probably only on account of other bits of christian indoctrination. When the christian god is weighed and found wanting, there's no shortage of other gods to choose from, but none of those gods will seem like credible alternatives to a person who's been raised to worship christ. The only god they can genuinely conceive of is found to be a sham, and that leaves them in a godless universe. We actually have a whole pile of these stories, in a section called converts corner. Maybe you should check it out sometime. Sad stuff.
Faced with the reality of your evil god, you didn't cease to believe in it - you aligned yourself with that evil, and reimagined it as potential virtue. Even when it required complete 180's from post to post. Ultimately, you attempted to memory hole the entire notion..in real time, and it was impressive to watch.
This is likely to be what a deconvert does faced with the same, until they run out of energy for excuses and self deception. Your own thoughts and comments in these moments was the answer to the question you posed.
Now, what I find ironic, is that if this sort of effect leads to atheism, it's probably only on account of other bits of christian indoctrination. When the christian god is weighed and found wanting, there's no shortage of other gods to choose from, but none of those gods will seem like credible alternatives to a person who's been raised to worship christ. The only god they can genuinely conceive of is found to be a sham, and that leaves them in a godless universe. We actually have a whole pile of these stories, in a section called converts corner. Maybe you should check it out sometime. Sad stuff.
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