(August 27, 2021 at 11:09 am)Spongebob Wrote: I was involved in a church that strongly opposed that kind of radical thinking and I was beginning to reject the ideologies that I just couldn't conform to (and those are legion). So this led to spiritual experimentation and that just leads wherever it leads. For me it was a winding path that eventually led to atheism.
Many of us, including me, were raised in church communities, in my case very rural, that did not feed our intellects. I also understand how such an environment could lead to eventual disillusionment and, for some to bitterness. In my youth, I went all in for existentialism Sartre, Nietzsche, etc...and really I think my understanding of those thinkers at the time was very rudimentary and crude. Now I see their ideas in a more nuanced way and were I an atheist, I would probably veer in that direction.
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