RE: Is de-converting a form of converting?
October 6, 2008 at 2:25 am
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2008 at 2:33 am by StewartP.)
Most aspects of my deconversion were simply the shedding of old attitudes and beliefs, and as I had been slowly slipping away it was gradual and natural. As I think of it this refers mainly to my slide away from the church.
There were other aspects tho that were powerful and revalatory. Suddenly realising that THERE IS NO GOD came like a revelation, and great liberation with it.
Losing my fear of god and eternal damnation was also a pivotal pôint. I had watched a few of the YouTube Blasphemy Challenges and doing one myself broke a bunch of emotional chains.
So some aspects of deconversion were sudden, powerful, revelatory, like a conversion. Others not.
edited to add:
It's still there on YouTube, nearly 2 years old now, my first ever YouTube video was my Blasphemy Challenge
There were other aspects tho that were powerful and revalatory. Suddenly realising that THERE IS NO GOD came like a revelation, and great liberation with it.
Losing my fear of god and eternal damnation was also a pivotal pôint. I had watched a few of the YouTube Blasphemy Challenges and doing one myself broke a bunch of emotional chains.
So some aspects of deconversion were sudden, powerful, revelatory, like a conversion. Others not.
edited to add:
It's still there on YouTube, nearly 2 years old now, my first ever YouTube video was my Blasphemy Challenge
'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? Jer 8:8
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
