(August 11, 2023 at 10:31 am)Confused-by-christianity Wrote: intellectually you felt that you were always trying to keep your religion going?? Like propping it up becomes exhausting?
That's partly true. Eventually I couldn't reconcile the dissonance. The belief simply fell away at one point. I knew I didn't believe it, and quit the church.
The loss of belief was freeing. It was like a weight was removed. Cognitive dissonance has a price. I did miss the community, but I went to a new UU community.