Ex-Christian

[Mister Agenda]

For de-converts, what led to your loss of faith?
How did you handle it?
How is life on the other side?

I was raised Pentecostal, and it never occurred to me to doubt anything. I undertook the read the (KJV) Bible as an act of devotion and because I thought I ought to know the Bible. Then I read it again in a Modern English to make sure the King's English hadn't thoroughly confused me. It hadn't. I couldn't reconcile the contents of that Book as connected to a tri-omni Creator. I was particularly appalled by the small children and pregnant women body counts. I became an agnostic theist; I still believed in God, just not the Abrahamic version.

I believed a bunch of other woo too; ESP, Ancient Astronauts, ghosts, Bigfoot, Nessie, pretty much all of it. I started becoming skeptical of those claims and eventually realized there wasn't sufficient evidence to justify believing any of it. In time I came to the same conclusion about God while I was attending university in my mid-thirties and took a course on religion and a course on logical fallacies in the same semester.