RE: Ex Theists
August 14, 2009 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2009 at 4:53 pm by fr0d0.)
That is what I meant evie yes.
Well with me it was a definite choice not to believe. I remember sitting outside a church in my car and deciding not to believe. A feeling of relief/ elation came over me. Not quite the emotional rush of the opposite decision (not that that means anything. My conversion 2 years ago was even less emotional, so I assign that zero importance).
Your angry atheist stance seems to mean beyond reason. I've been violently (in feeling, not in action coz It's not my nature) anti theist but I put that down to personal issues rather than logic. I've loved agruing theists as an atheist, nothing gave me more pleasure. I never wanted to be nasty with that (not suggesting you do), just logically coherent and arguing in a way that theists couldn't answer in their own logic. The mind fuck aspect is very interesting to me, although I consider myself pure rationalist over philosophical or superstitious, to qualify that.
More than anything I STILL hate the hypocrisy in Church life. I can't stand it and come out spitting on the rare occasion I get duped into it.
Well with me it was a definite choice not to believe. I remember sitting outside a church in my car and deciding not to believe. A feeling of relief/ elation came over me. Not quite the emotional rush of the opposite decision (not that that means anything. My conversion 2 years ago was even less emotional, so I assign that zero importance).
Your angry atheist stance seems to mean beyond reason. I've been violently (in feeling, not in action coz It's not my nature) anti theist but I put that down to personal issues rather than logic. I've loved agruing theists as an atheist, nothing gave me more pleasure. I never wanted to be nasty with that (not suggesting you do), just logically coherent and arguing in a way that theists couldn't answer in their own logic. The mind fuck aspect is very interesting to me, although I consider myself pure rationalist over philosophical or superstitious, to qualify that.
More than anything I STILL hate the hypocrisy in Church life. I can't stand it and come out spitting on the rare occasion I get duped into it.
