Hello Truth Seekers

[Kyuuketsuki]

Well what I said was that my reasoning lead me to make the decision. the same as the reasoning lead me to decide for (I publicly committed a decision to be a Christian. It wasn't in private. I voiced my status the moment I changed it) . Like I said, after your correction, I didn't decide to be an atheist.. that was a figure of speech. I decided to 'not believe'. There was an actual moment I thought that to myself.

I don't really think it's possible to decide what to believe but I wonder if all we have here is a misunderstanding? Are you sure the point at which you decided wasn't more of an epiphany, a moment of revelation or some such because I certainly got one of those (a point at which I went, "Oh, so I'm an atheist!")?

In your experience you say the process was gradual and there was no definite point of conversion. I've heard that a lot from people who were believers as children. The other way too... there's no point they remember making a decision.. it's something that just gradually came over them.. a belief in God. To be disingenuous I'd call that fake; In my experience there's no commitment there; The person has no interest in what they believe.

Yes it was gradual but there was a point of realisation as I say above, a point at which my nightmares vanished and I finally felt very comfortable with what I then knew I was.

Kyu