Funny little de-conversion
October 1, 2012 at 7:57 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2012 at 8:02 pm by will_alltogether.)
There's a girl I've been talking to for a while, and she's pretty in to me. When we had our first serious conversation a couple months ago, I said I don't believe in any god, and she said she believes in god, but not the Christian one. I dropped it immediately, and didn't bring it up again.
We've talked a lot about everything, and I've noticed that she's been agreeing with me more and more lately. I mentioned that I'm an atheist for the second time at dinner the other night, pointing out that nobody can give me a solid rational argument for the existence of god. She replied by saying "Yeah, I'm thoroughly atheist. The idea of god just isn't reasonable." Not exactly her shining moment intellectually, but I feel fairly accomplished for "converting" someone without even arguing
My own transition was much longer and less interesting, and involved realizing how damn much sense evolution makes and how it's a bullshit neo-christian copout to pick and choose which parts of the Bible you take seriously. Realizing that I couldn't be a fundamentalist and I wasn't willing to half ass it, I slowly became an "agnostic", then learned to call myself an atheist as I became more comfortable in my new world-view.
We've talked a lot about everything, and I've noticed that she's been agreeing with me more and more lately. I mentioned that I'm an atheist for the second time at dinner the other night, pointing out that nobody can give me a solid rational argument for the existence of god. She replied by saying "Yeah, I'm thoroughly atheist. The idea of god just isn't reasonable." Not exactly her shining moment intellectually, but I feel fairly accomplished for "converting" someone without even arguing
My own transition was much longer and less interesting, and involved realizing how damn much sense evolution makes and how it's a bullshit neo-christian copout to pick and choose which parts of the Bible you take seriously. Realizing that I couldn't be a fundamentalist and I wasn't willing to half ass it, I slowly became an "agnostic", then learned to call myself an atheist as I became more comfortable in my new world-view.
