RE: @Atheists
March 1, 2013 at 12:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2013 at 1:01 am by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
I grew up as a fundie. Homeschooled k-12 and I was trained in apologetics. Creationism is a big deal in my family. We have probably close to a hundred books in our library on creationism and many creationist videos.
In my teens I was sent to a few "apolegetics" camps where fundie kids (mostly homeschoolers) get sent to be trained to defend Christianity.
What ultimately started my deconversion was a little introduction book on logical fallacies I read when I was 16. Although it was given to me as a way to know how to better defend my faith, I couldn't help noticing all the sudden the numerous fallacies I was hearing from creationists like Hovind (I devoutly listened to his 14 hours of seminars dozens of times) and pastors.
At 18 I started having serious doubts about creationism. I was now too embarrased about it to discuss it with others and I no longer wore my obnoxious creationist t-shirts and hat. By the time I was twenty I was pretty apathetic about creationism. "Maybe creationism is true but who cares? I know Christianity must be true even if evolution might be true." By 21, I pretty much threw creationism out after I started reading the cons of it. I adopted evolution mixed in with Christianty. The only thing holding me to Christianity then were the arguments of Craig and Habermas but then after a few months I realized what crap their arguments were. Almost a year ago I went over to atheism because I had no reason left to believe in Christianity or a god of any sort.
In my teens I was sent to a few "apolegetics" camps where fundie kids (mostly homeschoolers) get sent to be trained to defend Christianity.
What ultimately started my deconversion was a little introduction book on logical fallacies I read when I was 16. Although it was given to me as a way to know how to better defend my faith, I couldn't help noticing all the sudden the numerous fallacies I was hearing from creationists like Hovind (I devoutly listened to his 14 hours of seminars dozens of times) and pastors.
At 18 I started having serious doubts about creationism. I was now too embarrased about it to discuss it with others and I no longer wore my obnoxious creationist t-shirts and hat. By the time I was twenty I was pretty apathetic about creationism. "Maybe creationism is true but who cares? I know Christianity must be true even if evolution might be true." By 21, I pretty much threw creationism out after I started reading the cons of it. I adopted evolution mixed in with Christianty. The only thing holding me to Christianity then were the arguments of Craig and Habermas but then after a few months I realized what crap their arguments were. Almost a year ago I went over to atheism because I had no reason left to believe in Christianity or a god of any sort.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
