RE: Deconversion process help me
June 4, 2013 at 12:14 am
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2013 at 12:15 am by Rahul.)
(April 25, 2013 at 12:21 pm)Bohook24 Wrote: Here I am. Just like almost every ex-Christian coming to atheism, I have a similar story. Although, I was brought up as a Christian, It wasnt extreme, it was just what I knew, it was fact. Jesus died for me and that was that. About 1 year ago the doubts started. Of course I tried to strengthen my faith 2 months ago, it worked for about 3 weeks and my faith went down the shitter again lol. I always questioned the existence of Jesus. I remember saying something to my dad when I was like 13 about how do I KNOW he is real? He just told me to have faith. About 2 weeks ago I looked in to atheism and it was like holy crap this is how I've felt for a very long time. It clicked. So now I'm leaving christianity. My question is how do I go about this decinversion process? How do get rid of these morals and fear of hell that have been branded upon me? What do I do?
The first thing you need to realize is that your morals do not come from Christianity at all. Christianity wrote down some pre-existing morals, but they also wrote down a heck of a lot that we, in the 21st century, consider highly immoral.
You're a good person, Bohook. Actually a lot better person than that Bible tells you to be.
Paraphrasing a quote. And it speaks a LOT of truth. Ruminate on this. "No matter what happens there will always be evil people doing evil things and good people doing good things. But for a good person to do evil, that takes religion."
That's brutal fact. And you're going to start noticing it all the time now.
