In a world without God...

[Doubting Thomas]

I didn't even consider critically examining my faith until the later half of my 20's. And it took me a good long while about 5-6 years before I could really reason it out well enough to convince myself. It was really unintentional. If you had told the 25 year old me I'd be an atheist at 35 I would have been highly offended.

I hear about former Christians deconverting in like a month or less. I don't see how that's possible. It was too firmly entrenched in me.

Sounds like my life. I was baptized as a baby which is the way Catholics do it, but I was firmly entrenched into believing in God & Jesus. Like you, if you'd told the 25 year old me that I'd be an atheist in 10 years, I wouldn't have believed you and probably would have told you to fuck off.

But it did happen, but not overnight. I think it took chiseling my faith away little by little until I finally reached an epiphany and realized that I had been lying to myself and things made much more sense when you look at the world with a godless view.

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Actually, on another, now defunct atheism board, I posed that question to a fundie Christian and he actually admitted that he would kill someone if God told him to.

That is unsettling

Yes, it definitely was. Scary to think that the only thing keeping a delusional person from killing someone is that they just hadn't had that particular delusion yet.