In a world without God...

[Drich]

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.

I guess you know now what it is to build your house upon the sand.