I find this one of the most fascinating things about my own experience as an atheist and the experience of others who have deconverted. I can listen to deconversion stories all day long. From what I gather, the experience of getting rid of someone else inside your head is a much more challenging process than having never had a guest there. My impression from having listened to so many of these tales is, it's an ongoing battle for a very long time. Makes me glad I never had my thinking processes cluttered up this way.
I have a good friend who was raised in a fundamentalist home and who now practices something she refers to as 'Torah.' I don't know how this is different from classic Judaism and I don't really care. She has a keen mind, is very inquisitive and has the makings of a good critical thinker. Yet there are places she simply doesn't permit her fine brain to go -- evolution being chief among them. I simply can't fathom how someone who enjoys thinking as much as she does will allow such barriers to be placed in front of her thoughts. But she does, and quite vehemently, too. (I think I will win out in the end, with patience and relentless insidiousness. Heheh.)
I have a good friend who was raised in a fundamentalist home and who now practices something she refers to as 'Torah.' I don't know how this is different from classic Judaism and I don't really care. She has a keen mind, is very inquisitive and has the makings of a good critical thinker. Yet there are places she simply doesn't permit her fine brain to go -- evolution being chief among them. I simply can't fathom how someone who enjoys thinking as much as she does will allow such barriers to be placed in front of her thoughts. But she does, and quite vehemently, too. (I think I will win out in the end, with patience and relentless insidiousness. Heheh.)
