(June 10, 2014 at 9:23 am)ThePinsir Wrote: Anyway, my "payoff", if you want to call it that, is a thirst for knowledge that I never really had as a Christian. Since "deconverting" back in January I've read every popular science book I can get my hands on, and I'm in the middle of reading Neitzche now. This almost certainly would've never happened if I'd stayed in that cult.
Why did you have to stop being a christian to have a thirst for knowledge? Can't christians have a thirst for knowledge? I always have.