(July 2, 2014 at 9:48 pm)ignoramus Wrote: To all those who found that it felt like a burden had been lifted once becoming an atheist.
Is it safe to assume that you were never really believers.
How many were true believers here and are now athiests?
Did you try to defend your invested beliefs tooth and nail (to yourself at least) like eg: user: Ronedee.
If you did, why did you change and good people like Eg: Ronedee cannot?
Just curious.
I wish I could answer the question of whether I was a true Christian. I think, in one sense, I was a true Christian as I felt God and accepted the doctrines of the faith and defended the Bible and did lots of things that would indicate I was a Christian.
On the other hand, when I look back, I was lying to myself. One day, I'd be all confident that Christianity is true, the next day, I'd be confused and scared that it may not be true. Then the next day, I'd go back to telling myself it's true. And so on.
At the end, I just said: fuck it, I want to know if what I'm believing is the truth. After lots of research and inquiry, I finally confessed to myself I couldn't really believe this Christian bullshit anymore. But it's possible I was already an unbeliever long before the confession.
