(October 5, 2014 at 10:32 am)Retrolord Wrote: I'm going to convert to Catholicism from Hinduism next year. I joined to see what made people atheists. I wanted to see what goes inside your minds. I don't mean to mock or convert.
Welcome. I do have to say, I find it odd that you are predicting your conversion that far into the future and don't simply say that you're Catholic.
(October 5, 2014 at 10:32 am)Retrolord Wrote: For starters I'd like to ask you what did you dislike about Christianity (apart from the practitioners). I also would like to know about the questions you had in your mind when you left the faith of your ancestors. Perhaps I could give a shot at answering them? (Only if you wish)
I was Christian for about 30 years. My deconversion was pretty slow. I simply realized one day that I no longer believed. I spend a couple of years trying to get myself to believe again, but it never worked for very long. I then spent around six months worried that I was wrong and was going to end up in hell. I eventually let go when I thought about how I'd never worried about going to Muslim hell for not following the five pillars of Islam, or worried about any other religions. I was only worried about Christianity out of habit.
That being said, I'm not religious now because I don't see any non-presuppositional evidence for it. Every bit of "evidence" someone shows me always relies on them assuming God exists in the first place.
As far as what I dislike about Christianity? Apart from it being completely non-falsifiable, I'm not a big fan of the notion that we're nothing without God and that we are deserving of eternal punishment from birth. Also, the notion of an "all loving" god creating hell never made sense to me, either.
