RE: The transition between faith to no faith.
October 13, 2014 at 9:53 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2014 at 9:57 pm by Jenny A.)
(October 13, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:(October 10, 2014 at 8:42 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: A lot of you at one point had faith. At one point it felt like you knew God. When that feeling started to go away how were you? Were you caught up with thoughts about God a lot? When it away, how do you know it was baseless?
Hurt like a vinegar enema. Still does. I was damn close to backsliding this morning.
This is why I have no real interest in deconverting the happily religious---the guilt ridden soul angsting about thinking about sex yes. The problem comes in that the religious so often want to run the world according to their beliefs and that makes me daydream of deconverting pogroms.
The question I have for you in particular is have your morals (other than those involving worship) changed with conversion?
(October 13, 2014 at 6:31 pm)Sejanus Wrote: I'd say I stopped believing around the age I realized all the other fictional characters didn't exist. You know, santa claus, the tooth fairy, etc. This was about the age of 7 or 8.
That's what my youngest daughter did at about four. She rationally deduced that if there was as Santa on every block that they weren't all real which lead to asking about just how many homes Santa visited on Christmas Eve. I admit that we don't lie to the kids, so I answered her questions truthfully. She filled her older sister in on the bad news about Santa, The Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy about fifteen minutes later.
We cynics have to stick together.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
