(January 15, 2015 at 2:53 am)psychoslice Wrote: I don't believe in a god, but I still wright Christian songs, I also love good old gospel songs, just because you don't believe in god doesn't mean you have to give up everything to do with god, in other words, don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
This. If writing and performing Christian music makes you feel better, then go right ahead and do it. Sit down and ask yourself what it is about the music that makes it enjoyable to write and record. If you find that you no longer enjoy it, then by all means move on, but there's nothing about being a former believer that stops you from creating the music if it's what you love.
As for the rest of the OP: how does one do it? A day at a time. It seems you've only recently deconverted and that it was a difficult process for you. Give yourself time to deal with it and keep asking questions and seeking answers. Take it slow and see how your new outlook affects the way you approach life and your decisions. Our minds are pretty good at adapting to changes if we grit our teeth and stand our ground, but it's not an instantaneous process. Give it time.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
