(February 10, 2015 at 1:21 pm)Nope Wrote: I was in my early forties or late thirties. Losing my faith was not something I wanted to happen so I fought very hard against it. Once I finally admitted my faith was gone, it was like a burden lifted off my shoulders
I do feel angry with myself for wasting part of my life with such an obvious delusion
I am rather displeased that I wasted any of my life on it as well. In my case, though, I was young when I deconverted. But the process took several years, as, like you, I wanted very much to believe. I wasted a lot of time on that, that could have been spent learning something useful, if only I had not been raised to believe such nonsense. Really, Christianity is too silly and ridiculous, so there was no way I could continue to believe it. Too many contradictions and too much nonsense. The idea of a Christian god is as ludicrous as any idea one could possibly have.
I am reminded of the words of David Hume:
- So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
Amen.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
