RE: Deconversion
April 27, 2015 at 4:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 4:18 am by Red Economist.)
(April 27, 2015 at 2:57 am)themc Wrote: I would like to deconvert, but I don't feel like I can unless it is thoroughly disproved and there are benefits that come with deconverting. I don't mind long, complex responses. As long as you don't call me stupid, it's all good.
I have tried before and come back to religion. How can I STAY an unbeliever once I've deconverted?
I think you need to think of deconversion as a 'positive' process of discovering and creating new values without religion. Nihilism and existential angst are problems of atheism but not inevitably so if you look at humanistic authors (Erich Fromm is a personal favorite). If you think of atheism as a personal journey rather than a destination and as a means to self-realization and liberation from religious ethics, you will probably go further than simply wanting to disprove god. It's about recognizing that you want to be free rather than being right as the latter implies that you are still afraid of a higher power judging you based on what they think is right. the easiest way to stay an atheist is to enjoy it.
