(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?
Have as anyone ever told you that there's no free lunch? We'll it isn't true, occasionally grandma or daddy will pony up for lunch. But as a general rule, if you have to be bribed to believe something, it isn't true. Religion offers no evidence, but promises rather ultimate benefits: eternal life, a man in the sky watching your back, justice, etc. And threatens rather ultimate harm: eternal damnation and death. But there's no more evidence of either of those things than there is of god. The only benefit I can offer you for atheism is not having to worry about fictional eternal damnation. Death, I'm afraid is a natural consequence of living. No one is likely to arrive on you doorstep preaching atheism. There are no benefits other than those naturally accruing from not believing a falsity.
Believing in fiction happens for many reasons. In the case of religion it's usually either guilt because people you love want you to believe, or a need to feel that someone or thing has got your back. But while I've felt that guilt, I've never actually believed, so I can't really give you any tips on how not to do it anymore than I can tell you how not to breath. I don't believe for the simple reason that there's no real evidence of a god. I don't really know how to believe in things for no reason.
You do realize that pretending to believe doesn't make you a theist, just an atheist in the closet right?
Welcome to the forum whether you believe in god or not.
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.
