RE: My strange deconversion
July 6, 2015 at 1:08 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2015 at 1:29 am by Excited Penguin.)
(July 5, 2015 at 11:43 pm)Faith No More Wrote: That doesn't sound strange to me.
I guess it's strange for me because of my particular experience. I don't really remember how religious or theistic I was and up to what point. I guess I just have these powerful memories, some of which I already cited, but don't know exactly where or how to place them on my deconversion scale without stopping to make any sense. Maybe it's just that I fail to put it all in perspective.
On a second thought though, I really think I was always kind of a skeptic towards religion and god, and only accepted them as far as I was being slightly superstitious on purpose - you know, like being a ten year old who pretends to believe in Hogwarts after reading J.K. Rowling or in vampires after reading Ann Rice, but knowing at the same time that he really doesn't. The difference being, of course, that the teachings of the Bible were something forced upon me --something I didn't really take to very well. Kind of like a bad authority figure that you really depend on - you accept it because you have no apparent choice but you reject it all the same on account of it being bad for you.
