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One Month Without Faith - Thank you.

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One Month Without Faith - Thank you.
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One Month Without Faith - Thank you.
July 16, 2015 at 6:40 pm (This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 6:43 pm by Spacetime.)
The title is misleading.  Sorry.  Today, I celebrate my one month anniversary of giving up trying to have faith.  I, for the last month, have been living as an agnostic free of prayer, church attendance, and, the constant discussion that once consumed me, defending a god I found detestable even on my "best" days.  I'm still finding it difficult to keep the same friends I had in the Church because they always want to talk about faith, but some of them are slowly realizing that I'd rather talk about other things.  My wife (who agrees with me most of the time) still attends, but it's because our entire life was wrapped up in the Church.  She said to me the other night in the kitchen when I showed her the "Pastafarians" YouTube video that she feels so stupid for holding similar beliefs.  For the first time in a very fulfilled life, I feel like I'm winning.  I feel like I'm on the bow of Magellan's ship calling out the course.  Free of hell, free of an eternal watchful "father", free of pointless scriptural study... I am happy and hopeful to help those who I can, learn as much as I can, and enjoy my life with the things I can now take credit for having (rather than thanking a brutal dictator in the sky for pretending to give me the bounty of *my* hard work).

I am happy. Big Grin

I'm toasting you guys for being supportive and hope that whatever your part in existence is right now, that it's bringing you happiness.

Thanks, guys/gals.

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One Month Without Faith - Thank you.

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One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by Spacetime - July 16, 2015 at 6:40 pm
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by Spacetime - July 16, 2015 at 9:24 pm
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by Spacetime - July 16, 2015 at 10:00 pm
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by Spacetime - July 16, 2015 at 10:25 pm
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by luka - July 16, 2015 at 9:28 pm
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by Spacetime - July 16, 2015 at 9:53 pm
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by brewer - July 16, 2015 at 9:31 pm
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by AFTT47 - July 16, 2015 at 10:42 pm
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by pocaracas - July 17, 2015 at 4:31 am
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by Longhorn - July 17, 2015 at 4:37 am
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by robvalue - July 17, 2015 at 6:09 am
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by robvalue - July 17, 2015 at 8:20 am
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by robvalue - July 17, 2015 at 10:30 am
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by Regina - July 17, 2015 at 10:44 am
RE: One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by dyresand - July 17, 2015 at 2:06 pm
One Month Without Faith - Thank you. - by KUSA - July 17, 2015 at 3:50 pm

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