(June 25, 2013 at 10:14 am)Tonus Wrote: I agree. I do think it brings up interesting questions. I became an atheist in part because I tried very hard to make religious belief fit logically into the world around me. I'd like to think that I did so with such sincerity and even-handedness that the outcome was the only possible one, even though it was not the one I intended to reach. But maybe a part of me wanted to ditch religion, for some reason I cannot fathom? Hard to say. I know myself a lot better than I did five or ten years ago, but that's still just scratching the surface, as far as I am concerned.
I deconverted the same way, Tonus. I was raised Southern Baptist with the belief that you can't fall from grace after you were saved. I got into an argument about it with another Protestant from another denomination that believed you could.
So I wanted to make sure I wouldn't go to hell and started trying to reason everything out.
Surprise! Atheism. Who would have thunk it?
Not me. Probably the most shocking conclusion I could have come to.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
