RE: How I got Out of Religion.
March 3, 2010 at 9:16 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2010 at 9:17 pm by TimeDivider.)
(January 24, 2010 at 8:27 am)LEDO Wrote: What is interesting in most of these conversion stories is that once a person stops believing in Jesus and/or the Bible they become an atheist. There are other religions. There are ideas about "God" that have nothing to do with the Bible or any religion. Yet, when people leave one belief they tend to leave them all.
Because when you leave the religion that you were indoctrinated with, your reasons for leaving are foundational most of the time. Basically, you realize the entire notion of God is nonsense, so you aren't inclined to seek out something with similar foundational falsehoods.
(February 14, 2010 at 6:46 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(January 24, 2010 at 8:27 am)LEDO Wrote: What is interesting in most of these conversion stories is that once a person stops believing in Jesus and/or the Bible they become an atheist. There are other religions. There are ideas about "God" that have nothing to do with the Bible or any religion. Yet, when people leave one belief they tend to leave them all.
My wife used to bean evangelical christian but is now a spiritualist medium.
Wow....that's like trading AIDS for Hepatitis.
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