(January 3, 2016 at 1:21 am)Deidre32 Wrote:Well As I've posted before here, it was mostly the melting of the cognitive dissidence that I hadn't before noticed that the people that claimed the most personal, active relationships with god were the worst people that I knew. I couldn't explain why my morality was better than the stories preached from the pulpit or observed in the homes of other pastors. I also observed that some of the best moral people I knew were victims of church wrath and were not "christians." Reading to understand the bible made me an affirmed atheist. Growing up very well educated in science, and other disciplines made me much less gullible to quackery but never hardened my heart against truth if it is truth.(January 3, 2016 at 1:13 am)Brakeman Wrote: No he hasn't. Nothing at all. I was a pastor's kid who fervently believed god was talking to me and guiding me, only I slowly discovered that I was just talking to myself and that all the "movement" and relief that I'd felt was just my emotions that I was controlling through my own wishful thinking.
What do you feel caused you to change your stance on that, though? Do you feel that because you were raised in faith, it was more pressed upon you to see things as your dad did, etc? Just wondering.
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