(May 1, 2017 at 11:51 am)pulzar Wrote: I am working on a research dealing with religion, conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. The goal is to find out what factors play the key role in deconversion from such ideas.
If you dropped your religious, conspiracy or pseudoscience beliefs, what made you change your views? I know it is usually very long and complicated journey, but try to zoom out on the main factors.
I am also interested whether any kind of ridicule / poking fun / comedy or calls for self-deprecation played any role?
The church leaders stopped being able to provide plausible answers and said you just have to believe because we tell you to. I stopped. I suppose that's logic/skeptic.
bold mine: On the part of the church or me?
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