The Process of Deconversion

[FallentoReason]

[Minimalist]

We tend to think that a believer can be deconverted by one fatal argument that brings everything else down.

Speaking only for myself, it was the realization at the age of 11 that these pious fucks were not all that bright that led me to begin to question the whole edifice. It cannot stand up under close scrutiny. Too many absurd assertions propped up with too many outright lies.

[FallentoReason]

We tend to think that a believer can be deconverted by one fatal argument that brings everything else down.

Speaking only for myself, it was the realization at the age of 11 that these pious fucks were not all that bright that led me to begin to question the whole edifice. It cannot stand up under close scrutiny. Too many absurd assertions propped up with too many outright lies.

It still puzzles me how people avoided ever being religious at such a young age. Maybe your brains developed a lot quicker because I remember that in 1999 (I was 9) I got fooled into thinking the world was going to end when the calendar hit 2000. I was pretty miserable during those days!

[Minimalist]

My parents regarded religion as a "duty".... for us, not for them. Suffice it to say that they did not set a stellar example for religious bullshit.

Made it easy.

[FallentoReason]

My parents are non-practising Catholics so I guess that made it fairly easy to develop a more liberal way of thinking about the world for me.

[Minimalist]

My brother is 6 years older than me. When he went into the Navy I was 12. He had been driving us both to church as one way to get his hands on the car.

Without him, my dad asked if I wanted him to drive me to church or would I rather sleep in?

I've been sleeping in on Sundays for the last 50 years, FtR. So yeah - parents can definitely shove this shit up their kids' asses if they have a mind to do so.

[Angrboda]