How did u feel when you deconverted?

[Minimalist]

I got more sleep on Sundays.

[Crunchy]

Were there any moral reasons involved in your decision? For me, part of the reason was certainly the horror that the Catholic church had been involved in since its inception. Did the crimes committed in the name of islam factor into your decision?

[purplepurpose]

Three years have passed since I left religion and now I understood a bit clearer that the feeling of guild I experience sometimes is appropriate simply because I choose comfortable life and give up on harder or more moral life.

But "choking" your current life's comfort/happiness/pleasures/joy in order to gain "true"/"eternal(o_o)" happiness in afterlife is a trail I refuse to endure.

[The Valkyrie]

I felt free.

As you say, a great burden was lifted.

Not one of morality or anything like it, just the weight of nonsense, of what was a fundamental belief being relegated to mythology along with all the other god myths.

[trev22]

Less of a sinner, and I found the truth! Temptations actually diminished.

[Edwardo Piet]

I never deconverted.

Can't be deconverted when you've never been converted.

[Sal]

I'm an Christian apostate.

Took me a while, but when it started to sink in that there is no Hell (or Heaven) and that a omniscient peeping-tom isn't watching my every move and the Bible is just another book, it felt liberating. Like a weight had been taken off my shoulders and that this life is the only life, which makes it that more precious.

[Kosh]

I knew something didn't smell right at a young age.  I went through Lutheran confirmation for my parents, but that is about it.  I've got some funny stories about going to church with women I dated.  In my opinion, I was never able to be indoctrinated.  I think I was in third grade and argued with my Sunday school teacher that the Noah story was a lie because all the salt water fish would have died due to earth being flooded with fresh water from the rain      When I was in high school I kicked that argument up a notch by calculating the amount of water it would have taken to cover the earth in cubic meters assuming the water ended up being around 16,000 feet above sea level.  I knew my priest would use the ole "The water is in the north and south pole caps" crap, so I had a calculation set to go on how much water was still missing because.  It was a pretty "Bigly" number.

Anyways, didn't feel anything because I never lost anything...  of value...

[The Industrial Atheist]

My experience was kind of Similar to Lebeni's

I stopped feeling guilty about normal human urges. I didn't waste time in Church after a certain point. This may be self incriminating but I did go to a different Church for awhile after I stopped believing. I live in a rural area and the avenues for socialization are churches and bars here, That's unless I strike up conversations with people I don't know in random public places which I've never been good at. Bars aren't an option as it is not good to mix alcohol with the meds I take and I've never liked to drink anyway.
So going to Church to socialize seemed like a good idea until I got tired of God, God, praise God, obey God.

One of the things was, I realized few if any of the people at my old Church were my friend, after going there for almost 20 years. I realized I don't really owe that Church a damned thing.

overall, I felt freed, although I did miss praying for a while.

[Amarok]

The same as any other day