meldinoor writes:
I'm curious whether anyone else here who has gone through a deconversion recognizes any of this. Is it usually this difficult? How long did it take you to go from a fairly deep religious conviction to non-belief in God?
Just a few seconds. Back in 1970, my parents forced me to go to the Nazarene church in North Fresno despite hiding under the bed. Once there, they told me I was not welcome back because my hair touched my ears.
Obviously I wanted to ask about that hippie hanging on a cross behind the altar, but at 12 years old, I figured these fanatics were too stupid to get the irony.
{ABE} I still believe in God, it just lives in the critical point between Deism, Pantheism, Philosophical Taoism, and Matayama Buddhism. More later if interested. {/ABE}
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen
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