Can a valid, supportable reason be offered for deconversion

Dawn Bertot asks: And I would ask if a valid, supportable reason to remain faithful be offered?Ah, but you asked first.If I give you my answer, will you answer mine?My answer: It's all about intelligence and understanding of things. The more you are aware, the more you find out these things that you were taught to believe in ARE WRONG.Before you scream INVALID, NOT SUPPORTED, yes, I understand that my view is not yours. However, as we hopefully crawl out of the 1530's I am fairly optimistic that - even if you THROW OUT all the people here in this forum that you disagree with - the overwhelming majority of the others, when it comes down to the crunch, will throw their vote to the side that is calm and methodical, almost - neigh, most certainly will be - boring us to tears, showing the details of the carefully constructed experiments designed to completely remove any apriori bias.The people who are making such investigations are those who have (1) spent a lot of money & time in their lives to remove such bias, and (2) have excelled in performing their duties, their work, their descriptive reports, their peer-reviewed acceptance and their tested veracity of the conclusions they reach around the world by completely different scientists. For anyone to have the notion of challenging their position without having first reached the same stature in accomplishments in the field in question (i.e. a PEER) is such an insult to the whole concept of education! The nerve of the idiots who claim the people who took the time to learn didn't learn! Are they being brainwashed? Every single one? How many so far? Millions? WTF! What a foul insult to spit upon these soldiers of mankind!So, no, I choose to respect them and - since I have also dabbled in the investigations enough to see that you really do need to be exacting and measure everything carefully, and knowing that you cannot advance without mastering the techniques of scientific procedure, - no - I choose to accept their conclusions and choose to accept the notion that they also can be immediately adjusted in the future. Those that formulate conclusions without adhering to such exacting rules just don't have the same credulity. Wouldn't you want to make sure nothing "funny" was going on?Based on this, the notion of some silly fairytale passed down mostly by word of mouth looks kind of wimpy, something that people who haven't understood what it truly means to measure things would do.My valid, supportable reason for me is embodied in the respect I have for those millions who have made the journey to confirmation (a term you might be familiar with, but is slightly different here) by peer-reviewed journals of discovery.

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- xongsmith, 5.7d

There is that story of the new convert who was ready to join up with the Apostles & Jesus, but first wanted to take some time to bury his father. Jesus tells him to come along right now, and forget about his dad, saying something to the effect of "Let the dead bury the dead." This shows up at the end of the Gregory Peck masterpiece "To Kill A Mockingbird" when the sheriff utters that exact line. It also shows up in Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" with the last verse line "Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you." In context with the other famous Jesus line about returning with a Sword, we find that Jesus wasn't much the peace hippy dude as we might have liked. He not all that he was cracked up to be. Had a lot of cool things to say, but in the end comes off as a pretty deluded insane wacko. You can deconvert from Atheism, too. For example, RAZD has done that. I might suspect, that in his case, it was some kind of a Eureka!-like synthesis of the marvelousness of the entire universe, not a deluded Intelligent Design Institute view, but an even simpler snap of the fingers. However, RAZD has abundantly made it clear that it is a private matter and not up for display here. So we can only speculate.

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- xongsmith, 5.7d

Ringo opines: SHHHHHHHH! Dawn is one of our best ever undercover plants for deconversion!!!!

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- xongsmith, 5.7d

Dawn asks: Well, since we are all on the next Titanic, it really doesn't matter.

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- xongsmith, 5.7d

I'm not seeing the problem here.

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- xongsmith, 5.7d

Dawn asks: At best? Not at all. There's a lot good stuff to read in there. A lot of points about human civilization and how they began to formulate codifications as approximations of civilized laws in its primitive days. Perhaps the best function of the Bible (whatever that is) is to demonstrate how frail the human mind is and how easily large percentages of them can be fooled at once. We should do everything we can to preserve it as a record of our mistaken history. Keep up the good work. Anthropology needs all the help it can get.

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- xongsmith, 5.7d

Dawn completely loons out again with: Who cares about what YOU think...IF SOMEONE. Can't you read? The question begins with "IF SOMEONE" - is that YOU? Not necessarily. Anybody could be that someone. In fact we already know that you are not that someone. The OP asks NOT if there is anything to deconvert YOU. It asks "Can a valid, supportable reason be offered for deconversion?"Aside from the fact that you have NOT clearly shown a unity, that isn't the point here: If someone NOT YOU reads some bible that they had been told to believe was telling the Truth and instead, upon their own complete analysis, decides that there is no unity of doctrine or theme, are they not fully justified in deconverting?If Osama bin Laden takes another look at the book he believes in and decides that it is nothing more than a good collection of parables and morality stories, so he deconverts, surely you would agree that this a valid, supportable reason for deconversion?If anyone else BUT YOU takes another look at the book he or she believes in and decides that it is nothing more than a good collection of parables and morality stories, so he deconverts, surely you would agree that this a valid, supportable reason for deconversion?Here - imagine if you had started this topic: Can a valid, supportable reason be offered for my own deconversion?You would get about 6 or so simple replies: No.I'm sad that you are lost.
Anyway, Merry Christmas!Edited by xongsmith, : replaced wrong word

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- xongsmith, 5.7d