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Giving up religion didn't turn my world upside down or leave me drifting in the wind.
Heh. A bit different experience than mine. Losing my belief in Christianity was a pretty traumatic experience -- it was very unpleasant.
But this brings up the point, you made, crash. It was such an unpleasant experience that I can definitely state that I did not
choose to become an atheist -- I became an atheist despite what I
wanted to choose.
So when mpb1 says:
I considered the possibility of becoming an atheist, and realized I'd rather be a (potentially) self-deluded follower of Christ, than to walk away from the faith.
What does it matter what she would
rather do? Either someone believes or they don't. How does one
choose what they are going to believe?
But maybe I'm wrong -- maybe some people
can choose what they believe. It seems impossible to me, but maybe this explains why some people insist that one remains an atheist by choice.
Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. --
Charley the Australopithecine
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