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By: Change of Heart… « Flirting With Faith

Change of Heart… « Flirting With Faith — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:45:40 +0000

[...] when a posting on this blog titled “Atheism Sells” caught the attention of the folks at de-conversion.com. I’ve enjoyed learning a little more about this community of people and their journeys toward [...]

By: truthwalker

truthwalker — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:52:34 +0000

I can’t speak for all the deconverted, but for myself, belief in atheism has not caused any sense of loss. Actually, I consistently feel more “blessed” for lack of a better word, since I deconverted.

I took the Bible very seriously, and to me personally, the experience of Christianity was nothing but a constant search for an explanation to my continual moral failure.

Hence, leaving it has been wonderful. I have friends now who love me for who I am, instead of who I can be after Jesus “fixes” me. I no longer feel guilt for being human. I have to try hard not to be a loud mouth evangelist about it all, because I have never felt so much joy and peace in my entire life.

By: LeoPardus

LeoPardus — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:56:04 +0000

Joan:
I’m not sure what you mean by “never became liberal.”

I see, neither you nor Grace had anything about that. I must have had it in my mind from something else I’d just read. It is a fairly common thing though for de-cons to move to liberal Christianity before leaving altogether.

By: Joan Ball

Joan Ball — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:31:04 +0000

LeoPardis: I’m not sure what you mean by “never became liberal.”

By: SnugglyBuffalo

SnugglyBuffalo — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:43:29 +0000

I certainly didn’t have any negative experiences with Christianity. My choice to de-convert rests wholly in the fact that what I understand about Christianity does not line up with what I observe to be reality.

By: LeoPardus

LeoPardus — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:32:45 +0000

Getting back to comment on a couple things I noted earlier:

Looking at Joan’s pattern and some input from Grace, I thought I’d say that you two might find my background a bit different. … Adult convert to the faith. Positive experience. Serious convert to Eastern Orthodoxy. Never became liberal. I know you two were looking at generalities, and that’s good. Just wanted to point out at least one exception.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:55:47 +0000

This discussion is so interesting for me. I’ve never heard of a “De Convert” I’m am new to blogging, so that might explain it. The whole discussion makes me sad, it strikes a chord with me. I can “feel” your sense of loss…
I’m going to think more on this before I comment any further.

By: The de-Convert

The de-Convert — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:50:51 +0000

Rover,

BTW, here’s my attempt at showing how I came up with that “Teachings of Jesus” page. However, it’s yet another one of my in-complete projects (like the Literal Bible one):

http://thejesuscult.wordpress.com/posts/

Paul

By: Brad Feaker

Brad Feaker — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:44:29 +0000

Joan,

…many of the posts betray what I interpret to be sadness as a result of the perceived loss of faith. It may be wishful thinking on my part, but a number of the respondents still attend church and participate in ministry despite what they describe to be a sense of isolation and unbelief. It made me wonder who these people are and how their churches (and churches in general) tend to handle a person who is struggling with a perceived loss of faith?

For myself – I do not miss that part of my life at all anymore. I DO miss some of the people – but not faith or Christianity itself. And as for my experience leaving the church – I have heard from absolutely no one. Not one call or visit – like I have become a non-entity. As a (now) completely open and out atheist that reaction doesn’t really surprise me…apparently I am evil incarnate to those people now

Thanks for the post on your site…