Raised protestant Christian. What made me leave the religion: 1. debating a militant atheist who asked questions I couldn’t answer 2. textual criticism and apologetics classes I took during my biblical studies course 3. intellectual curiosity. that sounds conceited but you do have to have some form of it to question everything you have been taught up until then.
what happened next is not very exciting. I worked up the courage to tell my mom and the church, stopped attending church services, and had a second puberty of sorts (many such cases!). I’m on good terms with everyone in my family, they respect my position and I respect theirs. No coercion of any kind.
I’d call myself agnostic today. I don’t 100% with absolute certainty rule out the possibility that there might be a higher power after all, but I live my daily life as if there isn’t any.
Raised protestant Christian. What made me leave the religion: 1. debating a militant atheist who asked questions I couldn’t answer 2. textual criticism and apologetics classes I took during my biblical studies course 3. intellectual curiosity. that sounds conceited but you do have to have some form of it to question everything you have been taught up until then.
what happened next is not very exciting. I worked up the courage to tell my mom and the church, stopped attending church services, and had a second puberty of sorts (many such cases!). I’m on good terms with everyone in my family, they respect my position and I respect theirs. No coercion of any kind.
I’d call myself agnostic today. I don’t 100% with absolute certainty rule out the possibility that there might be a higher power after all, but I live my daily life as if there isn’t any.
What kind of questions did the militant athiest ask that you couldn’t answer
Hopefully something terribly comedic, like: could god make his vagina so small that he couldn’t make a penis small enough to enter it?
I think yes