No, actually, I'm not terribly sorry.
You see, when I began my transition out of religion, it was all I could think about. It became an obsession of sorts and I needed an outlet for my thoughts. So I blogged about it. Something interesting happens over time though: once you start breaking down the walls of religion and faith-based reasoning, it isn't long before you're standing in an open field, no walls to be seen. The world becomes your oyster, whatever the hell that means. Knocking down walls is therapeutic. It feels good to free yourself from this voluntary captivity, and it's liberating. However, once you're liberated, there is little point in continuing to liberate yourself. So, quite simply, religion loses it's appeal. It failed to hold my attention any longer.
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| "I guess that cloud kind of looks god-shaped." |
Every argument from theists is more or less the same, or at least they all make the same sort of logical missteps that can only be struck down so many times before I get bored of playing whack-a-mole.
Oh, I can't prove God wrong? Well, the burden of proof isn't on me. You can't prove wrong the millions and millions of things I can make up, but that doesn't make them true.
Oh, God made your baby well again? Well, what's wrong with the doctors and all the human beings that you can actually see helping. It's easy to give credit to something with no measurable effect on the world if you don't care about proving it.
Oh, the universe has a beginning, and so does everything, therefore at some point you find God? Well, aside from the fact that you're assuming to know more about science than scientists, you're also ignorant of what a lot of cosmologists and astrophysicists tell us about pre-BigBang.
Oh, there's no evidence for Evolution? Yes, there is. End of argument.
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| "...Bitch" |
You see? It gets old pretty quick. You quickly begin to learn that life is much bigger, much broader than refuting religious silliness. If that's all there was, life would be more repetitive than an actual game of whack-a-mole. (It's so good, I used it twice)
So, over time, I've continued to grow, continue to learn, mature, yada yada yada, now I'm perfect. So, I was thinking that now I'm more or less through the deconversion process, I might channel my knowledge or insight, such as it is, back into the community. After all, there are plenty of people who are stuck in the middle or who have gone down a much different path from mine and still need someone to talk to or a place to find solace and like-minded thinkers.
Sure, there are plenty of websites that do this, but this is the only one that has me. So this is where I'll continue to post my own thoughts and discussions in an effort to help, in some small way, those of us who are still learning how to live in a world without religion.
This is really something of an experiment, so the more feedback I get from readers, the better.
As always, every opinion is up for debate, just keep it civil or I'll have no god smite you.
