That’s what Bible college did for me!
The more you learn about your faith, the more you start to see the cracks. Either you retreat away from the cracks, or you question further and further until the facade breaks
Or you somehow separate it from reality to avoid any conflicts. I’ve heard there’s theists who say they believe the literal word and yet work in a science-based field that requires a total different point of view. They either co-exist with both or just go through the motions with one side.
Cognitive dissonance. I did it for years. Evolution and the rest were true and the Bible narrative was also true.
Roughly what I thought was that the Bible didn’t say any of that stuff happened on earth, it said it happened. Like a sorta bubble where all this weird talking snake stuff happened.
A lot less mental strain not having to think this way anymore.
Francis Collins is an excellent science administrator and also a young earth creationist. It’s wild, he talks about going to try to talk to his coreligionists about vaccines and they just tune him right out.
I want to know how many priests are actually closeted atheists. I’m sure at a certain point a good chunk of them wake up to the nonsense. However, they are now trained with a life skill and in a profession that has no use outside of the specific context of leading a parish, so they’re pretty much stuck unless they want to go back to square one in another field.
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There is the clergy project that tries to help them. I usually do a few big donations around Xmas and thinking of them this year.
I feel for them it could have easily been me.
Mother Theresa of Calcutta for one.
Watch Hells Angels. Her practices practically makes a sadist.
One of the last nails in the coffin for me was reading the Bible.
Reading about the Bible, the history of it, just convinced me even more that I was right to walk away.
Realizing that Christianity was essentially a religion commissioned by an emperor to consolidate his rule, then that the most common version today was commissioned by a king to consolidate his rule… Yeah, kind of makes you skeptical.
I always feel so out of place when this comes up. I didn’t deconvert from reading the Bible, I deconverted when it was literally beaten into me that religion doesn’t work.
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