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It was simply a "waking up" out of a state of denial: I finally became fully aware of, and acknowledged to myself, that so much of what I'd been taught by Christianity was self-contradictory and untenable and, in some regards, damaging. I haven't embraced any other religion so I guess I'd have to say I de-converted rather than that I converted.
It was simply a "waking up" out of a state of denial: I finally became fully aware of, and acknowledged to myself, that so much of what I'd been taught by Christianity was self-contradictory and untenable and, in some regards, damaging. I haven't embraced any other religion so I guess I'd have to say I de-converted rather than that I converted.
I was going to say something like this but I don't identify as a convert, but a deconvert, so really the OP is not interested in my response. And I'll be darned to heck (ha) if I'm going to open myself to specious claims that I have faith or a religious belief when in fact I have no faith and decline to believe religious ideation.
I was raised Methodist, but as an 8th grader all the very cool kids
were Catholic...go figure...so my older sis and I attended Religious Instruction and
were baptized Roman Catholic... woo-hoo...stained glass and incense, oh boy!
The highlight, however, was being confirmed, as a freshman now, by Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen...what a radiant man...I still can feel his hands...hadn't
done a day's work in his life!!!
Similar to a banker's....
Oh...and I'm not Catholic now...tho, it is said it is
'an indelible mark on your soul', yeah, right!!!
Too funny!
To anyone who's changed from one religion to another, why'd you do it? What made you want to convert and how'd you do about doing so?
I converted from Christianity to atheism spontaneously when I was 13 years old, for no better reason than it had become clear to me that Christian claims are too silly and full of holes to have any real validity. That was in 1961, and it would be years yet before I even met another atheist like myself. Now I am surrounded by non believing individuals. Believers don't like it, but non belief is rapidly becoming the next big thing.
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Oh...and I'm not Catholic now...tho, it is said it is
'an indelible mark on your soul', yeah, right!!!
Too funny!
My late father was from a Catholic family and when he married outside that faith became non-practicing and then later in life an evangelical protestant. His family however was convinced that it was a phase he was going through ... they were still convinced of this when he had been married 20, 30, 40 years ... the mantra I kept hearing was "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic".
It is sort of an inverse back-flip on the no-true-Scotsman, "you were never one of us" argument that has been deployed against me as a deconvert to atheism. It is just that rather than claiming that a former Catholic was a wolf in sheep's clothing all along, Catholics deny that the person changed into a wolf in the first place. In fact they even use the term "lapsed Catholic", never "former Catholic". I call it the Ploy of Inevitability.
I was raised Methodist, but as an 8th grader all the very cool kids
were Catholic...go figure...so my older sis and I attended Religious Instruction and
were baptized Roman Catholic... woo-hoo...stained glass and incense, oh boy!
The highlight, however, was being confirmed, as a freshman now, by Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen...what a radiant man...I still can feel his hands...hadn't
done a day's work in his life!!!
Similar to a banker's....
Oh...and I'm not Catholic now...tho, it is said it is
'an indelible mark on your soul', yeah, right!!!
Too funny!
Did that have something to do with the Bishop's hands?...
Did that have something to do with the Bishop's hands?...
Miss Hepburn was obviously never a young boy!
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