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Three posts in a day - what the heck??
Real quick…if you guys haven’t visited the Leaving Eden blog yet, do so now. Leaving Eden is “an undercover [tag]Atheist [/tag]at a [tag]Christian college[/tag].”
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This post nearly floored me just now.
Sometimes I miss being a Christian. I don’t miss [tag]Christianity[/tag], but I miss being a part of this whole thing…
A small part of me wishes that I could have that much passion for something again. Being an atheist makes me at times exhilarated and happy. But you can’t have [tag]passion [/tag]and [tag]devotion [/tag]for nothing. I’m looking now for something to be passionate about, something to fall in love with. I guess I’m so used to that vacancy being filled by [tag]God[/tag], I don’t know how to have normal passions. It’s hard for such an entrenched Christian to learn how to be a normal person.
Wow.
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All these posts. Beware of burn out.
There are plenty of things to be passionate about without religion as I imagine there are with religion.
Hey I posted about Leaving Eden when you were on your trip, Bill! I beat you to it!
@Helen…
I’m still a young blogger. In time, perhaps I’ll be a big-timer like you
I knew you wouldn’t have time to read all the comments posted while you were away, but I thought you’d at least skim the posts themselves to see what people posted about
Ah well, I forgive you…I had better lead by example…
Deconversion is very, very hard. I’m very glad I avoided it and very glad I live in a relatively secular area.
Like Hover I have found many activies where I now feel passion and joy.
My experience with religion was as a young man. Since my experience was mostly a negative one I have felt more passion and joy since I left the church.
I was probably never a true believer so perhaps God never had a chance to work his magic. :d
Actually, I’ve found that there’s too much to fill the hole that used to be plugged up by religion. I am overflowing.
I’m much more excited about life than I used to be. I don’t miss anything about being a Christian or god one single bit. I’m very relieved. Even knowing that I’m going to die someday, I mean really die, lends an urgency to life. Sure, it sucks that the ride won’t last forever, but I prefer that stark reality to the kind of Heaven described vaguely in the Bible and other religious texts.
My experience with JC was mostly positive. But, like owning a black & white TV was great in the 50s not so great in the 80s, so it goes with religion. To my own surprise, I’m much happier. I thought I’d have to be a nihilist or something, but no, that’s not at all how it is.
hoverFrog wonders if perhaps religion is used as a reason to restrain oneself. To allow one’s passions to be directed to another being’s control.
hoverFrog wonders if perhaps religion is used as a reason to restrain oneself. To allow one’s passions to be directed to another being’s control.