2.0 Deconversion: The God Concept

The concept of God, while having the appearance of being a single, coherent belief is often actually supported by multiple pillars of intertwined sub-beliefs. I give an overview of some of the most important sub-beliefs for my personal conception of God here. I will detail how at least most of these sub-beliefs fell for me, under the weight of logic and evidence, in later videos.

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Music:
"Deus" by Electric Skychurch

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[spontaneityis]

Logical arguments and debates killed my faith, honestly. I love to debate, and I also studied the bible like a mad woman for years. The argument of Freedom of Choice was my big thing. If God gave all humans freedom of choice, then how are we on a set path designed by him? Wouldn't that cancel itself out? No one ever had an answer for me that wasn't completely jaded.

[cgibbard]

YouTube's new silly time-bar now covers up your in-video link annotations at the bottom whenever I try to mouse over them to click. If you're bored, you might want to move them at some point.

[wetyewruyrtsutrdhjfg]

Thanks for posting these. I'm an atheist too, and I find religion somewhat hard to believe in. Have always had serious doubts Your posting of these videos might help in understanding the viewpoint from a believer's angle.

I'm sure others will find these useful too, and judging from the number of viewers, they probably have.

[MyMusiclover28]

@spontaneityis

That is EXACTLY what I was arguing the other day. That argument is a faith-killer...what about this one? If God knows EVERYTHING (including the path we are going to choose because it was chosen by him, yikes!) why does he get so angry when we do what we do? (i.e. Adam and Eve) If God knows what people will do, why does he punish them when they do? Why does he get so angry and lash out when he already knew what would happen? haha... this is a maze now. I hope u get my drift...lol

[valentre]

Poor use of Electric Skychurch. A shame, really.

[daosmoke]

EVID3NC3, you should be a professor/ and or public speaker. your mental coordination is sound, and is each one of your videos has demonstrated this. thanks mate.

[bigglyguy]

@mumblejunkie Didn't want to be worshiped? The first 3 of those "10 little guides" are demanding exactly that, and there ARE species of monkey native to China. As for why so much variation of life, that actually is an argument against God. If God created this world for us, why create parasites on fish that never normally come anywhere near a fisherman's nets? Such massive diversity is evidence of random mutation and natural selection, not some designer who designed 50,000 species of beetle

[Kivahut]

Wow. I am so touched, and so humbled by your story. Mine is similar, but not as deep. Thank you.

[1nstrument]

@spontaneityis I also have trouble with this concept. For example, if somebody had to betray Jesus because of some OT prophecy, then why was Judas at fault for choosing to do so? Absolutely the only explanation I can think of is that if Judas hadn't chosen to do so, the prophecy would not have been made. Let's say there's a God who can observe the totality of time. Then our choices would be foreknown, and thus predestined: there is no other possibility for us except to follow our choices (?)

[mrstewartosborne]

I spent six hours yesterday watching your video series (I watched it twice). I had never seen the information presented so well and thoroughly. While I wasn't familiar with all the concepts, I found it a great place to start in educating myself. Personally, I think it takes a lot of courage to have made this and was thinking it would be a fantastic feature film. I shared the video with my Christian questioning boyfriend. I am looking forward to discussing his reaction. In short, thank you.

[freakstupid11]

where do you find your music..cause theyre awesome..

[mumblejunkie]

@spontaneityis Logic cannot answer why the universe was created, or why there is so much varied and beautiful life on this planet. I have still to see a chinese or japanese looking monkey (Darwin), and where is the scientific proof that we were not created? Some of us are born free, others not so. Men kill men, the almighty leaves it to us to make a choice. 10 little guides to be a good person, the almighty did not want to be worshipped. You may have lost faith-he believes in us