2.5 Deconversion: Personal Relationship (Part 1)

I explain how I was raised to see God in everything, how I came to believe I had a personal relationship with him, and how I began to enter a personal crisis in college when that relationship started failing and feeling distant and confused.

All excerpts used in this video are either copyright-free or covered under "fair use" in Title 17 § 107 of the USC.

Music:
"Recordare" by Libera

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• God
• Christian
• atheist
• secular
• humanist
• deconversion
• conversion
• saved
• baptism
• Bible
• holy
• spirit
• pentecostal
• assemblies
• of
• god

[gaums]

@RachelS22287 I used to think like you until I had a child. Let me ask you this: If you had a son, would you tell him that he is supposed to be completely dependent on you? Would you tell him that everything he does is because it should please you? Would you tell him that if he did not please you, you would TORTURE him for ETERNITY? How would your son feel? How would other people feel about what you are telling your son?

[prezoftheworld]

If this series had more views, the world would be a better place.

[SobolewskiKing]

@JohnnyKidder .......you might want to have the professor's resume and knowledge base before doing that.......

[thespacemonk]

Fantastic. Very brave to share.

[JohnnyKidder]

Conclusion: Trolling the internet can truly open peoples minds. Just like the professor did in his amazon review commentary

[grsadr]

Was that you at 4:00

[kittyloaf]

So it looks like youve looked at it from a religious and then historical perspective, but have you ever looked at some of the things you said from a psychological perspective?

IE look at cognitive biases, reasons why people have beliefs, why they are hard to change.

Debating the professor to harden your convictions == backfire effect.

Confirmation bias from praying.

Etc etc

[flatulentperdition]

i like how he compared his intellectual growth with speaking to atheists. i debate with many christians and they admit that arguing with me ends up making them more aware and knowledgeable, but truth be told, talking to them just makes me feel more stupid because I have to drop my rational to meet their low-level thoughts.

[GapWim]

@Raymond0412Tube

“YOU ARE WAAAY TOO SIMILAR TO ME!! ARE YOU MY FUTURE SELF OR SOMETHING?? I TRIED TO MAKE A VIDEO GAME FOR GOD!! I WENT FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE!! AND I SEEK KNOWLEDGE!! WTH??”

You have made a wise decision to seek knowledge. It doesn’t matter if you’re religious, non-religious, young or old, it remains a nobel quest. This is not an easy task, as a first step you can perhaps take an easier quest … buy a new caps-lock key.

[mancno1]

@upisoft2 I don't know if christians experience DID when I was one I never had a "personal relationship." or even thought I did. but I sometimes felt very happy in worship so presumed it was god but when I realised I felt exactly the same on christmas morning it kind of lost that supernatural feeling. But we used to have prophecy assemblys before lunch when I went to school and most of them tended to contain food, one even had pizza in it (cheese, tomato and base were the 3 forms of god!!)

[nickfranky]

Powerful story.... great narration bro