2.3 Deconversion: Other Christians (Part 2)

I explain how I came to meet a true Christian who had deconverted and how I came to believe that I was at a different rational stage of development than some believers.

Books Mentioned:
Some Mistakes of Moses by Robert Ingersoll (written in 1880)

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Music:
"Voca Me" by Libera

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Category:

Education

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• atheist
• secular
• humanist
• deconversion
• conversion
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[yiuvince]

I am a medical doctor and a former christian. Your videos were so brilliantly done with very clear step wise structure and very logical.

Your experience really reminded me of my past struggles.

[TheBiAtheist]

2:25 "If I find the truth, I take it, bitter or not."

This is the difference between rationality and fundamentalism. I doubt either of us would be Atheists today if we only believed what stroked our own egos.

[KaineSpawnX]

"If I find the truth, I take it—bitter or not." That's reminiscent of a quote from Thomas Henry Huxley: "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."

[MordieSG]

Lols it's funny how only smart people snap out of that religion bullshit xD.

[onotix]

halaious



[Hibitrit]

So when it comes to the portions of the Bible consisting of miraculous things, or parts not making sense due to culture, time gaps, the change in translations, context, and pure age! A person who can't believe in something until every detail made sense, would struggle with this. Yet a person who can base everything on faith, that would be easy because they know what God is capable of. But they may lack knowledge and struggle with understanding even the simple concepts

[Hibitrit]

I found some Christians, who I thought were dunces, have acquired a strong spiritual knowledge and understanding of God through spiritual experience (possible in any religion). Knowledge and spirituality seem to appear as opposites because knowledge lessens one ability to rely on faith (vs self), and one can depend on spiritual experience to the extent that they do illogical things that not even the Bible would agree to.

[mancno1]

Well the guy was right about the religious debate being bad for your studies, I'm ment to be revising for the 4 exams I have this week but would rather watch this

[kelbykross1]

i always forget that the tower of babel is a just so story about why people in other parts of the world speak different languages.

like the stories of how the leopard got his spots, or how the elephant got his trunk,