Mine was probably when I relapsed towards religion at age 15-16 and joined my mom’s conservative megachurch, naïvely thinking I can convince them to be less bigoted and more “christ-like” as well as accept science
Mine was probably when I relapsed towards religion at age 15-16 and joined my mom’s conservative megachurch, naïvely thinking I can convince them to be less bigoted and more “christ-like” as well as accept science
Annoying atheist who tried to argue with religious people with Facts and Logic.
Did you become religious again or just a less annoying atheist?
The latter
Not Op but atheist who accepts that some people would actually be unhappy without religion.
Honestly sometimes I wish I could brainwash myself that effectively.
Not OP, but coming from the same place: less annoying (I hope!) atheist.
Same. At some point I became friends with pretty religious people who were also some of the most intelligent and nice people I had met. My beliefs that religious people are just dumb people who cannot understand the complexity of the real world kinda fell apart then.
I returned back to my pre-teen opinion, still an atheist but with compassion for other people’s beliefs. No need to constantly force my opinion into it or needlessly be a dick because we disagree. I’ve had many interesting discussions since then with very religious people. I still don’t fully get it, and to me it still reeks of indoctrination, but I’ve accepted that it’s fine to disagree.
oh lol. been there done that. finally learnt it’s never worth your time to try and change someone’s beliefs.