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Former religious lemmings, what made you quit religion or stop being a believer? (endlesstalk.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty recently.

When the majority of people I grew up respecting decided to use their religion as an excuse to participate in or support a terrorist attack, a lot of things started unraveling pretty quickly. Turns out none of them actually cared about what Jesus wanted, but rather what that news station said.

With so many of my old friends and church leaders telling me hate was the answer, the cognitive dissonance didn't have any ground to stand on anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I’m really glad you were able to get out of that. And I hope that you’ve found a better community.