Hi, I just now saw your post and want to commend you for it and your effort to live a more sane life in an ever increasing insane world, especially where it comes to religion. I had a little trouble understanding the double negative deconversion as you meant to use it. It doesn't matter, but at first it looked inaccurate to me but as long as we all know what you mean and support you. You're completely right about the blackmail. I grew up Catholic and from childhood I also saw it that way and never bought into that or any religion. It's as sinister as anything they try to scare you with about not believing in god and it''s weird how they don't see it and question their own motives, but they don't see so much about almost everything... hang in there. You have lots of friends here too.

ha well those were ppl, not Yah, right.
The Bible makes pretty clear that Yah does not care whether one “believes” in Him or not; the only personal judgement is for works

It is something how illogical atheist Richard Dawkins "nailed " Jesus character. The "son of meme". Or to say a meme virus organism that evolved into Jesus character. The mind virus organism has its cognition capability to blackmail, brain wash and what ever else to use peoples brains as a spawning ground to reproduce more mind virus organisms in people's brains. The mind virus organism has such cognition capability that it can very well out smart some people or place them in fear of their life.

Doesn’t matter how long it took you to change…….what always matters is the end result. When your told something over and over again when your growing up, roughly ages 5 to 12, 13, it eventually becomes a part of you, and like with quitting smoking, drinking or other drugs it takes enormous willpower to change it. I will always point out it took me 9 years after quitting going to Sunday mass brainwashing to declare myself a full Atheist, and that was after I had quit smoking 3 packs of cigs a day as well as being a heavy drinker and other drugs along the way.

The more you open your eyes, the more you’ll see….

The moment you stop believing in god, jesus, hell and sin, you will have freedom in your life.

how do u know he was uneducated and why were u so quick to assume that if u didnt make the snap decision, then u would have an accident on the way home and die?

jeesh!

im curious about how old u were at this time cuz that stuff seems immature to me

Congrats and welcome here.

The christian god is kind of a jerk

Insecurity. Pure and simple. This is why we Jews are so fucked up.

The notion of the Christian God has been exploited for millenia by megalomaniacs, psychopaths and other misfits for the subjugation of the populace.

My understanding is that there is no Hell in the Jewish mythology, it is merely a Christian invention.

It takes only a moment of study of comparative religion to see the absurdity of all religious claims.

Uneducated preachers exploit their unjustified positions of authority to ram their lies down the throats of those who still learning about the world. Such people should be put into an asylum for the mentally ill until they learn the errors of their ways and make amends.

Welcome

I hope you are enjoying your new emotional freedom! Unfortunately, xtians are all about emotional blackmail, wicked (and unreasonable) threats, cultural ego and peer pressure, which affected many of us in our youth. It's the ones who buy-in as adults that worry me!

You have a lot to work out, and you joined the right group that can help you.

Your question shows your maturity. Somewhere along the way, you learned to reason. Bravo.

Deconversion? How about just coming to the realization?

"...why would 'he' resort to emotional blackmail....." Because man created god. That is why.