ex-christian: how did your life change after you deconvert?

Answer 1

I didnt deconvert. But i think that you shouldnt........better gain everything and loose nothing then to loose everything and gain nothing

Answer 2

After I became Pagan my life became so amazingly wonderful. I am in control of my life, I can change the bad things in my life. I felt more at peace. I have never been happier than I am now. I have a deeper connection with nature, my spirit and all the lives I've lived before this one. I would never go back to how I was.

Answer 3

It was as if the biggest boulder was lifted off my shoulders. I felt the most freedom I have ever felt in my life. I found religion to be so constraining and I wanted out.

When I finally considered atheism and found myself convinced that God does not exist, I could not get a smile off my face for days.

I immediately started living my life the way I wanted to live my life without worrying what God was going to think. I started living more freely. I began to live everyday to it's fullest finally realizing this is the only life I will ever have.

Answer 4

Easily.

First get the following out of your head:
-- You don't need "absolute" morality to be a caring good member of society
- You can still have a conscience even without a god
- You can accept people believing wierd things as long as
they dont impose them on you

Hard part
-- After life? That's scary.

Answer 5

Whoa, this is crazy. I am glad you asked this because I feel that I'm in the same place. But really just a lot of questioning has been taking place. And it's strange, I feel really uncertain on a lot of things, yet relenquished at the same time. I now see the world around me for what it is, rather than what someone has told me it should be. Good luck!

Answer 6

Deconvert? Convert means to change. How can one change but not change? It seems like a different kind of conversion, but nonetheless a conversion to non-Christianity.

Anyway, I left the church behind. That was the biggest change. I miss the community, but not the cognitive disconnects.

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Answer 7

I took more responsibility for my actions; created change in my life instead of waiting on the "will of god."

I opened up my mind to concepts that I previously would have disregarded because a person of Christian authority had told me I must.

I saw gay people as *people* and not abominations.

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Answer 8

I now have Sunday mornings free. I have no burden of guilt. I have no remorse. I think the Jews are nothing special. The bible now makes a wonderful doorstop. Rosary beades are fun toys for my cat. I laugh at the Salvation Army beggers. I set the dogs on Jehovah Witlesses and the Morons.

Answer 9

While living with my parents i was a fairly strong christian, but always miserable because of this. i was always depressed, but because of that my writing was was positivley affected. I moved out at 18 and i havn't de-converted as you say, but i know longer worship or consider myself a christian. i'm happier now, very rarely deppressed, and because of that, my writing has been affected, i write less and poorly, in my opinion.
I often consider going back to church, but i hate the idea of all the hypocrisy and close-mindedness. i don't want to be caught up in that again.

Answer 10

I was never a believer (never raised as one, nor as a non-believer - that's Britian for you). But being a fully confirmed atheist enabled me to watch the 700 Club and Benny Hinn Ministries (we had satellite) for pure entertainment. I could watch that for hours!

Answer 11

I didn't become an atheist or agnostic, but I did become a lot happier and, I think, a better person in how I treated others and how I handled situations.