What happened to my Christianity
Tonight I was watching a video of James Loftus being interviewed on the Youtube channel TheThinkingAtheist. They were discussing how people get into religion and most are born into it, just like I was. Some are brought into it by a significant other. And folks stay in it because they like the community they're a part of. But to get out of it they agreed usually takes some kind of crisis based in that community which may involve shutting you out of the clique and this can shake up your faith enough to end it. And some others just reason their way out of faith. That got me thinking about my own end of faith. I thought I'd crank up this old blog and see if I could get the memories to flow and explain it to my own satisfaction. As I've looked back I have always thought (and said) that it was more of a reasoning method that got me off the Christianity train, but hearing this discussion sort of made me think that the crisis approach was involved as well. I was in the N