The truth caused a mind shift that led me straight out of Christianity - Brandon

Today I spoke with Brandon, who grew up in a Christian environment, believed in and loved Jesus, memorized large portions of the Bible, and wanted to make his life count for eternity ... until his search for the truth caused a mind shift that ultimately led to his deconversion from Christianity.

We discussed many topics, including:

• Seeing the cognitive dissonance of Christians who were compelled to share the Gospel but the majority actually lived as if the mundane details of their lives here were the main focus.
• Memorizing thousands of verses for Bible quizzing and passionately reading the Bible to know the Yahweh character better.
• Realizing the depths of the indoctrination that occurred during his childhood.
• Experiencing his parents' mixed-faith marriage, and then later facing his own mixed-faith marriage.
• Admitting, as a Christian, that it seemed like god was hiding, but how that drove him to pursue god even more.
• Hearing a leader in church prophesy that he, Brandon, would do signs and wonders for the Lord.
• How Christian guilt and shame puts people into a mindset of constantly second guessing themselves.
• Facing the purity culture message that sexual sin is the worst possible sin, in the context of the preachments that the body is beautiful, that god designed sex, that it is better to marry than to burn in lust, and yet that a godly person does not focus on sex and eroticism.
• Feeling like you're never doing enough for the Lord, especially in the area of evangelism.
• The emotional process of preparing to respectfully share our reasons for deconversion with our Christian spouses yet knowing that they may respond with fear and anger and perhaps start to punish us as retribution.
• Dealing with the existential dread of losing the afterlife but realizing that living for eternity, even in heaven, would actually be torture.
• Working through how to protect children from a mythological worldview and the psychological abuses of Christianity in the context of an "unequally yoked" marriage.
• The importance of pursuing the truth, no matter where it leads, even if it strongly challenges our current worldview.

Thanks to Brandon for sharing his story!


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Ending music by Eyal Raz, "Friends"

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