Leaving Evangelical Christianity - An Intro

You have shared the Truth about evangelical christianity so eloquently: "It's all fear-based; it's not based on love. Love is more of a cover for the fear."

Once you realize the trauma religion gives you, it's an awakening..

Every deconversion story I've ever heard goes essentially the same way, "I started thinking and asking questions, and pretty soon everything I'd been taught as a Christian seemed wrong."

Great Video. Very honest. I’m 18 years old realizing how brainwashed I am. This video is helping me process how I am feeling :) thank you

I've left Christianity, after years reading the bible I acknowledged the many inconscistencies in the bible and the whole process began...and I notice how fear based is the whole thing, like imagine some visions of Hell like Dante's or Augustine's, it is simply the worst thing imaginable that can happen to someone

"it's based on fear it's not based on love. Love is more of a cover for the fear-base. Because fear is a strong motivator. And that's how you stay with those views because if you go against that, if you start questioning, then the fear will keep you there." --- perfectly stated.

Reading the Bible help me deconvert.

When you talked about how freeing it is to not be locked into the rigid mindset of Christianity it really hit home for me. If I could sum up my de-conversion in one word it would be ‘liberating.’

Critical thinking is so underrated.

.After listening to your story, and in light of the fact that you are from Arkansas, my guess is that you were of the Church of Christ faith, as I was. You hit the nail on the head when you said Christianity was fear-based, which is a huge motivator. (If you can't be persuaded by the message, then they throw a little terrorism into the equation to convince you.) As a child, I was horrified about going to hell, not just for myself, but for the people I loved, and was haunted by the burning forever and ever, because a mere couple of years of "the wailing and gnashing of teeth" wouldn't have been enough punishment. People, it is not a good idea to tell your children that they are BAD or sinful, or were born BAD, and that if they don't believe in Jesus, they will go to hell and burn for all eternity. I was a sensitive and serious kid. Christian dogma like this marred my childhood. It was a huge problem I didn't know how to deal with. I suffered needlessly over this. Thanks, young lady, for sharing your deconversion. Best of luck and happiness to you! My deconversion was back in 1974. Good riddance! I've never looked back!

Thanks for sharing! I’m currently a Christian minister and don’t believe anymore. I have been training for a new profession for about a year now and am so thankful to hear echos of my own story in other people’s journeys.

There is no hate like the kind called "Evangelical Christian love."

This is excellent, Dee! Thank you. It was a 7-year journey for me to extract myself from a fundamental Christian church. For me, it took accepting myself for being gay. At that moment in time, I got a gift. I was able to simultaneously embrace my lesbian orientation, while letting go of the Bible. I’ll never forget the moments of revelation standing their in my non-air conditioned living room in the middle of July. When I let go of the Bible, it felt like chains falling from me. I never looked back. It was complete freedom from the fear-based stuff I had been indoctrinated to believe for 24 years prior. So few of us make it out. It’s truly a wonder when people can walk away from religion.

Open-mindedness + Humbleness + Ability to Reason = Quality Person You will do well in this life.

Meeting other people who's life was fine from all different backgrounds was a huge clue for me as well before I deconverted

Leaving evangelical Christianity was the best decision I've ever made. I'm happy you made it out! Have a lovely life! Take care :)

The fear is real. My reconversion took about 4 years, and it was a painful process, realizing all of the things that didn't line up and recognizing the amount of control exerted in Evangelical Christianity. I completely identify with the freedom that not living in religion brings! I still struggle with the fear sometimes, not raising my kid to be Christian, sometimes I worry about the hell thing. Then I remind myself that if God is that way, There is NO way I am wasting my life and breath serving and praising someone who is that cruel and callous.

Hi Dee! I can relate to nearly everything in this story. I deconverted from evangelical Christianity (Pentecostal) over the last year. I also did missions work in Scotland and England and was rattled by their “secular attitude”. Happy for you that you found your way out as well!

I can relate to this. Happened so similarly to me! I was trying to reach people for Christ but they politely told me their reasoning for rejecting the Christian faith. If they hadn't been so kind and sincere, I wouldn't have listened. Over several months, or maybe over a year, I de-converted. It was difficult, yet impossible not to.

I lost my faith when I was 15, because my whole worldview was based on the personal experiences of myself and other people in my religion. I was questioning beforehand, but hearing the personal experiences of other people who were just as devout as me loosing their religion was what made me completely stop believing. It wasn’t as hard or scary as I thought, I just stopped one day. I always thought I would be depressed or feel like there was a missing part of my soul, but it’s been a year and I don’t feel that. Thank you for sharing your story