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To those who are still seeking, or for those who changed beliefs and settled into a new home, was there any "moment of truth" where you found your previous beliefs to be wrong? What was the catalyst for your change?
What was the catalyst for your change?
I don't agree that you can change your beliefs just your practice. So, I stopped practicing.
My cousin, who was an atheist, suggested it.Why did you decide to read this book?
Ya, several times with me.To those who are still seeking, or for those who changed beliefs and settled into a new home, was there any "moment of truth" where you found your previous beliefs to be wrong? What was the catalyst for your change?
No. Sorry but there was no single moment.To those who are still seeking, or for those who changed beliefs and settled into a new home, was there any "moment of truth" where you found your previous beliefs to be wrong?
I wandered into the right situations and my experiences accumulated. I was forced to become introspective. All I did was believe what I was told and did what I was told, but things did not work out as expected or as promised either.What was the catalyst for your change?
To those who are still seeking, or for those who changed beliefs and settled into a new home, was there any "moment of truth" where you found your previous beliefs to be wrong? What was the catalyst for your change?
Instead of seeking, it's more let your life unfold. Call what you learn and click with blessings, add them as part of your journey, and keep going. Learn from what you can, drop what stunts your growth.
To those who are still seeking, or for those who changed beliefs and settled into a new home, was there any "moment of truth" where you found your previous beliefs to be wrong? What was the catalyst for your change?
was there any "moment of truth" where you found your previous beliefs to be wrong? What was the catalyst for your change?
To those who are still seeking, or for those who changed beliefs and settled into a new home, was there any "moment of truth" where you found your previous beliefs to be wrong? What was the catalyst for your change?
Having been raised by cafeteria Catholics, as a child I attended mass on the Sunday's that mass didn't interrupt my parents' schedule and occasionally attended mass with my grandmother. I attended CCD weekly. I suppose the first hit Catholicism took with me was during a classroom discussion about what happens after death. I queried the nun teaching the class about what happens to animals other than humans when they pass. I was told that animals didn't have a soul and were not admitted into the Kingdom of Heaven. This belief was in conflict with what inherently made sense to me.
... This led into reading and thinking about what the nature of honesty really is, how to respond to questions we don't want to answer honestly, how causing pain to a loved one does not reflect the honesty of love for the person and so forth...
Im dyslexic, by age 14 i was sick to death, (literally, i was so depressed i thought of suicide) of the mockery and verbal abuse poured on my by "good" christians becaus i couldn't read the bible.
I left the church. Soon after i was diagnosed, tools were prescribed, i learn to read and became an avid devourer of books. Eventually i read the bible. Not as christianity would have you selectively read recommended verses but read it as written.
I learned why (some) christians are real nasty people and decided, if thats what the bible teaches i want no part of it.