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Originally Posted by MarcBee
I quit (over period of another cautious 10 years) only after I couldn't believe, based mostly on results of reading the bible (and about the bible) more deeply than what preachers, Sunday school, and Wednesday evening church classes fed me. IOW, I quit for intellectual reasons,
if the person is ready to think critically, which most believers are not (almost by definition.)
Without my god glasses on, it's so clear how deluded I was for 30 years--to have believed so much with such poor evidence. Emotional neediness does that to a person.
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That is right you quit, but do you realize that people have quit not believing after reading the Bible, former atheists have given the same reason you have given, so it works both ways.
You say that you quit for intellectual reasons, really?
pardon to be skeptical about your reasons, but I know plenty of intellectuals who are believers, (I know of one who is a nuclear scientist) and it doesn't conflict with their intellect.
What do you consider thinking critically? In other words you basically equate belief with not thinking critically, isn't that an uncritical way of thinking?
You have a right to feel that you were deluded, that is your right, but saying that there is poor evidence does not compute, for there are tons of archeological and textual evidence for the Bible, there is more evidence for belief in Christianity than for anything else in real history, so I do not buy the poor evidence argument.
Emotional neediness? well we humans are emotional, it is part of our make up, we get angry, happy, sad, depressed, and all the other range of emotions.
We all are emotionally needy, it is just a matter of how we decide to fill that emotional need. Some fill their emotional need thru church activities while others do it through other means.
I have no problem feeding my emotional neediness thru God and my family.