I simply could not bring myself to sit on my backside in a church I didn't believe in any longer, and it is certainly not fair to you to continue to do so. I'm in the process of killing myself by suffocation, living in that closet. A confrontation is inevitable, but I am not looking forward to it. Since then of course I have come up with many many other reasons for my atheism, but I was wondering if others have had such sudden epiphanies along the road to becoming an ex-Christian. I'd always been told that life was pointless for non-Christians.
Life is fun, just because it's living.
My dad used to be a pastor, and was trained in seminary, so we have had some pretty heavy philosophical discussions on the subject in the past week. Outwardly, my parents don't seem to have taken it very hard. But I've noticed a few things, and my observant sister confirms that they are indeed deeply hurt, and don't want to show it. Well, life is going to be interesting for the next few months. I'm not exactly looking forward to seeing the reactions of the various friends and family members, but it should be an interesting psychological experiment, and will probably lead to lots of fun philosophical wranglings.