I’ve started up a new series over at An American Atheist titled Deprogramming.
Just over three years ago I called up my pastor and asked if we could meet for lunch. Turned out we both had news for each other, so we got together the following week. I explained how my wife and I had decided to move to California. He explained how the church had grown to the point of being able to support us part-time. Needless to say it was a bittersweet conversation…
Now, at 30, I consider myself non-religious and I’m about two years into a major worldview overhaul. In the coming weeks I’ll touch on many of the factors that shed light on the state of cognitive dissonance from which I have been recently trying to break free.
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