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Thanks for checking out When Belief Dies!

My name is Sam and I am in my early 30’s. I live in the North of England, I am married and have two beautiful boys.

I was born into a Christian family and have classed myself as a Christian for most of my life. I have attended a pentecostal Bible college and have been involved with church leadership for a good few years.

In 2017, I started to have some serious doubts around my religious beliefs. Through the process of investigating my beliefs, I have been doing a lot of reading, listening and writing.

I stepped down from church leadership in Dec 2019.

This is a blog tracking my deconversion as openly and honestly as possible. I have been writing it for a while but only started publishing the posts on the 1st of January 2020.

If you want some of the back story, please check out the following post.

I hope you will enjoy reading my story and please do subscribe so that you don’t miss any posts in the future.

A new post is published every Saturday at 9am (UK).

-Sam

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Those Who Went Before ⁠ It has taken me a while to realise that with everything I am going through, someone else will have been on a similar journey. ⁠ Head to whenbeliefdies.com to read the latest blog post (link in my bio)⁠ 💪 ⁠ #blog #wordpress #honest #journey #life #agnostic #atheist #atheism #atheistcommunity #skeptic #humanist #godless #nogod #noreligion #blogger #blogcommunity #bloggercommunity #bloggersofinstagram #bloggerlife #blogging #blogpost #bloglife #writing #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writter #wordsmith #journal #doubt #exvangelical

Far to often humanity clings to what it hopes is true and pushes on, rather than observing what is actually true and moving forwards from there. It has taken us so very long to get to a place where we are comfortable enough as people to not have any 'complete' answers, but rather live 'as if' things are defined and complete. For example, until Charles Darwin delivered his 'The Origin of Species' people legitimately thought that a God created their first ancestor from thin air and/or dust. Today, our best guess, albeit with a lot of evidence to back it up, is that we came about due to evolution via natural selection. We strongly believe this is 'true', but we allow enough space to readjust our hypothesis if needed. Claiming something is 'true' without any evidence that you can critically examine is a dangerous way to live your life. Also - enjoy this picture of a 🐖

A Shifting Landscape of Despair ⁠ As the colossal’s relentless crushing presence invades... ⁠ Head to whenbeliefdies.com to read the latest blog post (link in my bio)⁠ ✌️ ⁠ #blog #wordpress #honest #journey #life #agnostic #atheist #atheism #atheistcommunity #skeptic #humanist #godless #nogod #noreligion #blogger #blogcommunity #bloggercommunity #bloggersofinstagram #bloggerlife #blogging #blogpost #bloglife #writing #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writter #wordsmith #journal #doubt #exvangelical

What proof is there that God smiles at us, that God loves us, that God wants a relationship with us or that God desires worship from us? Other than the Bible, which is the very collection of books that claims these things (possibly not the smile thing, that is a bit strange), there is nothing that proves these things. How do we disprove that God isn't made up? That we don't just want Hope because it's dark here and we put these 'facts' about God to ourselves and our children because they grant us enough peace to get through the night. I am sorry... but we can't. I refuse to build a life on a easily refutable hope, and I can't force myself to have faith.

Some Guiding Hand ⁠ All I ask of myself is that I don’t cling to faith because I don’t know the answers to the most challenging questions within our world. ⁠ Head to whenbeliefdies.com to read the latest blog post (link in my bio)⁠ 💀 ⁠ #blog #wordpress #honest #journey #god #life #agnostic #atheist #atheism #atheistcommunity #skeptic #humanist #godless #nogod #noreligion #blogger #blogcommunity #bloggercommunity #bloggersofinstagram #bloggerlife #blogging #blogpost #bloglife #writing #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writter #wordsmith #journal #doubt

Discoveries like 'homo sediba' or 'homo naledi' shake the foundation upon which Christianity and any other man-made religions are built. These cousins of ours have ceased to exist, and they force us to stare the possibly bleak reality that we, 'homo sapiens', will also one day become extinct. We are not created in the image of God unless God isn't quite sure what He looks like and needs to keep wiping out the previous versions He made to eventually get it right in us, humans. We are not created special, we do not deserve to rule this planet and we have a responsibility, as we are aware of the consequences of the steps we are taking that affect the Earth. We need to protect what is left of the planet we have been 'given'.

We glance back⁠ ⁠ I couldn’t force belief, forced belief isn’t belief, it's lying.⁠ ⁠ Head to whenbeliefdies.com to read the latest blog post (link in my bio)⁠ 🤘⁠ ⁠ #blog #wordpress #honest #journey #god #life #agnostic #atheist #atheism #atheistcommunity #skeptic #humanist #godless #nogod #noreligion #blogger #blogcommunity #bloggercommunity #bloggersofinstagram #bloggerlife #blogging #blogpost #bloglife #writing #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writter #wordsmith #journal #doubt

I used to fully believe that this life was a testing ground, a staging area for us to fully understand who we were and to decide if we were going to follow God, or chose our own way instead of His. Over the past couple of years, I have shed my belief in God, much as a snake sheds its skin. Coming to the realisation that there isn't enough evidence to show a God exists, rather we have hope and emotion, which we mould and place into the faith gap required to believe something you can't evidence as true. Telling people that this life isn't what it is all about and that the next life is what we are striving for is precisely the sort of dogmatic nonsense and religious propaganda that encouraged educated men to fly planes at 590mph into the twin towers in 2001. It costs lives. Sam Harris explains why this sort of faith is deadly in his book 'End of Faith'. Just because a standard conservative Christian might not harbor terrorism in their hearts, doesn't mean that their unfounded beliefs can't turn into the fuel that can be ignited when we rely on our supernatural hopes, before we rely on the evidence that we see around us.

A problem of purpose⁠ ⁠ Our purpose is vital to our existence. We need to know ‘why’ in order to know ‘how’ we are to live.⁠ ⁠ Head to whenbeliefdies.com to read the latest blog post (link in my bio)⁠ 😆⁠ ⁠ #blog #wordpress #honest #journey #god #life #agnostic #atheist #atheism #atheistcommunity #skeptic #humanist #godless #nogod #noreligion #blogger #blogcommunity #bloggercommunity #bloggersofinstagram #bloggerlife #blogging #blogpost #bloglife #writing #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #writter #wordsmith #journal #doubt

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