The Fall : An epilogue on the De-conversion of Anthony
An epilogue on the D-conversion of Anthony When I begun this series, I wanted to explain why I was no longer a Christian. I was almost angry that I’d spent so much time in a fantasy, a coping mechanism that simplified the universe into something a Heavenly Father had created.
As you read the series, it’s probably the case that you sensed this anger amidst the rhetoric and logical argumentation. Anger is not always rage, but can be an ember of passion that begins to change the temperature of everything around it.
Anger is also usually a less embarrassing face that we put on emotions we don’t want to admit to having-fear, envy, abandonment. 10 years on from when I first started the draft of the first entry into this series -I think that anger is gone because I have finally accepted it.
My perspectives have changed on faith and religion. Auguste Comte(see image below) wrote about the three stages of development being the theological, the metaphysical and then the p