An Eager College Student Troubled With Making Sense of It All — How I Left Christianity (Pt. 5)

I recently wrote a post where I detail my journey from Christianity and a lot of people benefited from it. So, I thought I’d write a more detailed account in the form of a series.

This is the fifth part of the series. If you would like to catch up and read the first post, here’s a link. Here is the link to the fourth post in this series.

Thus far, I traveled from Slovakia to Canada to study abroad at the age of 16 and am on my way to the South Coast of England, to Portsmouth, where I would stay for eight months until I moved to the greenery and old masonry of Oxford.

Here, I detail my trip from Oxford back to the West Coast of Canada, now as an unbeliever, reckoning with what was my initial nihilism of disbelief in a newfound atheist.

The Kelowna Valley with its defining wine. Photo by Kym Ellis on Unsplash

My time in Oxford was a dream, and I have been back many times since. But at the time, I saw that I had no future there. I wasn’t enrolled in school and worked at a job that wasn’t bringing me fulfillment.

I was increasingly wasting my time. I did not know where to go. It could not be Slovakia, I thought. So, I put my fingers on a place that I missed the most, the wonderful valleys of the Okanagan.