Why Christianity Doesn’t Make Sense — Four Reasons I Left Christianity
It took me a long time to leave my beliefs. I left Christianity at the age of nineteen, after years of fervent conviction.
But I never want to tell you what to think. I want to reflect on my own journey. Hopefully, you will be able to gain something from it. But that doesn’t mean that I want you to think like me. Actually, I’d love for you to keep your beliefs.
Ultimately, I left Christianity because of my great respect for the weight of evidence. It takes a lot to justify our views. It takes years of practice to learn how to study evidence, discern what is good empiricism, and know to what extent we ought to judge our own views.
The fervency of my youth and strong commitments to religion were undercut by skepticism and a proclivity to doubt myself.
Let me explain.
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.”
— Bertrand Russell
1. The Evidence
Very few — if any — people are persuaded by evidence, especially when it comes to religion.
