Posted: Jan 25, 2011 8:05 am
Brain wrote:By now, I've given up on trying to deconvert Christians, but I wonder if anyone has successfully attempted to do so?
I never tried, but apparently I managed to a few times on RDF as I got PM's from a number of people who had started to question their faith.
The thing is that the label 'Christian' is really a very stretchy one. My mother identifies herself as a Christian, but she doesn't believe in the Christian myth, just a god concept that happened to first be introduced to her by the Christian culture she grew up in, and a set of morals that were hijacked by Christianity centuries ago and foisted off as possessed solely by them.
Someone like my mum is easy to deconvert from Christianity as she really only uses the label as a convenient term to state that she believes in some higher being. Decouple them, and she's not a Christian anymore.