Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

The older I get, the more I miss my belief in afterlife. I don't miss the lies, delusion, fear, servitude, extortion, hypocrisy, ignorance..

This is something I've never had to adjust to (always atheist), and I wonder if it's a psychological barrier to unbelief?

I wondered. It's such a revolutionary shift in world view.

The journey back to reason can be tough, long & lonely. Some of us lose our families, communities, entire support systems.

Too many have faced that challenge. Its interesting that the faithful hear the logic from their families, but persist in the belief.

I think that largely depends of age, age when indoctrinated, education/experience, how enmeshed w/ a church body/other reinforcing factors.