The Truth About Deconstructing: Why People Are Walking Away

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  @dotherightthingatalltimes · 3 weeks ago (edited) · pinned

  The moment you are born, you’re given a name, a religion, a nationality, a race.<br><br>Yet your soul carries none of these.<br><br>You spend a lifetime defending identities you didn’t choose, forgetting who you were before them. Author Unknown

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  @IamEssence87 · 3 weeks ago

  Someone said “The devil left me alone when I left Christianity”. I felt that in my soul.

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  @idreadFell365 · 3 weeks ago

  Deconstruction was relief

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  @DarqueSyde66 · 3 weeks ago

  The exact moment I found out Santa wasn’t real, I knew I was being lied to about EVERYTHING.

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  @vidhead85 · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  I started deconstructing over LGBTQ+ issues. How can someone saying they&apos;re called to love everyone be so hateful?! <br><br>How can they tell blantant lies and claim to &quot;speak the truth in love?&quot; <br><br>Additionally, I didn&apos;t think God was a good guy and if he &nbsp;was a person, I wouldn&apos;t want to be around them. <br><br>It was an awakening when someone said &quot;Even if God DID exist, I wouldn&apos;t like him&quot; &nbsp;that finally gave me permission to just remove that god as a reverent figure &nbsp;<br><br>Full on atheist here.

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  @KeetWeet · 3 weeks ago

  As a child (ages 9-11) I told my mama I really didn&apos;t believe in religion/god etc. I never heard no one speak against. It was just in me not to agree. Well, like typical black parents, they tell you to shut up and not question god. So, I shut up and went along with the program. I went from Christianity to Hebrew Israelites. Then I walked away from it all in 2016. I couldn&apos;t no longer go along with it anymore. I&apos;ve never been at more peace than I am since walking away. NO CHURCH HURT, I simply used COMMON SENSE and LOGIC. I know we didn&apos;t just come from nowhere, but we don&apos;t know how we came to be either. I feel more spiritually connected to the energy within. To each its own, just don&apos;t force your beliefs on anyone else.

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  @virtuousceolady6091 · 3 weeks ago

  I deconstructed and feel great about it. I don&apos;t have any church hurt or trauma. I just came to the realization that this religion is all a fantasy and was never meant to be taken literally.

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  @yippieskippy2971 · 3 weeks ago

  The labor theft of it all came as a facepalm moment for me. Patriarchy hurts everyone

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  @ladyflem5727 · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  I remember being a young Christian (20s) that when people would tell me they didn’t believe in god, I would be like, OMG how could you not and trying to convert them. Ish was crazy looking back. Now here I am, an agnostic old ahhh lady (38). So funny to me looking back how I viewed people because of their beliefs bc I was taught that there was only one way to walk in life.

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  @ladyflem5727 · 3 weeks ago

  Someone challenged me once about religion and it opened my eyes. Me moving away from my small hometown where everyone thought the same really opened my eyes. I began to question things and just felt like things I once believed in just did not make sense to me. <br><br>I say challenged, but really it was just them expressing why they were no longer Christian and how they got to that point.

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  @ladyflem5727 · 3 weeks ago

  The grief I experienced was with my parents. They felt like I was the devil and was going to hell. They would always say, you can believe what you want but when it’s all said and done … basically casting me to hell 😂 I can laugh now, but as it was happening it was not a good feeling to be rejected by them.

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  @softbutterfly_xoxo · 3 weeks ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGfhExa0X9o&amp;t=844">14:04</a> This is so true and so powerful!! It was the fear of hell that kept me in the faith. But like she said, once I deconstructed that, I was able to leave Christianity and find a spiritual path that works for me.

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