Philosophy, Ethics, Atheism, Nietzsche
December 1997-May 1999 On December 8, 1997, my two closest philosophy major friends and I found ourselves utterly dismantling our Christian beliefs. As we went over all the possible reasons to doubt the faith, we found we simply did not have it in us to spin things favorably that night. We saw immense problems with rationally [...]
When I was a devoutly Evangelical Christian high school student there was a morning I woke up and felt anxious that I had not fully explored all the possible objections to my faith that I could. I resolved I needed to hear out the other side, I needed to radically scrutinize all my beliefs carefully [...]
January 1997-December 1997: The first semester of my sophomore year I took predominantly theology and philosophy classes. Simultaneously I was taking both Church History I (covering church history from the time of the early church through the middle ages and stopping just before the Reformation) and a philosophy course on Augustine and Aquinas. I was [...]
I have written a number of personal posts about what I was like before I deconverted and then how things went for me when I deconverted. There is more to say about both those periods, but it is time to start explaining how I deconverted. And, philosophically, that started with my discovery of David Hume. [...]
Until recently I have always been good for an epic, massive (but always non-violent) loss of temper about 2 or 3 times a year—and a bit more often than that when I was younger or when dealing regularly with a chronically hurtful person. I think it’s been two years since I last went verbally berserk [...]
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