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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like those who are saying losing faith was a relief, that you viewed God as this oppressive parent that demanded things from you and would punish you if you failed or rewarded you if you did well.  Perhaps OP, that is fundamentally how you view God as well.  That is unfortunate because that is not Christianity at all.  What you all are describing is conditional love, which is the antithesis to God's love.  In many ways, it is a good thing you all let go of that false god of conditional love.  I can indeed see how that is liberating.

But as someone who came from the other side, starting out as an atheist/agnostic, I don't think the liberation will be life-long.  You can find that it feels good to live in the moment now and enjoy the joys and sorrows of life without worrying about the judgement of God, but if you were to REALLY TRULY not believe in God, the emptiness will set in.  To look at the suffering and injustice of this world and know that there is no mercy or justice, to feel love and joy and believe that it is all just begins and ends with neurons firing in my brain, that drives people to existential crisis and madness.  Sure, you could argue that people make up religions to help themselves feel better and make sense of suffering etc.  But I can equally argue that the very fact that humans across time and space have needed to "make up" religion means that we were all born with a need for the divine, a hunger that could only have been placed there by God.

I think most Americans who say they are agnostic/atheist are really running away from their false/childhood view of god.  They are not true atheists.  True atheism does not end well. [/quote]

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