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"I Was a Professional Christian" - Why Rhett McLaughlin Stopped Believing (youtu.be)

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Short conversation clip from a larger discussion about how Rhett lost his faith.

Watch the full episode now on Substack: https://www.alexoconnor.com/p/rhett-mclaughlin-explains-why-heTo donate to my PayPal (thank you): http://www.paypal.m...

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[–] GlassHalfHopeful 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This a great interview.

Being brave enough to be wrong about something so fundamental is no small feat. In this clip, what he describes briefly at the end regarding his wife's reaction is just the tip of the iceberg.

For people so deeply entrenched in ideologies and worldviews such as these, the ramifications of accepting being wrong and pivoting can be devastating to marriages, familial relations, communities, careers, and more.

My heart goes out to those wading through those waters, especially those gathering the courage to shed the falsehoods at great cost. 💜

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I cannot imagine already being married and going through that tectonic of a shift of worldview. I had pretty much figured out I couldn't be Christian by the time I got to college and met the woman who would become my wife. She was still very strongly Christian, and I was okay with that and didn't push anything. I'm just a naturally curious person and read a lot of nonfiction and like to talk about what I read, and she is a naturally curious person, too, so she would enjoy the conversations. And after talking about the history of philosophy and philosophical ideas and how that intersected with religion, she had a worldview-shattering realization that the concept of the soul wasn't handed down by God to early Christians, it was borrowed from non-Christian philosophy that was around at the time in roughly the same geographic area. It was another in a long line of philosophical diffusion of ideas that happens everywhere all the time in human history. Nothing intrinsically earth-shattering in itself to students of history, but that was her equivalent of Rhett's evolution moment.

It was devastating to her, and it took years for her to figure out who she even was after that. I think it worked out as well as it did partly because I came from the other side and had already thought through a lot of the questions (What is morality without God? What brings value to our lives without God? Etc.) and could help anchor her and prevent nihilistic spirals while she figured herself out. I can't imagine being married to someone still very much entrenched in the worldview I realized I had to abandon. I honestly think I would be terrified of how they would react: I came into my realization on my own, and so it came as an internal struggle, but now presenting this major change in myself and the way I want to lead my life to my partner, I represent in a way an external threat to their worldview and their way of life. In the face of that kind of threat, people can act drastically differently from the kind of person you have come to know them as through normal interactions. And however they react, it's going to set the course for the rest of both of your lives.

I'm going to have to watch the full interview.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Finally read the Bible?