If Your God...

A day or two ago a wise Facebook and Twitter friend of mine (you know, one of those people who you know a lot of intimate detail about, live halfway around the world and you have never actually met) posted a thing on face book which said "If God needs you to kill in his name then he is an incompetent God" (or words to that effect - sorry Maja if if misquoted you a little). This is something I think some people in certain parts of the world should probably think about and it is also something I've seen commented on in other atheist discussions. It got me thinking, what else could be prefixed with "If your God"?

My Deconversion Story (or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Think for Myself)

Deconversion - that's a big, heavy sounding word isn't it? It sounds much grander than I intend this post to be. It also brings to mind images of a Damascene anti-revelation where the unGod shows up as a totally normal non-burning bush and sucks all of the faith out of me (I make no apologies for mixing up my biblical references there). That absolutely isn't what I'm going to describe here. What I am going to tell you about is my slow journey from being a simple if slightly unorthodox Christian believer to being what I am now, a quietly atheistic non-believer. As I start writing this I have no idea how long it is going to be or how long it is going to take me to write so make yourself a nice cup of tea, this might be a long one.