I just found out over the past 2 or so months my wife of almost 20 years has been reading a lot about deconversion/deconstruction. There was an event about 5 years ago in which she was spiritually abused. For 22-ish+ years, she's been a daily bible reader. Then, it all stopped one day. She used to read a kids version to our 8 year old at bedtime each night, and that stopped too.
She confessed to me last night that she no longer believes in God at all. This is the first I'm hearing about things like deconstruction, but talking to my brother in law about it, it's apparently running rampant in his church, too.
Heads up patriots! I could use all the prayers you got.
Has anyone been faced with this? Has anyone been successful in stopping it? We have 6 kids and she now wants to divorce and go be free.
I’m an atheist. But I follow based principles on family, responsibility and morals. Just because a diety isn’t in my mind I’m still honorable and a good man. Just don’t believe in the gods watching me in a cloud stuff. I support religious morality being taught as well. Degenerates are ruining America and the lack of moral codes and patriotism have caused thus.
And my marriage isn't based on whether she believes or not. But it seems like she is in the process of throwing out all morality with it. I'm pretty sure my marriage is lost. But I want Christian husbands to know that this is happening.
My brother in law says in his church it's coming with feminism and anti-male anti-patriarchy stuff. I haven't seen that, yet...
Lack of morals comes from removing Christianity's prime place in society. You're a moral atheist only because other people of faith are doing the heavy lifting of prayer and sacrifice and good works and you reap the positive spillover from that. Basically, you're free-riding off the fruits of Christan morality and virtues.
A society without God can NEVER be a good and just one. We've already seen what happened in atheist Russia and China.
So how were moral societies around before christianity?
Good moral atheists do seem to miss the larger reality that their entire sense of morality, principle, and values was built by Christianity.
Morals are not only instinctual but also logical, and have to do with the laws of physics and entropy. See Spinoza's God :)