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answer boils down to this: I was sick of compartmentalizing. The
objective evidence wasn't there, nor was there really any
subjective evidence available to me other than the insistence of
my peers that they felt "His presence."  My extended
deconversion story My parents didn't attend church but we were
Christians. When I was in middle school I wanted to go to church
with my best friend. I was there to see cute boys but I'd come
home asking about Revelations and my mom told me I couldn't go
to church anymore. She never explained it, just I couldn't go.
Then, as a young adult I was having a conversation with my
boyfriend (now husband) about my grandmother being in heaven and
he asked me why I thought that. Did I just need that comfort of
her "looking down on me" or did I know she was there? What was
it? I couldn't get that question or many more that he asked out
of my head over the next couple of years and the more we talked
about it, the more unlikel