This week’s show is a Deconversion Anonymous episode.
This week’s guest is Seth. Seth was the oldest child in a large homeschooling family who attended attended mostly non-denominational churches. He was always studious and had read through the Bible multiple times before adulthood.
In high school, Seth made his faith his own and dove deeply into Youth Earth Creationism. He studied at a state university and a few years after graduation began work at The Creation Museum.
While living near the museum, Seth was introduced to a fringe religious movement he describes as “Messianic Judaism meets evangelicalism meets conspiracy theories.” In the Hebrew Roots movement, Seth discovered teachings he’d not encountered before and some doubts began to creep in.
Over the next year, Seth continued to experience conflicts between YEC and Hebrew Roots. The two ways of thinking were at odds—flat earth or round, scientific cosmology or the broken body of a leviathan?
By 2020, Seth realized he was an atheist, no longer able to convince himself to believe again.
Recommendations
Books

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Youtube

Paulogia
Viced Rhino
Godless Engineer
AcapellaSciencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqReeTV_vk



Interact
Join the Deconversion Anonymous Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/deconversion

Full episode show notes
https://gracefulatheist.com/2022/05/15/seth-deconversion-anonymous/

Secular Grace
https://gracefulatheist.com/2016/10/21/secular-grace/

Deconversion
https://gracefulatheist.com/2017/12/03/deconversion-how-to/

Deconstruction
https://gracefulatheist.com/2017/12/03/deconversion-how-to/#deconstruction/

Attribution
"Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats
https://makaihbeats.net/


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