Here's an article about the effects of leaving one's religion. I'm living this. The video is worth watching at the end, if you're interested in the process or in the people who go through the process. I personally was vulnerable at a certain point in time to be drawn back into religion. But that time period has passed for which I'm thankful.
Amazingly, not one person came after me, which in turn reinforced my belief that it was phony and that people don't really believe it themselves or don't have the power to do anything if they did believe it. I thought, "How's that for Christian love, compassion, and family values?" It spoke louder than anything else to the ineffectiveness of the Christian religion. I eventually got past the ideas of people failing me, but I never could get past the uncertainty of the Christian God's existence.
Some might say that I just didn't try hard enough or that I was rebellious or that I am angry or that I somehow misunderstood how it was supposed to work. I know what I went through in trying to find and believe in this god. Educating myself was key. Refusing face value pulpit declarations won me my freedom from religion.
My current course is to live life as if there is no personal deity directing me. There's a freedom in this new place that is not the same as the freedom experienced in religion. Religion always had strings attached, which is not freedom at all. Now there are none.
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